Re: <nettime> Genius 2000 now totally accepted worldwide

July 29, 2002

Type: discussion

In a message dated 7/30/2002 6:03:20 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

> The reason why humanity never seems to live up to this truth is that finding
> one's own way is hard. That personal task, not politics or revolution, is
> the true role of creativity, artistic expression and identity formation.
> But a "tactical" aesthetic of consumption, of criticism, of refusal, of
> opposition is the very opposite of this. It's a lot easier than finding
> your own way. It takes no real work at all. It's the aesthetic of a
> slave,
> a parasite, and a vandal. [8] And if you seek its monument, look around.
>
> Kermit Snelson
>
> Notes:
> [1] http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/CITDPress/Holtorf/7.4.html
> [2] Benjamin, Walter, _Illuminations_, p. 241
> [3] Jameson, Fredric, _Postmodernism_, p. x [sic]
> [4] ibid., p. 298-9
> [5] ibid., p. 257
> [6] ibid., p. 257
> [7]
> http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00096.html
> [8] True also of the Right's "tactical media", the USA's warblogs.
>
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