Process will put/writ, Alison.
People are not quite with it, when I say"
Obama is a verb.
Or in Spanish, maybe, Ombamanos. As in, "Let's go."
i.e No matter how centrist he might start out, we don't want or do we need a static icon quo celebrity quo commodity.
Only 280,000 home foreclosures in the USA in October!
That comes to about one million bodies thrown out of their homes in one month..
What magic will capitalism perform to bring the houses and the bodies back up to value?
It's a mystery me and I think, as well as to the Federal and international officials and banks in charge. Dashing about - switching 'solutions' by the week. Think it is panic at the top. It is.
Or maybe there will soon be some very conscious, angry people out there realizing that that banks, 'due to stringent lending practices' should have the automatic right to evict.
Obama (verb) folks better be more than quick on their feet.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: strictures
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 1:45 PM
Isn't that general cultural practice? How perception turns into
artefact, and then commodity... the whole apparatus of the cultural
machine, neutering art as its absorbs it, rendering conventions as
invisible ideologies, giving it back as placebo. Certainly that seems
the paradigm of the unlived life to me. I see a lot of it.
And isn't the work of artists to return to perceiving as verb? Perhaps
that requires a violent decontextualisation, a ripping out of art and
meaning into a private contextualisation that resonates through the
force of its desire to exist, in the face of everything that claims it
doesn't.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> "as long as it is somehow recontextualized, revitalized"
>
> Funnily enough I was talking about hauntology and vitalism just the other
day:
>
> http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=808
>
> It might be interesting - I won't say *more* interesting - to consider
> a practice of contextualising things in such a way as to completely
> drain them of vitality, divest them of aura, treat them as artifacts
> of a culture that was totally alien and totally extinct, as indeed the
> contextualising culture will also one day be. Maybe start with the
> 60s. See how close you can get to the present day...
>
> Dominic
>
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