Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:24:35 +0200 (METDST)
From: jnech-AT-imaginet.fr (NECHVATAL Joseph)
Subject: Re: Moholy-Nagy


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>        This intellectual/cultural stance is still quite radical
>today--and I think that there's a lot to be learned from it. Many
>intellectuals are still uncomfortable with this approach--even the
>so-called radicals (eg those touting "postmodernism"). The latter tend to
>miss the revolutionary attempt in Moholy and others like him that involves
>an attempt to transfigure the values of technology--and see it only as a
>co-optation of some kind.

The dilemma of modernity was that it decapitated the mind from the body.

>Though they rarely see it clearly themselves,
>these falsely-radical intellectuals are merely clinging to traditional
>views of intellectual and cultural life. They would rather indulge in
>complaint and laments than actively address their situation and seek to
>transform it through their cultural/intellectual actions.

Indeed George, for:

                     Complacency is the enemy of study.
              We cannot really learn anything
      until we rid ourselves of complacency.
Our attitude towards ourselves should be
                "to be insatiable in learning" ...
                        --Mao Tse-Tung


Thanxs for your post.
Technobiomediacraticly yours,
JN

That's it in a nutshell. Vir Heroicus Sublimis!!
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