Wallenstein, Rett Kopi

Today we are witnessing the rapid dissolution of an Occidential art historical narrative, which has been at the basis of most theories of the dialectical movement of form and materials. This also means the end of the traditional dialectic between mass culture and modernism, and also of the mantra of the "dissolution" of the border between them, as has been diagnosd, cherished and feared, since the Frankfurt School of the 30s. What we require is a new analysis of the situation after the break-up of the monocultures which previously contained the high-low dialectic, and whose downfall brings with it the idea of a unified public space, now mutating into proliferating sub-systems. Criticism, debates, and patterns of publishing will change as intellectual communities become less rooted in language, place, or nation.

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Todays avant-garde faces the formidable task of inventing new models of production and reception. Such an avant-garde no doubt exists, and it will be both like and unlike the one which once appeared as the "historical" avant-garde at the beginning of the previous century, since the outer forces - technologies, economies and power relations - that it works through, appropriates, and transforms are themselves in constant movement.

Citat fra Sven-Olov Wallensteins artikel "Technology, the avant-garde, and temporality" i Rett Kopis 222 siders manifest-tour de force, anbefales.