Guy Debord's Widow Threatens NYU Professor with Copyright Violation
Professor Is Accused of Infringing the Copyright of a Man Who Opposed
Copyright
By ANDREA L. FOSTER,
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i33/33a01603.htm
Guy Debord, a Marxist philosopher who died in 1994, was no fan of
private property. But apparently his widow is one.
Nine years ago I started thinking about the furious haste that propels people through our increasingly blurring world. Jolted by a passer-by in an empty airport I yelled "Rushing to your death?"...He looked at me quizzically and stepped onto an escalator - his stillness as the staircase carried him up was hilarious.
What is crazy below is that no "irony" is found in the folks pushing this measure - American Values (what is that?) and even more "no race based" presence in schools...except "European Civ" (which is never put forth as "white race based" trajectory) - by any logic that should be outlawed as well ;-]!
p.s. They are going to start confiscating books!
[Now that is an American Value!]
As reported by the Associated Press, Professor Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble was cleared yesterday of all charges related to the biological material found in his Buffalo, NY home four years ago. The indictment of mail and wire fraud in the improper obtaining of these specimens for his art work, which is critical of U.S. government agricultural policies, was dismissed in federal district court as "insufficient on its face."
Wendy Ewald, »Secret Games« – Collaboration with Children
28.03. - 04.07.2008
Rushing To Your Death
http://www.rushingtoyourdeath.com
To celebrate the release of our second 7" we offer both records for a limited time at a limited price of 7 euros (+ shipping)
A recent item in New York Magazine suggested that Takashi Murakami's art (currently in retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum) is so wild and crazy that it defies description. This didn't sit well with me, not only because it disparages the discipline of art criticism and the craft of its practitioners, but also because it smacks of cheap marketeering, hoping to elevate the Japanese artist to the undeserved status of demiurgic uberkunstler.
