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- Dialectical Immaterialism
"cultural patterns, and..."
- Dialectical Immaterialism
"and culture despite their non-communication. ..."
- Dialectical Immaterialism
"the alien culture, which..."
- The Grooming Tool
"In Western culture, ..."
- The Grooming Tool
"philosophies and religions of many ..."
- The Grooming Tool
"cultures. ..."
- The Grooming Tool
"codification of tendencies within the subculture, regardless of ..."
- The Grooming Tool
"of subculture as eclectic as comb collecting...."
- The Irreducible Face
"outer worlds that are declared separate by the culture. The movement and ..."
- The Irreducible Face
"Both are apparently very much coded by the culture, but their ultimate ..."
- The Irreducible Face
"separation is an axiom the culture cannot do without (without declaring itself ..."
- The Elective Affinities
"of any cultural stereotype reinforces the collective distopia...."
- Art Strike
"'artist's' ability to engage with the surrounding culture. The Art ..."
- 'Credit' to Friedrich von Hardenberg
"Paranoid schizophrenia is the waking equivalent of "lucid dreaming" dreams are a parallel apprehension of conscious l..."
- 'Credit' to Friedrich von Hardenberg
"To what degree is the treatment of "schizophrenics" in terms of use-value, etc. in a given culture related to the cul..."
- Neoism 101
"not a reflection of any cultural stereotype; that is, a ..."
- Anti-Post-Actualism
"devastating critique of the Neoist Cultural Conspiracy, a ..."
- Anti-Post-Actualism
"mirror of the 'timelessness' of ..."
- Anti-Post-Actualism
"culture.' If you want a vision of the ..."
- Alienation
"'unalienated' ..."
- Alienation
"culture ..."
- Duchamp
"subculture..."
- neoism
"cultural systems believed by its followers to be eternal. ..."
- The Meaning of Specific Symbols
"program of ..."
- The Meaning of Specific Symbols
"culture ..."
- Western Cell Division
"A homogenous "Western Culture" seems to have proliferated to the point of consuming (producing) the globe. As the rat..."
- Western Cell Division
"And yet one wonders if an interstice is momentarily created with each division of cells. If ancient, mutated and new "cult..."
- Western Cell Division
"At which point would such a Viral Culture preclude the Western Cell?..."
- The neoism of Neoism
""subcultural" and..."
- The neoism of Neoism
"without the concept of the sign, for we cannot give up this cultural..."
- Beyond Seven by Nine Squares
"Foreword..."
- The Neoist Cultural Conspiracy
"The Neoist Cultural Conspiracy..."
- Om Taka Taka
"in the parched bleakness of official culture. I was kicked out of ..."
- Om Taka Taka
"Varanasi, a magical center of ancient culture (pre-partiarchal ..."
- Neoism
"replication as a non-organic form of change. In the culture of the ..."
- Neoism
"through boycotting the positions of cultural power; or replicate ..."
- Neoism
"individualism as a controlling cultural category through incorporating ..."
- Neoism
"division in the heart of contemporary culture which Neoism has the ..."
- Neoism
"attention to the replication of the products of culture themselves, ..."
- Neoism
""culture". Of all values and norms we believe the value ..."
- Neoism
"Neoism was a cultural movement influenced ..."
- From Censorship to the Art Strike
"culture which finds its justification..."
- From Censorship to the Art Strike
"culture and all other..."
- From Censorship to the Art Strike
"both in "culture" and beyond ..."
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Bibliography
" published in: The Assault on Culture (1988)..."
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
"Since then he has been active with the ..."
- A Mere Outline...
" which I associated somehow with native Australian dreamtime culture...."
- A Mere Outline...
"60. "Alternatives to Vicious Cycles: The Intermingling of Subcultures to..."
- A Mere Outline...
" "Paracultural Exhibition" but it coincidentally turned into the..."
- A Mere Outline...
" extrapolated hypothetical insect culture. They wore elaborate insect..."
- A Mere Outline...
" Dreamtime Village is a very special HyperMedia PermaCulture..."
- A Mere Outline...
