[-empyre-] el Bano de cultura

[naxsmash]

but this poem is at issue.  does it not contradict, even in its being  
present over the jacoby quote - an over=inscription. ?

> we wrote sixteen pamphlets about iron oxide using match sticks.
> the surf ouched, the big hawk flew off the top of the tree.
> everybody who was somebody went to work, cows eaten alive.


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On May 16, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Cara Baldwin wrote:

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> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: sesshu foster <sesshu at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: sesshu foster <sesshu at earthlink.net>
> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 07:53:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> To: Cara Baldwin <feralysis at earthlink.net>
> Subject: then what?
>
> we wrote sixteen pamphlets about iron oxide using match sticks.
> the surf ouched, the big hawk flew off the top of the tree.
> everybody who was somebody went to work, cows eaten alive.
> according to SF, space shit flies on milky galaxies every day.
> imagination contends with illusion and barks, disconsolate squeak.
> body parts, you name it, they invented tags and codes: states.
> sneeze all you want to, pointed verbs sticking out of every pore.
> agriculture in california exacerbates a green edge on water-use.
> i saw something the other day, it was a woman on her cellphone.
>
> sesshu
> l.a.
>
> This message is dedicated to the small group of creators,  
> simulators, critics and promoters. That is to say, those whose  
> talent, intelligence, economic interest, prestige or stupidity  
> commit them to what is called avant-garde art. To those that come to  
> the Di Tella for their regular culture bath, to the general public.  
> The avant-garde is the intellectual movement that permanently  
> repudiates art and permanently affirms history. In this trajectory  
> of simultaneous affirmation and repudiation, art and life have  
> become so confused as to become inseparable. All of the phenomena of  
> social life have been converted into aesthetic material: fashion,  
> manufacturing, and technology, the media of mass communication, etc.  
> “Aesthetic contemplation came to an end because the aesthetic got  
> dissolved in social life.” The work of art has also ended because  
> life and the planet itself are becoming art. That is why everywhere  
> there is a necessary, bloody, and beautiful struggle for creation of  
> a new world. And the avant-garde cannot stop affirming history,  
> affirming the just, heroic violence of this struggle. The future of  
> art is not connected to the creation of works, but to the definition  
> of new concepts of life, with the artist as propagandist for these  
> concepts. “Art” has no importance; it is life that counts. Art is  
> the history of the years to come. It is the creation of the most  
> gigantic collective work in history: the conquest of the earth, the  
> conquest of freedom by and for all men.
>
> 1963 Mensaje en el Di Tella, Roberto Jacoby
>
> "To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to  
> grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above  
> all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a  
> civilization" (17-18). Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks  
> Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
>
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