"One of the main aims of the traditional Avant-garde is to resist any opinion which is defining, there is a famous Situationist dictum: "Practice must seek its theory" and there is a phrase which Peter Buger uses: "Origionary exemplification" The traditional avant garde came from the young Hegelian point of view which supposed that history moved in a line towards a revolutionary moment after which the work and the deed would be combined, they inherited from Hegel the notion of supersession"
I shot him through the foot.
"No", I said "ThatŐs not what I want to hear".
"The failure of the Paris 68 uprising meant that the strategy of the avant garde needed to be reassessed which is why Foucault started to investigate the function and definition of power. Debord's idea of the spectacle found it's nihilistic apotheosis in the mirror image of Baudrilard simulacrum which was totalising and closed"
I shot again, this time I got his leg. I screwed up and hit an artery. I was racing against time.
"The new model of time can be seen as moving in a circular motion, like an eddy, occasionally picking up debris from the past. The vague shades of what was a vibrant and dynamic radicalism continue too reappear in part. There is no way of knowing if it will be coopted into the spectacle or whether it can provide new methods

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