Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:43:20 -0700
Subject: (no subject)


tucson is the best place in arizona besides bisbee & jerome, which are
really small.

Be a real cowboy and stay at copper queen in douglas, bisbee. Hotel
Congress, someplace secret, can show,
 major old missile bomb stockpile/..  i think they're empty. saw two years
ago. walk along ther tracks and fences.  into the industrial yard

is the perfect fuzzy picture.

Of course you're back home already.  go to casino on indian reserve.  
stripe shirts win money.

>From ----AT-is2.nyu.edu Mon Mar 27 06:44:17 2000 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000
12:22:03 -0500 Reply-To: avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu To:
avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Re: Re ;-)

My only complaint concerning b/rad is that the positin he has set for
himself is that in order that he be right everyone else has to be wrong --
and in being wrong we are sniveling cowards because we do not embrace his
truth -- as to his truth it is the same old modernist -- claim to a
decontextualized belief in the great leveling of technology in which
everything is fine and good as long as there are no standars by which to
define fine and good, or atleast none other than his.  it partakes of the
laissez fair capitalism of e-commerce in which there are no goods or
services just the promise of them.  Within this there is only a commitment
to embrace the phantasmagoric social formations that lies beyond any
possible utopian reforms other than its acceptance.  The condition that
this logic confirms or perhaps manifests is that of the collapse of the
imagined into "the real", binding us to late capitalism ideological
commitment to the flow of goods, services and events as cultural spectacle
therefore forming the rationalizing structures of a cultural symbollic.  
In other words an "authentic" premised on synthetic experience and none
other is now possible and real without announcing its instrumental
perversion? That is Brad has lost any self-reflexivity -- self doubt his
paranoid-narcisism has made all others who do not reflect his belief his
enemy for they represent that whcih opppresses and devalues him --
consequently he accuses them of doing exactly what hehas committed himself
to authoritarianism.




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