Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: George Free <aw570-AT-freenet.toronto.on.ca> Subject: Re: Avant-Garde ??? On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, malgosia askanas wrote: > It seems to me that the problem is with the word "resistant". Resistant > to what? Resistant to "recuperation" by capitalism? Do we really care > whether capitalism does or does not "recuperate" something? It seems to me > that what is at stake is something completely different than playing > "try and recuperate that one" games with capitalism. What _is_ at stake > in this "resistance"? If we conceive of "avant-garde" as being some kind of > a machine of resistance, then we can neither build one nor recognize one > unless we understand what it is that we want to resist, and what kind of > machine would be capable of doing the job. > Hmmm... Resistance = preservation = conservativism ? A lot of anti-capitalism has a conservative implication, and is not very "avant-garde," which to me suggests actively creating an alternative, rather than trying to defend something. ...just thinking. George --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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