The Avant-Garde

[elijahcraig]

Have a look at this fairly simplified sheet of terms on the avant-garde notion of aesthetics, etc. Like, dislike, you know the drill.

http://www.jahsonic.com/AvantGarde.html

That has a lot of links also, even one from Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth.

Ideas on postmodern aeshtetics? What do you think?

[The Feral Underclass]

I'm not sure if you can see this. But if you can then I recommend a book called 'Anarchism' by Sean Sheehan

Anarchism (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23050&hl=anarchism)


"Anarchist thinking and influences emerge in many different aspects of contemporary culture and history, and the author looks at instances in areas of political thought, history of ideas, philosophy, theories of education and ecology, as well as film and literary criticism. Systems of thought such as Buddhism and Taoism, art movements such as Dada and Surrealism, literary treatments of anarchist ideas in the work of Blake, Wilde, Whitman, Kafka and Eugene O’Neill, anarchism in relation to sex and psychology in the work of Reich and Fromm, as well as aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy as expressions of anarchist individualism – all these and other topics are also tackled."

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Well its an area I am quite interested in, anybody into the Situationist movement?

I plan on writing on essay about Debord soon and how Marxism is concieved in postmodern philosophy if anybody is interested. Nice link, cheers.

[Valkyrie]

Geist, you may be interested in the biography of Guy DeBord by Anselm Jappe, published by University of California Press. It's one of the only books about him and the SI translated to English from French.

His premise however, rejects DeBord as a postmodern icon and emphasis his Marxist social theory in the tradition of George Lukacs.

It pretty good and very much lays out the whole Situ theory and movement.

There's also this:
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books)
by Thomas F. McDonough

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Cheers man, great thing happened yesterday when I was in college doing bloody society work, got the new time table for next year and there is a course on Debord and the Situationist International. I was just like, happy I guess.