cowpies and roadkill are excluded from this offer
counter-cultural capitalist orthodoxy

Circa has a nice piece discussing the legal troubles of Steve Kurtz. It provides an overview of how federal law enforcement has harassed the Critical Art Ensemble member, but its strength lies in how it generalizes his problems to discuss shifting institutional attitudes toward artistic and intellectual production.


The investigation and intimidation of journalists, scientists, academics and artists may be more than just a public scape-goating of relatively powerless individuals and groups. It might instead be aimed at loudly signaling an end to the interdisciplinary, trans-national entrepreneurialism that dominated the pre-911 technological, economic, and cultural environment.


The bio notes that the piece's author Gregory Shollette has edited a volume, The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. The title certainly got my attention, since the high-art projects I find most interesting are tactical cultural interventions. The UT library doesn't have this book, so I'll ask if anyone can recommend it.

Posted by McChris at August 14, 2005 10:23 AM
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