sukenick-avant-garde

September 22, 2024

I don’t think the avant-garde applies in this country, anyhow. I think it’s a whole different kind of thing that goes on here. Because the continental avant-garde was, first of all, elitist. It depended on the existence of a literary class, which we don’t have here, not in the same sense as you have there. It implies a militant approach, it implies leaders and followers. What we have here is much more diffuse throughout the country at large.

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“We’re desperate for excitement of some kind. That’s the drawback to living in an entertainment culture — the entertainment begins to pall after a while. It’s like spending too long at a theme park — you begin to long to get out of it. And when you realize that there’s nowhere to get out to, that it’s all like this, that the theme park now circles the planet and that’s all there is — that makes for desperation.”

J. G. Ballard

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