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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES
- Class page | What
Is Culture Jamming? | The End of the
Avant-Garde | The Product Is You
| The Medium Is The Missile | Aether Talk | Conclusions
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- THE END OF THE AVANT-GARDE
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- André Breton
- "Transform the world," said Marx; "change life,"
said Rimbaud: for us, these two watchwords are one.-- Manifestoes of
Surrealism (241).
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- Susan Suleiman
- More and more isolated politically, surrealism came to be regarded
as an "elitist" artistic movement that owed its continued existence
to the support of the very bourgeoisie it claimed to detest. Revolutionary
in its ideology and aspirations, it ended up as a luxury consumer item
on the capitalist market. ["As Is," in D. Hollier, ed., A
New History of French Literature.]
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- Philippe Sollers
- I believe that the history of the European avant-garde is over . .
. Avant-garde was a term that implied society would follow, evolve, etc.;
well, many experiences and experiments have show that, not at all, there
is a contradiction, and the people of the avant-garde find themselves in
assigned places--they are, if you will, the parrots of those in power.
[Tel quel, 1980]
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- Marcelin Pleynet
- In our time, no more transgression, no more subversion, no more rupture
. . . or rather, in my opinion, a parody of transgression, a parody of
subversion, a simulacrum, repetition of rupture."["Les Problèmes
de l'avant-garde,"Tel quel 1966.]
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- THE LEGACY OF THE AVANT-GARDE
- Punk [see Lipstick Traces]
- Culture jamming
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