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pour do car glo seek sin t ed. proof
car jam

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a la per favore de cultus yeux fait accompli
desense
sa sa (ba) seperate (ba) ici la'
the internet is shite

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If, like me an app. is work then
you are a powerful subjectivity ought
to be caught counting remedies
arbitrary and implicitly stupid

a trace of potency by proxy (policy)
shards of the Western empire (defines)
like an insane history reeling (humanness)
before your eyes (fearfully)

Counter-slippage, your body its
resonant subjectivity, animalistic beauty and
a crime of movement
resolves democracy

powerful and beautiful you confine
such personal activities to the Internet
and espouse its freedoms
as corporeal yet

slippage contracts by spaces improbable
money is driven and is parried by the actual
your finger is free by a lonely individuality
to touch your vagina

and by this intense
a sex for the sexless

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Avant-Gardism at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Avant-gardism does not sit well in a captalist landscape, where art (the arts?) are measured (athough, as yet not invariably so) by their potential to make money or literally, at the point of sale.

Originality is not dead, after Modernism, only an idiot would believe that new ideas are completly dependent upon the whim of government or the resultant, mediocracy of capitalism. However, the nature of originality or avant-gardism has changed.

Far from the romantic introspection of Modernity, where the West defined "newness" in relation to Western ideas/thought, we now have to define avant-gardism in terms of an increasingly global arena. We in the West cannot deem art to be of intellectual and cultural value when we are exposed to a global culture, and we have yet to understand cultures that are new to us. Indeed, who is to say that, for example, Amazonian tribes or Brazilian people shouldn't see art through their intellectual/cultural values and prescribe values that art from all over the world should confom to, to be considered worthy of possessing intrinsic value?

Evidently, today's Avant-Garde is the meshing of Global cultures via new and informative ways. This leads towards a state of Global art, where ideally, art (or the arts) can be deemed to be of value because arts practitioners, historians and audiences from around the globe can find value in art works.

As cultures shift toward globalism, the effect upon intellectual thought, politics and economies may be startling. For sure, life will never be the same again!


Simon
2010

Article originally posted on the "New Renaissance group" on Flickr.