Re: [-empyre-] art

[Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net>]

Forget my last ill-advised outburst for the moment, or in french  
style put a line through it so we can pretend it isn't there.

The interesting question for this list  (as opposed to the other ones  
processing JB) as I see it is: if Baudrillard is more popular among  
artists than other theory readers, what does this tell us about the  
relationship between art and theoretical production?

There are some interesting questions in there perhaps about how  
theory is taught in art schools, and also the channels of theory  
circulation.

Perhaps rather than talking about Baudrillard in the negative (wasn't  
captured by academia, escaped being pinned down by discipline x,  
never fit in) it would be possible to articulate something  
distinctive about the modes of circulation his work participated in  
and expanded - Semiotext(e) a case in point as Ken suggested earlier.

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