Date:         Tue, 19 Nov 96 03:02:23 MEZ
From: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:      Re: Transnacionala review


On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:21:36 -0400 Dick Higgins said:
>
>Nonsense. A new avant garde is generated every time people realize what
>garbage is served up by the big corporations and fashion industry. What did
>Fidel Castro say when he and his seven (was it?) survivors made it into the
>Sierra Maestre? The critical bankruptcy was on the part of academics and
>their imitators, not of the artists and thinkers; the establishment tries
>to force us into academia by eliminating all alternatives. Akll that
>happens is that academia is diluted and downgraded, taken away from its
>educational priorities, and we wind up with professors who feel like
>failures as artists and thinkers, and with waiters and waitresses in
>restaurants who are more learned and competent than those who teach the
>various subjects. In the fairly near future this will be noticed, perhaps
>as soon as the GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1997-2001?
>
Gore Vidal spoke of things like that in german TV...


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