[D-G] How does one know when a 'revolutionary' medium has run itscourse?

[Gondo -Minnie]

Do you have news of Liza, is she with you at this
moment?

(see my progress in English)
--- joan carol urquhart <jcu at execulink.com> wrote:

> 
> The medium is just a tool.
> It's usefulness or relevance always recycles.
> 
> I am interested in the how these two men wrote
> together.
> What was that dynamic? And am not sure if anything
> has been
> written about this.
> 
> But to respond to your post,
> if all it would take is
> "the right post to send us shooting along a witch's
> line".
>  why not give it a try and find out.
> 
> j
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "sid littlefield" <falsedeity at lycos.com>
> To:
> <deleuze-guattari-driftline.org at lists.driftline.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:26 PM
> Subject: [D-G] How does one know when a
> 'revolutionary' medium has run
> itscourse?
> 
> 
> The question is how one is to determine whether a
> medium can still be
> considered revolutionary or not. Is it possible for
> a revolutionary artform
> to no longer be able to produce interesting
> thoughts.
> 
> I speak here of two examples. If one looks at Jazz
> (and ignores Adorno's sad
> attempt to understand/defeat it) one can see the
> revolutionary importance it
> played, in music but also literature (the beats)
> etc. But it is difficult to
> see how Jazz can still play this role, especially
> given its own popularity
> and the lack of inspiring acts. So, is it exhausted,
> is such a thing
> possible.
> 
> The other example is our own list. I have been a
> member for a while and have
> seen the floods and the famines. It seems now that
> this list has run its
> course and is exhausted, or even dead. And while we
> may say that there is a
> real lack of interest it is also true everytime
> something gets started it is
> quickly shot down by the non-sense that floods the
> list (Although I am
> impressed that we a monkey and a galactic bounty
> hunter participating, it
> does not make the interventions any easier). Is this
> list exhausted or dead?
> Is it simply waiting for the right post to send us
> "shooting along a witch's
> line"? Can a form be brought back from the edge of
> obscurity?
> 
> This question is larger than my interest in Jazz and
> our interest in this
> list. It is a political question that the left is
> coming to grips with and
> that this list has now to ask itself.
> 
> sid
> 
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