" Culture). This exhibition was an ambitious presentation of a fairly..."
- A Mere Outline...
" of current youth culture, made the context seem more like wishful..."
- Total Mobile Home Cinema
"individualistic. I've used a few cultural or subcultural references but..."
- Usic the Square Root of -1
""Paracultural..."
- Usic the Square Root of -1
"gamut of "effects" & cultural references without requiring..."
- Usic the Square Root of -1
"tricks of the genre/culture reference trade as I can come up with..."
- 20 of Most Difficult Questions
"Art Strike is the total withdrawal of all cultural production for a period of 3 years. All artists will cease to distribute..."
- 20 of Most Difficult Questions
"Art Strike is an assault upon all cultural activity within the modernist and post-modernist traditions...."
- 20 of Most Difficult Questions
"To dismantle the cultural apparatus...."
- 20 of Most Difficult Questions
"Art Strike is the ceremonial mask of a movement away from competitive art and toward a culture without curators. ..."
- 20 of Most Difficult Questions
"Because the refusal of artistic identity is the only weapon left to us and the demolition of serious culture the only ..."
- About the Art Strike
"The 1990 Art Strike was called as a means of encouraging critical debate around the concept of art. While certain individuals w..."
- About the Art Strike
"Given the diversity of objects, texts, compositions, etc., which are said to be art, it seems reasonable to conclude that there..."
- About the Art Strike
""...the abolition of art can really occur in the actual time and space of a pre-revolutionary situation like that o..."
- About the Art Strike
"In Eastern Europe, where cultural work is totally professionalized, there have been successful strike actions by artists. Durin..."
- About the Art Strike
"Since the Art Strike is located in opposition to closure, there can be no theoretical summing up of the issues involved; the ti..."
- Action for a Day Without Art
"On the morning of December 1, 1991, at approximately 2:00 AM, the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers, Iowa Chapter, forced a..."
- Apology from One Woman
"I am sorry. It has only just dawned on me how destructive the implementation of my half-baked ..."
- Artemisia for the Art Strike
" It is time to rethink our goals and objectives. Instead of clamoring for our "rightful" position as elitist cultural employees..."
- Artist Sucks
"When art participates in culture as a commodity, as it now does, it should expect no less than to be treated as such. Goebbe..."
- Artist Sucks
"Serra's egotistical bellyaching does nothing to change the facts of the case. He created a work of limited cultural value. T..."
- Artist Sucks
"The real issue is whether or not art has the responsibility to address the concerns of its culture. Modernist and Postmodern..."
- Artists as Victims of Tourett
"Artists. Can they help it? Are they possessed with the uncontrollable urge to create, or is this simply a pose designed to m..."
- Art Strike 1990-1993
"Unlike Gustav Metzger's Art Strike of 1977 to 1980, the purpose is not to destroy those institutions which might be perceive..."
- Art Strike 1990-1993
"Art Strike will fail for many reasons, not the least of which is that it's a bad idea. But Art Strike raises a number of questi..."
- Art Strike as Art
"The participants have no delusions about their (non-)action and yet, in the imagination the ramifications of Art Strike are ..."
- Art Strike as Art
"Since Art Strike is art, during Art Strike, Art Strike itself won't be possible. Conceptual art in the wake of Art Strike wo..."
- Art Strike Bibliography
"Home, Stewart. The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Cla..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"There are many ways in which it's possible to deal with the Art Strike. For instance, it's been explained as a conceptual art ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"Early in 1989, a year before the Art Strike began, I wrote that, "the time for theorising the Art Strike will be after ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"You've probably gathered by now that I'm unwilling to nail the Art Strike down. I've no wish to provide some monolithic theo..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"By April, 1985, I was feeling frustrated. Neoism was a dead end. As a vehicle for "my"..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"It's been suggested by a number of people that the Art Strike was simply a career move and/or a publicity stunt on my part. ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"The earliest propaganda I produced to promote the 1990 Art Strike was a straight plagiarism of ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"The various Festivals of Plagiarism were radically different from any of the Neoist ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"During the summer of 1989, the underground was awash with Art Strike propaganda. By the end of the year, the Art Strike was ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"Given the number of scabs who ignored the 1990-1993 moratorium of cultural production, it's perhaps extraordinary that I can..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"It hardly needs stating that 1992 was by far and away the best year of the Art Strike, as the obituary columns of the intern..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"However, the Art Strike was more than simply an attack on high culture and at the beginning of the three-year moratorium on ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"For example, on 12 December 1989, I Þnished work on a novel entitled DeÞant Pose. However, the book wasn't publ..."
