By Hakim Bey
ISBN-10: 1873176422
ISBN-13: 9781873176429
An impossible to resist tome from the insurrectionist theoretician, Hakim Bey. His incendiary phrases are fantastically illustrated by way of the well known college artist Freddie Baer. the result's a pleasant compilation through gifted artists. A needs to learn if you have their paintings for years. during this number of essays, Bey expounds upon his principles relating radical social reorganization and the liberation of hope. Immediatism is one other lyrical romp via highbrow corridors of spirituality and politics initially set forth in his groundbreaking booklet, TAZ. a beautiful success from this prodigious writer and scholar."A Blake Angel on Acid."—Robert Anton Wilson"Fascinating..."—William S. Burroughs"Exquisite..."—Allen Ginsberg
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What doesn't kill me makes me stronger," sneers the porcine 41 figure in its shiny top hat (mocking Nietzsche, of course, poor Nietzsche, who tried to laugh the whole nineteenth century to death, but ended up a living corpse, whose sister tied strings to his limbs to make him dance for fasdsts). There's nothing particularly mysterious o r metaphysical about the process. Circumstance, poverty, once forced Rivera to accept a commission to come to the USA & paint a mural - for Rockefeller! - the very archetypal Wall Street porker himself!
In this case the hosts will inevitably win some extra prestige. And why not? Sl ix. Gifts should not be "useful . " They should appeal to the senses. Some groups may prefer works of art, others might like home-made preserves & relishes, or gold frankincense & myrrh, or even sexual acts. Some ground rules should be agreed on. No mediation should be involved in the gift - no videotapes, tape recordings, printed material, etc. All gifts should be present at the potlatch "ceremony" - Le. no tickets to other events, no promises, no postponements.
But our goal is not mass conversion. ), in which all liberatory gestures seem to end up as mere representations & hence betrayals of themselves. We offer the chance for art which is immediately present by virtue of the fact that it can exist only in our presence. Some of us may still write novels or paint pictures, either to "make a living" or to seek out ways to redeem these forms from recuperation. But Immediatism Sidesteps both these problems. Thus it is "privileged," like all games. But we cannot for this reason alone call it involuted, turned in on itself, closed, hermetic, elitist, art for art's sake.