Wow, I guess I must be Post Nothing then. Well, at least I *try* to post nothing. Sometimes it doesn't work and I have to Post Something, which is never my intention in the first place. But once I'm Post Something I feel like I'm working in a tradition or Something and the best thing to do in that event is to do Something Else and not go with my initial intention. Doing Something Else is very Fluxus I think.
Wasn't it John Cage who said "� have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry." But I ruminate... Ciao, RA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Drogyness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:34 AM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: does fluxus exist? a simplistic appraoch...., 2 > on 11/27/01 8:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Although it's always tempting to add prefixes where > > ever possible, putting "post" on wouldn't really help. > > Yes, they add to the "problem" of understanding what the root word was > originally. I just like "post-" because it doesn't describe the work > itself, it just mentions what it follows. Which doesn't help to define > either, but then that's what I was saying anyway! > > I like the abstraction that terminology can have on particular already-vague > notions... coming to a consensus seems like wishful thinking for something > like Fluxus, and to me, maybe a little contradictory! > > > To say something is post-fluxus would imply that those > > involved are thinking differently, or using different > > methods. > > Not necessarily... "post-feminism", while silly, is a term which is often > applied to the more open-ended discussions following heavy feminist > discourse in universities and academic journals. > > I've seen "post-Duchampian" used not for movements, but to describe works of > those using Duchampian concepts in a more contemporary context... > > So the term "post-" can be applied to the conditions around the works > themselves, or simply to say that people are less organised or harder to > pinpoint. > > > Now "re-" is a charming prefix, which could come in > > handy. > > I prefer "re-" to "neo-", which I've always thought was a little sil
