HI Tim, Jeffrey,
ok, dumb was and is a poor choice of word. I'll gladly accept the
friendly amendment to simplistic.
My favorite sentence Adam's piece: "I like WIlliams, don't get me
wrong, but I do think he opened some doors that might have best been
left shut."
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On Apr 12, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> I think this is unfair cris. It's not dumb - just because it might be
> saying something you find problematic. It is simplistic, yes, but it
> does point to something a lot of people think, and I for one think,
> with regards to Baudrillard, that there is a point there to be
> answered - and maybe those of us within poetry might be in a better
> position to answer it than the art community -of which, as you know, I
> don't have high opinions. I know we won't agree on this. Modern
> artists who take the banal (their own concept of the 'everyday') and,
> via shallow knowing and tracking processes that can be learnt in 5
> minutes by 'good' students, turn it into their sacramental framed
> property, to which we have to kneel, are not going to take kindly to
> what Baudrillard says.
>
> Tim A.
>
> On 11 Apr 2010, at 16:53, cris cheek wrote:
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>> dumb piece
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>> On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote:
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>>> I thought this old blog post by Adam Fieled might start a
>>> discussion here, so here it is:
>>>
>>> "baudrillard, the cospiracy of poetry, or how to put duchamp's
>>> urinal back in the bathroom"
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>>>
>>> http://adamfieled.blogspot.com/2006/02/baudrillard-cospiracy-of-
>>> poetry-or-how.html
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