- Assessing the Art Strike
"As I've already said, I'm not interested in theorising the Art Strike. I'll leave it to my critics to sort out the mess I cr..."
- A Day Without Artists
"What started as a sincere observance of the absence from the cultural community of all the artists who have died of AIDS ha..."
- A Day Without Artists
"It is for these reasons that the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers, Iowa Chapter, has declared December 1, 1991, to be ..."
- A Day Without Museums
"What started as a sincere observance of the absence from the cultural community of all the artists who have died of AIDS ha..."
- A Day Without Museums
"It is for these reasons that the Aggressive School of Cultural Workers, Iowa Chapter, has declared December 1, 1991, to be ..."
- A Day Without Museums
"The Aggressive School of Cultural Workers, Iowa Chapter, has decided that this year it is time to act up in the face of the..."
- A Personal Statement
"Nevertheless, there is without doubt much to deplore, and so to criticize, in the present sate of arts, culture and civiliza..."
- A Response to the FAP
"The whole point about the Art Strike 1990-1993 is that it is a means of intensifying the class struggle within in the cultur..."
- Blowing the Strike
"The art strikers have emerged out of a tradition of avant-garde culture which has recognised these problems and continually ..."
- Blowing the Strike
"Thus the Dadaists watched their anti-art works being categorised as works of art, and aimed their whole project at the evasi..."
- Blowing the Strike
"The Dadaists left a legacy which has indeed been recuperated in the form of commodi ed works of art, the use of their techni..."
- Blowing the Strike
"Expressing their rejection of this view in different ways, the Dadaists, Surrealists and Situationists worked for the collap..."
- Blowing the Strike
"Anyone who does refuse to be creative for the three years of the Art Strike will be less hypocritical than Baudrillard but n..."
- Blowing the Strike
"If there is one characteristic of capitalism we may be sure of, it is that nothing can escape it. But faced with an impossib..."
- Broken Promises
"My position on the Art Strike (i.e.: one white boy's knee-jerk materialist analysis): it seems to me that easy access to the me..."
- Broken Promises
"In reaction to the hierarchical control system in the mass-mediated dominant "art" culture, some confused ideas appear in th..."
- Broken Promises
"I think of that process (people learning to think for themselves) as revolutionary. Likewise, it's revolutionary when folks ..."
- Manifesto of Counterrevol Communism
""scientific thought" present in "revolutionary" culture. Science is a ..."
- Manifesto of Counterrevol Communism
"cultures. ..."
- Critique of the Art Strike
"In contrast, the current (second) Art Strike was planned as a political resistance and not as an economic strike. But a resi..."
- Critique of Art Strike
"I visited some artist friends in Kracow and Wroclaw a year and a half after the takeover, and this underground activity had ..."
- Critique of Art Strike
"I think this feature of the human being and the nature of creativity wasn't taken into consideration in the present art stri..."
- Critique of Art Strike
"It seems that for Stewart Home, the feasibility of a strike is of minor importance. He postula..."
- Critique of Art Strike
"The various forms for such a negation that Stewart Home proposes (multiple names, plagiarism, ..."
- Critique of Art Strike
"Another question is: to what extent was Stewart Home aware of the fact that he himself with th..."
- Critique of Neoism
"Neoism spread rapidly throughout North America and Europe precisely because its failings match tho..."
- Culture Under Fire
"Blast artists until they finally put away their egos along with their crumbling portfolios and realize that collective and ..."
- Culture Under Fire
"Blast the whole bunch of artists rushing over to the new bohemia in the Eastern Bloc with their travelling exhibits and per..."
