>
> now we're talking the straight dope: can "art" outgrow its' cultishness,
> narcissisms-of-minor-difference, and actually "do something" ? Well, it is
> easily arguable that some art, at least, IS doing something by just being
the ambition of the emerAgency
(it is an idea and a project:
the Project for a New Consultancy).
RELAYs
Psychoanalysis did not exist as an institution at one time; its
inventors appropriated the materials and practices of arts and letters
(story telling, dream visions, poetic discourse in all its styles)
reformulated in the institutional frame of instrumental medicine (Freud's
achievement). Art is doing something AS clinical therapeutics.
Advertising did not exist as an instituiton at one time; its inventors
appropriated the materials and practices of arts and letters, reforumlated
in the institutional frame of business.
The emerAgency did not exist as an institution at one time; its
inventors appropriated the materials and practices of arts and letters,
reformulated in the institutional frame of consulting. "Now" (when?) the
City Commission is determined to repair the potholes of the heart, attend
to the infrastructure of desire, notice the virtual reality of history
redlined by the old (unemployed) consultants.
Such an account will have been written in the annals of electracy, if
someone undertakes this project.
for the emerAgency
Greg Ulmer
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