{"id":1579693,"date":"2005-07-11T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2005\/07\/11\/LEAVING-THE-VIRTUAL-GHETTO\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T00:06:36","slug":"LEAVING-THE-VIRTUAL-GHETTO","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=1579693","title":{"rendered":"LEAVING THE VIRTUAL GHETTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/bunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/1579693\/'>Review<\/a> of :<br \/>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/www.altx.com\/manifestos\/virt-ghetto.html'>http:\/\/www.altx.com\/manifestos\/virt-ghetto.html<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/www.altx.com\/manifestos\/virt-ghetto.html'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>From<br \/>\nthe page: &#8220;Pop Culture is a Virtual Ghetto that infiltrates our minds.<br \/>\nIn this Virtual Ghetto, meaning is meaningless un-less you un-cover a<br \/>\nradically different subjectivity in which to process your own becoming.<br \/>\nThis was the PoMo dilemma (one never resolved) and Avant-Pop artists,<br \/>\nwho are just now traversing the borders of The Beyond and entering the<br \/>\ndangerous lands of Genderlessness and Degenerative Narrative, are the<br \/>\nones who are presently trying their best to create the necessary angels<br \/>\non whose wings we can find our way OUT of this virtual ghetto.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Avant-Pop artist is a nomadic voyager, a cultural terrorist, whose<br \/>\nidentity is constantly in flux (so as to elude the corporate<br \/>\nabsorption), and who secretly &#8220;becomes&#8221; something like Woman or the<br \/>\nopen-endedness of feminine imagination, reclaiming the terrain<br \/>\nvis-a-vis the enactment of subliminal postures\/gestures that sabotage<br \/>\nthe system&#8217;s rigidity. The strategy is to deterritorialize the<br \/>\nInstitutional effects so as to create a new level playing field where<br \/>\nthe action of hypermarked-up beings can once again ignite the language<br \/>\nof our spiritual unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Pop Culture is a Virtual Ghetto. This is another way of saying that our<br \/>\nMINDS have become Virtual Ghettos since that is where we have let Pop<br \/>\nCulture breed. We need to Reclaim the Imagination in such a way as to<br \/>\nsynchronize our intuitive desires with the non-linear narrative spaces<br \/>\nthey want to circulate in. Our dilemma then becomes how to make the<br \/>\nElectric real while simultaneously making the desert of our souls<br \/>\nvirtually inhabitable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Rather more optimistic than I&#8217;d want to be. Suspect it&#8217;s more just the same old same old. Would in particular look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libidomag.com\/nakedbrunch\/europorn02.html\">role of porn<\/a> in the French Revolution*.  <\/p>\n<p>What may have been radical revolution then is just wanna-be warmed up re-runs now.<\/p>\n<p>\n* Also : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libidomag.com\/nakedbrunch\/archive\/europorn01.html\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libidomag.com\/nakedbrunch\/archive\/europorn01.html\">libidomag.com\/nakedbrunch\/archive\/europorn01.html<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/url\/www.libidomag.com\/nakedbrunch\/archive\/europorn01.html\"><font color=\"#888888\" size=\"1\">[libidomag.com]<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.altx.com\/manifestos\/virt-ghetto.html From the page: &#8220;Pop Culture is a Virtual Ghetto that infiltrates our minds. In this Virtual Ghetto, meaning is meaningless un-less you un-cover a radically different subjectivity in which to process your own becoming. 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