Chris, though I agree with the political point of view, and I'm duly appalled by?Gaza bombings, I?find those 15 points by Badiou?to be a rather poor manifesto. To the whiteboards!
A heap of abstractions?with little pith or vigor. Abstraction I note is keyword therein. Telling.?
Finnegan
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:26:15 +1100
From: Christopher C Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Eyeless in Gaza
I find myself all the more confirmed that to be an artist today, which
is to say, be contemporary and Modernist, is to be to political. To not
only write for something that does not yet exist but to write critique
which is not limited by the finite borders of immanent critique as
handed down from Kant. Modernism concerned with only the discovery of
new forms is no modernism.
I also find myself reading Badiou's 15 thesis on art and another
article; URL as follows. Despite some differences there is general
agreement here.
http://www.lacan.com/frameXXIII7.htm
http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/110/182
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