File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-04-26.202, message 40


Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:53:46 -0700
From: blister <pamwil-AT-wco.com>
Subject: re:re:on the flank


>  could there be an avant-garde without reference?
>  can there be an avant-garde with reference?
   am not trying to be facetious here- but thinking
that the AV is become more a free-floating cultural
event than metaphorically spatial, as in 'ahead'.
> how much cognitivity has been passed on the way
>to an institutionalised discourse?
>  in the effort to substantiate aesthetics in the
>maw of consumptive barry bonds and seinfeld are we
>'the people' in fact finalising a bad deal reactively?
   as we compartmentalise our lives, our opinions- do we
perhaps walk by important stuff? is there in fact some
way to actually incorporate the rhetoric of popular culture into the
aspirations of a more distilled sensibility? or, indeed, are we relatively
happy with
the bifurcation of interests?
>perhaps the avant-garde is, let's say, closer to
>home. perhaps the avant-garde grows less like artaud
>and more like a sunflower (to evoke...).
>  perhaps the avant-garde is nothing like capitalism
>and the interest to carve out a patronized space but 
>rhizomatically builds nutrients to erupt appropriately
>in the interests of the many and not the few.
   yeah, yeah, ginsberg was no beckett but, even as it
might not yet be worked out, perhaps cognitive advances
are not derrida, are not baudrillard, are not even deleuze... perhaps the
entrepreneurial impulse gives one away... but no more green-light specials,
shoppers...
the social context of a developed world without interest
in the poor will rewrite the avant-garde in unattractive
colors...



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