John Young on Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:23:40 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> The Art of the Undercommons |
Didn't Sartre surpass Kant's ego-driven judgment in Critique of Dialectical Reason and in Transcendence of the Ego surpass Husserl's blinding conceit of paramountcy? Kant is, with Husserl, no question are masterful thinkers. But masterfully, paramountly above the fray, not at all physically risky. No punishing hemlock for them. I rescued a number of neophyte artists hunkering in windowless, unsafe cellars of million-dollar lofts of megawatt artists (Serra, i.e.) who allowed the occupancy for small rent or for free, magisterially, as if housing abandoned animals. The youngsters created wondrous objects highly inappropriate for museums and galleries, many obscene, filthy, dangerous, using bizarre materials salvaged from global capital crud, so fragile they could not be moved, so prickly they could not be touched, so noisy they could not listened, so kaliedoscopic they could not be seen. So it seemed to me as I searched with flashlight and ear plugs and rubber boots and fire extinguisher to spot a wall location to chop a safe exit with stairs to the street. You may not know that artists in NYC are treated like imbecilic nobility (like leashed philosophers astroll), with special laws governing their lofts to allow regally gruesome auto-abuse to occur. These galvanic-ego-carapaces have placards blaring, no shit, "Artist in Residence." Which indicates to the cynical (there are none other in NYC) no art made here, just talk, prate, snarl about marketing and what rich cur is cash machining fine art investment. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org