Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:45:48 -0400 From: Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: response to Brad {was Re: avant-garde failing-fortune >George wrote: > >> Can this statement really be taken seriously as a *political* >> statement? > >No. So why are you taking it that way? > >-m > It should probably be taken seriously as a political statement, but not as a program for political action -- for it does in its own manner address some aspects of the economy of power as it manifested itself in Germany in the 1920's and 30's -- it also represents an ideological stance both in its absurdist nihilism as well as what might be taken as its impotence -- its political content therefore resides in what it reflects rather than the analysis or lacxk of it might be premised on -- in the same way a spontaneous riot or a racist statement must be taken as a serious political statement. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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