VV(13) - Buck Fush!

[Dave Monroe]

... and, as this notion of the "avant-garde" has been
raised, as various modernist writers et al. are
alluded to throughout, one might also ask similar
questions of The Whole Sick Crew (which Foppl's Siege
Party mirrors?), the politics of partying while the
world is "split in two" (again, a mirroring), whilst
the oppressed are rising up, whilst global war once
again looms o'er the horizon, whatever.  Am reminded
of the hedonistic consumerism of postwar American
culture, not to mention the apoliticism (and thus Cold
War propaganda-friendly) postwar American art (again,
see Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of
Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the
Cold War [Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.  Chicago: U of
Chicago P, 1990]) ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
 Perhaps the comparison is
> to
> be made in their similar seeming ignorance of,
> indifference to and/or ultimate ineffectuality in
> the
> face of that "ploitcal chaos howl[ing] outside." 
> What
> are the politics of Fasching, of that "siege party,"
> here?  And what are the possible, potential, likely
> effects of said "politics"?  In South Africa or
> otherwise?  This might be the question to ask here
> ...
>  
> 
> --- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ----------
> > (235) A curious crew were thus thrown together.
> > [...] a tiny European 
> > Conclave or League of Nations, assembled here
> while
> > political chaos howled 
> > outside.
> > ----------
> > 
> > This is a very sucinct description.  We have a
> union
> > of colonizing forces at 
> > Foppl's Siege Party.  "Seiege" is really a joke
> for
> > these folks.  And so 
> > also is the implied nobility of the League of
> > Nations.  Thus Weissmann's 
> > laugh at Mondaugen's naive "The Protectorate? But
> > it's under the League of 
> > Nations"...
> 



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