ties to the academic system, being?
what constitutes academia?
if there are those who have no ties to academia , does
that disclude them from participating?
if academia means nonsense then i have to agree.
i have taken time off since the dissolving of the Fluxus related
sites to reflect on what this list is for, why am i (or others)
still attached to this list, and maybe why the Ancients never
seemed to take interest in the whole shebang.
Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
Barnes and Noble
myself having a less than illustriuous career in the higher
education system, i have learned some things:
school is not all that it is cracked up to be.
the majority of people i have talked to that have
degrees in varying stages and types, all seem
to think that they are above those that don't.
the majority of people i have talked to that have
degrees in varying stages and types, all seem
to think that since they have a degree, they
know more about EVERYTHING than those who
don't.
(exceptions yes, but norm, no)
as far as further academia goes, the more learned
and mostly tenured folks have either washed them-
selves clean of the I know more than you crap, or
are noticeably apologetic towards their youth and
silliness where they had such pretense and
laughably pompous attitudes towards the unlearned .
just because someone does not hold a piece of paper in
their hand, does not mean that they are idiots.
(now you sill say, I never thought that. then why even
bring academics up?)
i will bet that many people you admire have never been to
school. some, not even high school.
present day art school students are not the revolutionaries,
or the ones that move gears. they operate in a well
defined crib of modernity and affectation, subscribing
to the business and taking their place in line with knife
in tow, and Hollywood cheerfulness. burying their
heroes in their collectively produced shit, hoping that
noone will notice.
(take a trip to Hope, Idaho...he would have knocked your silly
stylings to dirt.)
as for myself, i can always go back to school and finish the
30 credits or so left, but i have gained much more
in not even relating to school, save for my best friend
working on his doctorate in Archaeology. the courses
that i have taken that have meant the most were a Gypsy
Language and Folklore course that at the time was the only
one taught besides one at Sorbonne, a Parageogrpahy class
that had us as a final project to create our own world, and
and Introduction to the Internet in 93 (92?) that was the
only one taught at all, in the days where Sun systems
were the workhorses, and everything was telnet and ftp,
with sites closing at midnight and opening in the morning.
do i take pride in the above? damn straight. does that show
the power of further schooling? hell yeah. but that was
3 courses out of many. the rest was learned by resistance
and acceptance, going hungry and going bankrupt, making
friends and inviting enemies.
("Go to the library to learn. Go to school (college) to get laid")
there are some folks here that i love talking to and exchanging thoughts
and ideas with, and some that i hold as heroes of mine and
ones that i would love to collaborate with in depth. i will be
asking for the email/snail mail addresses of you all in the next
few days, and i hope you respond. that will be the end of my
involvement with the list and with Fluxus as this list has seemingly
defined it.
there are others that i really don't care to deal with, or know
what they are up to. too much self-promotion and silly poems
that clutter my box.
(Sticks and stones... for everyone)
the Fluxus elders may have not contributed to the list/movement if they
indeed took a look at what is going on. the name of this list
should be A Collective Take On What It Might Look Like To Publish
In Wonderland.
take care of yourselves and give dope a try...
brian.
