File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-02-19.172, message 47


Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 18:51:13 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: another minimalism


>At 01:30 AM 2/4/97 -0400, bb and sa:
>>>The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
>>>suspends identity, relations, and history.
>>>
>>>
>>Old news circa 1974, are you caught in some form of time warp?
>>
>Maybe BB is referring to "surmodernite", a la Auge, off of anthropology?
>This is a recasting of the notion, not quite 1974--
>
>But on the other hand
>
>
>Klefstad

given bb's verbiage and self involvement, I can only imagine that its stuff
that he picked up at the water cooler at WIRED ( which by the way also is
intent on reproducing the 70's packaged in a 60's psychedelic wrapping
paper)




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