Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:19:02 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: When is traditional.... avant-garde?


  Discussion of the avant-gardes (or
>Enlightenment culture in general) returns to the extent of their
>complicit excitement in the "all that is solid melts into air" of
>capital.

Thisattitude one has to remember at one time was "progressive."



 >And the extent to which any personal or collective act of
>creation is complicit in capital's permanent novelty.

Seemingly arises out of the fact that at one time the use and parodying of
capitalist modes as  interventionist forms within a cultural field that was
lagging behind the conditions of material culture were still productive.
The fact is that such practices now themselves represent the lag.




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