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The precariousness of the symbolic economy sustaining this particular belief system, an alternative religion for atheists, requires equivalent leaps of faith. Much conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s was motivated by a desire to circumvent or subvert the commodity-based art market. Now, paradoxically, it is exactly this intellectual overlay of self-conscious resistance to the purely visual that collectors and curators desire. For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existential channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. The art world can often be opaque and downright secretive, there is status anxiety at every level. global islands project: http://bbrace.net/id.html "We fill the craters left by the bombs And once again we sing And once again we sow Because life never surrenders." -- anonymous Vietnamese poem "Nothing can be said about the sea." -- Mr Selvam, Akkrapattai, India 2004 { brad brace } <<<<< bbrace@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- . The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp:// (your-site-here!) + + + continuous hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery http://kunst.noemata.net/12hr/ News: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc alt.12hr . 12hr email subscriptions => http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html . Other | Mirror: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html Projects | Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/ | http://bbrace.net . Blog | http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/wordpress/ . IM | bbrace@unstable.nl . IRC | #bbrace . ICQ | 109352289 . SIP | bbrace@ekiga.net | registered linux user #323978 ~> I am not a victim Coercion is natural I am a messenger Freedom is artifical /:b # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org