Monday, April 27, 2009

Comment Post: PILOT # 1:: History and Theory of the Manifesto

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Janet Lyon, PILOT #1

Bartholomew Ryan, PILOT #1

3 comments:

  1. Manifesto winner at an event in the LES in the late Seventies early Eighties, first prize an old car:

    STAND UP FOR THE ART WORLD
    BEFORE THE ART WORLD
    SITS DOWN ON YOU!

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  3. nice reading of the diggers bart!

    it makes me think of the speech that robert emmet gave from the gallows at the tender young age of 25 in 1803. not exactly a manifesto but he speaks repeatedly of "insistence upon the forms," knowing the law that had condemned him to death (his father being a lawyer) better than those who condemned him.

    in this manner he was able to delay his own death for an important duration, the ellipsis of time there on the platform allowing him to speak through his own acumen, insisting upon the space to make his argument publicly, in the "public sphere"... just prior to dying... reminds me of W.E.B Dubois and those who undertook study of the forms in order to change them...

    oddly, if you read Emmet's speech, one of the most moving i've ever heard, it is a manifesto of sorts i would argue... one that inscribes itself through its diligence as well as its ardor...

    and his speech is the first i've heard to literally voice the "subaltern" as not "the other" necessarily but rather the knowing grain of dissent that exists within the prevailing heirarchy, or oustide of it, and will demand its place at the table...

    best, f

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