- Culture Under Fire
"If I was cultural czar I would declare a war for culture and I'd call it "A Thousand Points of Propaganda." And these are so..."
- Culture Under Fire
"Set up decentralized Propaganda Combat Units that can quickly mount a cultural response to local and national incidents of c..."
- Culture Under Fire
"Explore the potential and use in new ways all the other available duplicative technologies in this cultural offensive: fax, ..."
- Dangers of Cockteasing
"What is more difficult to possess becomes more desirable, more fashionable. An object which refuses to become duplicated become..."
- Dear Governor Cuomo
"Do you intend to issue a public statement of alliance with the Art Strike? Would such a statement include a thorough denunci..."
- Demolish Serious Culture
"DEMOLISH SERIOUS CULTURE..."
- Demolish Serious Culture
"The importance of the Art Strike lies not in its feasibility but in the possibilities it opens up for intensifying the war b..."
- Entire Population
"It wouldn't bother me as long as I knew everyone stopped creating - and not just because everyone else was doing it, but becaus..."
- Entire Population
"No. I support what the art strike has to do to protect our cultural progress. If any Art Strike Action Committee were to call o..."
- Four Billion People
"There will be an empty space left by the Art Strike as a comprehensive order binding everything, the social consensus will b..."
- Four Billion People
"The Art Strike in its honesty, says about itself that in its state of exhaustion it is not able to put forward values. It ca..."
- Four Billion People
"The Art Strike opposes the logical way of mind which has led to this cultural devastation. The Art Strike will be a resoundi..."
- Hints from Heloise
"Dear Jaded: You apparently still cling to the myth that the artist "must" create in order to "survive"...."
- Hints from Heloise
"Creative energies can be channeled into any activity you can imagine. Imagine it now: this will take you some distance towar..."
- Hints from Heloise
"Those objects which are the products of human invention need not be branded with the term "art" to be valued and respected a..."
- Hints from Heloise
"Heloïse says: Right you are, Eager! Simply making this challenge goes a long way towards taking ap..."
- Immediatism
"Therefore, as artists and "cultural workers" who have no intention of giving up activity in our chosen media, we neverthele..."
- Institutional Avant-garde
"But in 1990, as these conspicuous announcements demonstrate, corporate America has few qualms about endorsing most major-lea..."
- Institutional Avant-garde
"Convinced as firmly as ever that the taste of our time has been determined by the imperatives of the Culture Industry, YAWN ..."
- Institutional Avant-garde
"In 1990 "avant-garde" means something closer to being the first on the block to wear a Batman T-shirt than it does to invent..."
- Institutional Avant-garde
"In the last century the marriage of business and art has produced a vast pan-media celebration of the folkways of Capitalism..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
"Karen Eliot is not a specific, or identifiable, human being. It is a name adopted by a variety o..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
"KE: Well, the Art Strike is not a good idea. It's a bad idea from the point of view of anyone trying to mak..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
"KE: We've had endless discussions about the appropriateness of the term 'strike', about its efficacy in thi..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
"KE: It probably is a bad idea if one conceives of it as taking the shape of the classic proletarian strike ..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
" However I'm not trying to suggest that art is a mere appendage of economics. Anyone with half a brain can see that there i..."
- Karen Eliot Interview
"KE: Yes, artists are one group our activities are intended to demoralize. There's an attitude among artists..."
- Last Gasp of ASAC MD
"agitation and debate over "political" and "cultural" questions. ..."
- Last Gasp of ASAC MD
"cultural events (of course, in a certain sense the strike is a ..."
- Last Gasp of ASAC MD
""cultural event", albeit one which reverses the values put forth by ..."
- Last Gasp of ASAC MD
"nearly all other "culture"). The most typical formation is to see ..."
- Let's Go Bowling with the Art Strike
"Art Strike is a negative power feeding on the despair experienced from time to time by those who have chosen not to join the..."
- Letters to YAWN 26
"YAWN agrees: It certainly is true that being part of a small esoteric group seems a rather effective way of accomplishing nothi..."
