Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 17:15:48 EDT From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas) Subject: Re: the avant-garde Beast of Eden asks: > What, in your book, constitutes a true enemy of the status quo? I don't > know of any real revolutionaries these days. I don't have a good answer; which is exactly why I would like this discussion to really dig into these issues. It is probably not a matter of "revolution" but of effective resistance. (Resistance against what, precisely? That's a good question.) In my book, what is of value is an un-assimilability into the system, an uncooptability. Bey's examples of negative and positive refusals (in "The Will to Power as Disappearance section) are interesting: often the proposed refusal of cooperation with one branch of the system consists of choosing to cooperate with another branch. I share Gordon's predilection for "cunning, exile and silence"; Bey's fondness for grand gestures, mythic roots, nostalgia and the sound of his own voice makes me suspicious. - malgosia ------------------
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