File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1994/avant-garde_14Apr.94, message 16


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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