- Letters to YAWN 6
"The Art Strike will fail for many reasons, not the least of which is that it's a bad idea. As a bad idea, its chief objectiv..."
- Merits of Graffiti
"Street scratchings and scrawlings have value beyond their immediate property reduction value (an attack on the physical propert..."
- Metzger's Art Strike
"The refusal to labour is the chief weapon of workers fighting the system; artists can use the same weapon. To bring down the..."
- Millions Spent
"to keep the population of the Western Alliance passive and bored. In the arena of opiation, "security" is sold by the uneasy st..."
- Negation of Subversion
"which defines culture...."
- Nietzsche Quote
""Against all this the cultural worker has only one great remedy: I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without revolt which..."
- No Custom Culture
"[Art Strike 1990-1993]No Custom Culture..."
- No Custom Culture
"The corporate establishment teases us with cassette recorders and VCRs, suggesting that we have free choice that we can create ..."
- No Federal Culture
" no federal culture..."
- No Federal Culture
"No Federal Culture..."
- No Federal Culture
"The most usual way to see this "controversy" is to see it as censorship. That this is not the case eludes many people, espec..."
- No Federal Culture
"The real danger is that any cultural worker who accepts NEA grant money by definition becomes part of an Official Federal Cu..."
- No Federal Culture
"What we've seen with this "NEA Controversy" is an overt attempt to strengthen Federal Culture through the method of forcing ..."
- No Theoretical Summing Up
"The Art Strike is located against closure, and yet, from an "individualist perspective," it has numerous parallels with the "fi..."
- No Theoretical Summing Up
"Since the Art Strike is so clearly located in opposition to closure (as well as philosophy, "death," etc.), there can be no ..."
- Oblique Film of Experts
"The recent decision in the Mapplethorpe case involving the Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie, raises ..."
- Oblique Film of Experts
"Art is a kind of cultural dialect. It is a system of received signs, syntax and assumptions by which any object, act, or ide..."
- Oblique Film of Experts
"Art is, then, the meaning put into an ordered system of these signs. This meaning is, at base, a function of the context in ..."
- Oblique Film of Experts
"For some, many Art Strikers in particular, Art is also part of a spectacular and indispensable decoration of estranged cultu..."
- Oblique Film of Experts
"The question as to whether a work, or idea, or product is Art or pornography is itself a kind of censorship. To call one per..."
- Out of Culture
"Out of Culture and Into the World..."
- Out of Culture
"After December 31 of this year, there won't be any more poetry readings. Nobody will write poetry. Nobody will print pictures o..."
- Plagiarism made Easy
"Plagiarism(R) in late capitalist society articulates a semi-conscious cultural condition: namely, that there is 'nothing left t..."
- Pleasures of Neutrality
" Because we have reached a point in the "progress" of our culture in which it is socially viable to suggest that we have reache..."
- Plea from ASAC Eire
"I write to ask for your support for the Global Art Strike 1990-1993. This strike, first suggested by ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
" For some time now, there has been a momentum of dissident culture, ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"various aspects of dominant culture. These attitudes can be ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
""high" and "low" culture, and received identities. These elements of ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"to undermine the idea of identity or ownership in culture. At the same ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"mainstream politics and culture, and perhaps also for reasons which ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"outgrowth of the Neoist Apartment Festivals, collective events which themselves plagiarized the ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"of autonomy and power in culture. In the same way that explicit ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"attitudes through culture, by exposing the possibility of ..."
- Proletarian Posturing
"will no longer engage in discourse about culture at all. ..."
- Psychology Inside Out
"Cultures draw lines to separate the inside from the outside of themselves. The magical pentagram that an adept Faustian magicia..."
- Psychology Inside Out
"The distinction between psychotherapy and mysticism is a symbolic wall. It is a line drawn that makes spirituality circumspe..."
- Quitting Time
"The Art Strike is a Moment of Art; the logical terminus of a trajectory begun when artists began alienating themselves from ..."
