http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/four-dialogues-1-on-the-port-huron-statement-and-the-origin-of-artists-organizations/ Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/four-dialogues-1-on-the-port-huron-statement-and-the-origin-of-artists-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-88261 Nicotinic Acid Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:31:39 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5228#comment-88261 actually, Fidel Castro is not at all a bad man. Cuba has one of the best government medical care in the world -.;

]]> http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/four-dialogues-1-on-the-port-huron-statement-and-the-origin-of-artists-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-19979 Julian Myers Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:07:47 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5228#comment-19979 Hi Marcella, that’s a great question, and one for which I don’t have an easy or single answer. I was thinking in that moment of two fascinating, melancholic diagnoses of “The Sixties” that have been the keystones of my understanding of that historical moment: Chris Marker’s 1977 film Grin Without a Cat, and Fredric Jameson’s 1984 essay “Periodizing the Sixties.” Neither one offers much by way of a solution. I certainly agree with Renny that the overthrow of these enormous imperialist oppressions is probably the central story of the 20th century, and one that shouldn’t be downplayed. I don’t share, however, his sense of the relative triviality of reification (ant vs. elephant); and I do have in mind older political formations (anarchism, pre-Marxist socialisms, etc.) which do take place precisely on this crucial conjunction of yours: “philosophical/behavioral.”

]]> http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/08/four-dialogues-1-on-the-port-huron-statement-and-the-origin-of-artists-organizations/comment-page-1/#comment-19973 marcella Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:09:09 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=5228#comment-19973 julian, i am curious what you think would be an alternate model for the ‘hardening’, if indeed there is one at all? i have a feeling that subscribing to cultural groups or subgroups seems a sure recipe for failing regarding alternate resistant models. seems the shift would have to be a deeply philosophical/behavioral one, that would be quite hard to implement and get people to commit to.

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