From: michelle phil lewis king <kinglewis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: art/capital
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:13:31 PDT


Dan,

By default Massumi defines the capitalist mode of simulation as 
limited,restricted and selective. Artistic simulation on the other hand has 
no end, is in fact (that is through everyday artistic practice ) infinite. 
(I'm using the term in an  everyway I can kind of way ).

As in your Art of Noise quote, capitalism is a limited orchestra while art 
is something else, something unknown and multiple, a noise, a murmur 
perhaps.


As with Blanchot's 'everyday' the infinite is suspect to the capitalist 
state but... and this might get close to your problem... perhaps NOW the 
everyday escape of endless artistic simulation DOES augment capitalisms mode 
of simulation and even continually overturns it... and perhaps this is how 
Neo-Capitalism actually works... The continual undermining of one kind of 
restrictive simulation by another
unfettered open artistic 'nature'. A Deleuze-Guattarian 'Black Comedy'. Art 
has never been such a powerfully disastrous force.. it's at the cutting edge 
of neo-capitalism, laughing at it.

To define 'Art' as 'Political' however is to actively create a sense of 
nostalgia for some lost political and limited artistic unity.. such a 
defined infinity would be a dead infinity. Political art is thus, by 
definition, a dead art.

But for now ,as I drift off to sleep,  for some odd reason I cling on to the 
word... animation.... re-animation.. anima..

sweet dreams,
phil.

>michelle phil lewis king wrote:
> >
> > Dear Daniel,
> >
> > Is a version of your/this problem : Is the infinite  revolutionary? ?
> >
> > Phil.

>phil,
>
>possibly... what do you mean by "the infinite"?  I think i know where
>you're going but i don't think i would have pointed there in this way,
>so I'll just ask that for now...
>
>dan
>
>--
>"...musicians must substitute for the limited variety
>of tones posessed by orchestral instruments today
>the infinite variety of tones of noises, reproduced
>with appropriate mechanisms..."
>
>	Luigi Russolo, 'The Art of Noises' (1913)
>



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