- Quitting Time
"Analysis of the Art Strike goes on and on. We cannot live in a world with an Art Strike without speaking about it. It behoov..."
- Real Life
"The mass culture industry has much to gain from having entire populations engaged in futile quests. The cycle of production ..."
- Real Life
"What's at stake in this is our own ability to listen to ourselves. We need to acquire the ability to shut out many external ..."
- Remarks to Bob Black
"Bob Black, in his essay "On the Art Strike" (Artpaper, Vol. 9 No. 4, p. 9-10) raises some strong arguments support..."
- Response to Questions
"AN END TO COMMODITY CULTURE..."
- Sentence for the Culture Industry
"A Sentence for the Culture Industry..."
- Sentence for the Culture Industry
"A Sentence for the Culture Industry..."
- Social Revolution
"contains all the possibilities of culture, realized rather than depicted. Culture, in its current forms, serves either to oppre..."
- Statement Regarding
"The serious culture hardly exists here. It is repressed by the primitive, peasant culture, so our aim is to develop and sup..."
- Strike Back
"Mr. Gogola obviously has little comprehension of what little Art Strike material he has apparently read. The Art Strike's aim i..."
- Strike Back
"In addition, it is certainly the case that compliance with the Art Strike is nearly universal: most people do not make and ..."
- Strike Within Strike
"The art "world" is completely pervaded with this attitude, transfixed as it is by a culture it imagines it can successfully ..."
- Strike Within Strike
"But to think in this way-that is, to imagine "art" as an objectified product or object or event which I can control and with..."
- Struck by the Art Strike
"Collaborate like mad! Let's interconnect all networks. Everyone knows someone with some special interest. Let's tie them tog..."
- Student Art Strike
"YAWN staged an infiltration of the event by passing out copies of the leaflet reprod..."
- Student Art Strike
"When art students are no longer nurtured by the sheltering womb of academia and are forced to confront the real, challenging..."
- Supercession of the Art Strike
"If one performs the simple act of disengaging from the incredibly significant implications being generated internally by the..."
- Supercession of the Art Strike
"It's now time for all you Art Strikers to expand your horizons. Creativity is not being controlled by serious culture. Creat..."
- The Abolition of Art
"The primary function of the "abolition of art" is to destroy all the cultural mythologies whereby the powers-that-be crystal..."
- The Abolition of Art
"Let us have no illusions about it: most "art critics" are going to carry on as if art were not abolished, as if art couldn't..."
- The Release of Soul
"Conversely, nothing new that shocks consensual sensibilities will be accepted as "true" art by the guardians of contemporary..."
- The Release of Soul
"The appreciation of art is, indeed, purely subjective. The "best" art, in terms of cultural acceptability, is that which can..."
- The Release of Soul
"Precisely! "Reasonable sensibilities" are often as not simply bad habits of thought. Being habits, they cannot be argued for..."
- Turn off the Lite
"The American middle class (don't quibble; you know what I mean) falls naturally into opposite but complementary factions: Th..."
- Turn off the Lite
"Our culture, choking on its own pollutants, cries out (like the dying Goethe) for "More lite!"- as if their bland weightles..."
- What Makes the Art Strike a Bad Idea
"The Art Strike (1990-1993) was not a call to immediate action, but a process that has taken and will take years to accomplis..."
- What Makes the Art Strike a Bad Idea
"The other antecedent to the Art Strike was the development (apparently simultaneously conceived in different parts of the wo..."
- What Makes the Art Strike a Bad Idea
""The Art Strike will fail because it is a bad idea." That is one of the i..."
- When Censorship works
"Don't fool yourself into thinking that this, or anything else you are exposed to, is "uncensored". The cynical and naive hacks ..."
- Why Bother with Propaganda
"Precisely because of the free reign that they feel they have been allowed, artists are able to fine-tune the order of appear..."
- Why Bother with Propaganda
"We live in the most highly aestheticized point in history; adverts, TV, music, everything redesigned and repackaged with rab..."
- Why Bother with Propaganda
"The voluntary shifting of roles can be fun, allowing for play, but then why only three years? And why do people have to do i..."