Subject: COPYRIGHT ETC.
From: alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk (ALASTAIR DICKSON)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 00:32:00 +0100



The publishing info. page at the front of Stewart Home's new pamphlet
"Conspiracies, Cover-Ups & Diversions: A collection of lies, hoaxes and
hidden truths" has a nice variation on the usual copyright sentence (e.g.
"The right of Joe Bloggs to be identified as the author of this work have
been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Patents and Designs
Act 1988"):

"Stewart Home categorically asserts his refusal to acknowledge the
legitimacy of liberal democratic discourse in any of its many
manifestations, but most particularly in relationship to the innumerable
gross and absurd notions grouped around the completely abstract concepts
of morals and rights.  The very existence of laws designed to establish
the actuality of these empty categories implies a generalised absence of
responsibility within the cultural arena, something that is also suggested
in cliches such as "the death of the author" and the "liquidation of
originality".  Over the past thirty years, the leading representatives of
international (anti-)culture have moved beyond the Deist beliefs that
chaacterise the classical avant-garde's relationship to "good taste" and
now promulgate a perspective of absolute atheism towards "art".  It is no
longer enough to want to integrate art and life, it has become necessary
to abolish the former so that we may enjoy the latter.  Just as Protestant
iconoclasm was the return of what had originally been Islamic doctrines,
but at a higher level, this new attitude which is characteristic of all
progressive cultural tendencies, marks a logical working through of the
iconoclastic theory of the spectacle and its simultaneous supercession."

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-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <alastair.dickson-AT-almac.co.uk>         
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