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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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