Re:The Last Avant-Garde
by ggm on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:15AM
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To read about the real, original Avant-Garde, I recommend "The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I" by Roger Shattuck. It's a great book about a true revolution in the arts.
The situationists were (in my personal opinion) non-productive poseurs. Too much bound in the manifesto and not equal to the times they lived in.
Perhaps to one side, at the end of the situationists time, ex-anarchist Daniel Cohn-Bendit started levering the cobblestones up to make barricades and wound up a TV pundit and Co-opeted into the state political arena of the EU. Regis Debray was critical of Situationists. Tariq Ali likewise. I don't think they were as smart, or useful as they thought.
Organised Labour movements have little need of public intellectuals, and their postures.
The situationists were (in my personal opinion) non-productive poseurs. Too much bound in the manifesto and not equal to the times they lived in.
Perhaps to one side, at the end of the situationists time, ex-anarchist Daniel Cohn-Bendit started levering the cobblestones up to make barricades and wound up a TV pundit and Co-opeted into the state political arena of the EU. Regis Debray was critical of Situationists. Tariq Ali likewise. I don't think they were as smart, or useful as they thought.
Organised Labour movements have little need of public intellectuals, and their postures.