i am very optimistic about alternatives :)

On 5/03/15 10:14 10PM, Randall Packer wrote:
> @Patrick >>>>>> "What if capitalism has become so ubiquitous that the
> Foucauldian system of power is so pervasive that there is nowhere to go.²
>
> I can see that it is rather futile to be an optimist on this list.
> However, I hang on to the notion there is power in words, power in art,
> power in communication, it just doesn¹t have the same kind of immediate +
> dramatic effect as a nuclear bomb. However, if you take a broader
> perspective on time + history, I think you can see that art + the artist
> has in fact changed the course of cultural and political thought, time and
> time again, however glacial it may occur.
>
> On 3/5/15, 5:19 AM, "Patrick Lichty" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> We have to speak in order to be heard.
>> Rhetorically speaking, being heard as voices of alterity predicates other
>> places than we are now/alternate worlds.  What if capitalism has become
>> so ubiquitous that the Foucauldian system of power is so pervasive that
>> there is nowhere to go.  As Rita Raley wrote, the best Tactical Media can
>> do is nip at the heels of the behemoth, and Hannah Hurr's letter to Mask
>> Magazine offers a bleak Millennialist view, which I include so, as
>> Randall mentioned, we are to learn from the younger generation.  This was
>> referred to me my Ken Wark.
>>
>> http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-demo-tape-issue/style/makes-no-difference
>>
>> I believe that one thing we are doing is attempting to locate that which
>> is specific to our time, and this might be a signpost.
>>
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