Re: [-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity?- so what's the subject

[saul ostrow <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>]

should we throw into the mix the post-human condition that was to
represent the end of the  fractured subjectivity of modernity and place
in its stead a  subject that is at once both fluid/ adaptable and
incapable of deluding itself into believing it is capable of acting 

Christophe Bruno wrote:
> 
> well with all this mixings in the dates of posts, it's more a postmodern
> thread now
> 
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> From: "saul ostrow" <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>
> To: <dv@vilt.net>; "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity?- so what's the subject
> 
> >I think that this thread has so far avoids the obvious -
> > post-structualism (the engine that drove the post-Modern train)
> > dis-constructed the subjects of not only of art but of the very
> > possibility of a cultural identity  -- if there was such a thing as a
> > contemporary avant garde wouldn't some aspect of its practice be the
> > construction of a viable subject - till now this thread continues to be
> > premised on a residual modernist one  in this sense if we lack the
> > ability to construct our own ideal  then modernity remains our
> > (degraded) classical period upon which all else built
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