Manufacturing Dissent Since 1996
New interviews throughout the week

The Avant - Garde Economy And Its Double

Artaud

It is an avant-garde stairway, refusing to answer the pedestrian’s desire, not out of spite, but from the simple instinct to be itself. It owes you no explanation, no more than it owes you its utility. It owes you nothing. It exists in defiance of humanity’s petty needs.

To elaborately fail on purpose is the new art of misrule. Half measures as official policy are a cruel, theatrical way for the stewards of society to resign themselves to incompetence and defeat.

Read the transcript here:

Share Tweet Send

 

Dorchen
Guest

Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

Related Interviews
Jeff Dorchen
Sep 13 2023
Rockin the casbah

Memories of Morocco

Jeff Dorchen
Sep 6 2023
Airline safety

Dogwhistling Through the Sky

Jeff Dorchen
Aug 30 2023
Miserable felk

The Miserable Felk

Jeff Dorchen
Aug 23 2023
Perseid michael

Meet the Perseids

More with Jeff Dorchen
Jeff Dorchen
Jul 26 2023
Space dork

Dare to Be Aggressively Humble

Jeff Dorchen
May 24 2023
Three loop ouroboros

The Three-ring Vicious Circus

Jeff Dorchen
May 10 2023
Waco

Reasons To Believe!

Jeff Dorchen
May 3 2023
Gladiator

A Little Free Advice

Jeff Dorchen
Apr 19 2023
Alien wiener

Alien Inconvenience

Jeff Dorchen
Apr 12 2023
People weren t there

The People Who Weren't There