Crap is a load of books

[imomus]

1. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the

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Ex-crap-olation

[jdcasten]

Re: Subversive art… I think Extrapolation of past strategies has run its course; and to be abstractly unhelpful, we should be “thinking outside the box” rather than taking things to further extremes.

Being an authentically weird human, and documenting that (and one’s weird friends) may be one avenue… my own approach (reviving clichés… esp. re: my schizophrenia) has gotten me little, in the way of progress… and “paranoia art” usually takes some one-on-one time that is hard to establish in public venues.

It seems to me that someone like Nick, who’s immersed in the contemporary Zeitgeist could do little but something contemporary. Taking it to the NXTLVL might be possible by going back a way, finding avenues that were abandoned, and picking them up… maybe extrapolating things other than “violence and sexuality” - but we’ve already had extrapolations of “refinement” (maybe with hyper-realists)… I don’t think there’s ever been a program for “what’s next” but feeling your way in and out of our times.

I think I managed to say “nothing” new here.