File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1995/avant-garde_May.95, message 27


Subject: Re:CTALK / 1971
From: alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk (ALASTAIR DICKSON)
Date: Sun, 28 May 95 10:53:00 +0100



Since my loose reference to Ctalk, a couple of people have asked what it
is.  Here's part of the intro:

"Our aim for CTALK is an experimental intellectual forum for critical
exchanges on issues related to key tendencies in contemporary culture: for
example, the emergence of the virtual class, the oscillation of
contemporary politics between a resurgent right and weakening forms of
neo-liberalism, the bursting of the bubble of tech hype with its attendant
casualties in the Silicon Valleys of the world, and the fate of the
digital body viewed from the perspectives of philosophy, cyber-theory,
electronic art, and hacker culture."

If that sounds interesting, a "s**scr*be ctalk <youraddress>" message to
<Majordomo-AT-concordia.ca>" should get you onto the list.

An aside on the supposed 1971 death of the avant-garde and perhaps on the
broader discussion: era-dating is always bound to be loose, but it should
take account of later phenomena like the Trans-Avant-Garde and Neue
Slowenische Kunst.  Here's a statement from an NSK group's manifesto: "The
Theatre of Scipion Nasica proclaims the avant-garde to be the ultimate
genuine style of the modern civilisation which is coming to an end due to
the defeat of revolutions" (cited and discussed in "The Prophetic Vision
of Neue Slowenische Kunst" by Charles Stephens, Edinburgh Review 80/81,
1988).  
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-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk>         
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