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). __________________________________________________________________ -- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland -- <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk> --- * Orator V1.14 #31 * --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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