David, Brian,
I have my doubts on whether an avant-garde is possible any more.
Firstly, we are in an attention economy where attention is the scarce and
determining resource. One of the primary means of grabbing attention is
through novelty, and any avant-garde is seen as a potential that can
Discussions querying the authenticity of the FSB dissident source do actually
matter. And comes back to Brian Holmes intervention on the 26th of Feb in which
he
argued that we should celebrate the fact that in the run up to the war instead
of trying to strategically manage the truth, the US
