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<FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Verina Gfader wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>2. In a recent talk by Gustav Metzger<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://">http://</a>www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/gustav-metzger</U></FONT>,<BR>
following the symposium Planetary Breakdown: Autonomous Infrastructures<BR>
for a Sustainable Future Symposium<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://">http://</a>www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/autonomous-infrastructure</U></FONT> (both<BR>
events were part of AV festival 2010 on "Energy"), Gustav put forward<BR>
the idea of young people's 'energy' in relation to language. In there<BR>
use of re-inventing it they introduce a certain undermining of it. <BR>
Language as such is at the heart of the future, becoming more important<BR>
than ever, but there is a need of cleansing language, to find new meanings. <BR>
Claiming a need to cleanse has to do with a hope to work against the<BR>
commercial, with a reference to the Frankfurt School, critique right in<BR>
the mainstream. <BR>
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Reference might also be made here to the work of Fernando Ortiz, particularly his book Cuban Counterpoint, in which he discusses how pidgins, vernaculars, dialects and other modes of linguistic deviation from hegemonic norms are expressions of creativity, particularly the creation of self and community.<BR>
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Simon<BR>
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Simon Biggs<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>s.biggs@<FONT COLOR="#FE7700">eca</FONT>.ac.uk <a href="simon@littlepig.org.uk">simon@littlepig.org.uk</a> Skype: simonbiggsuk <a href="http://">http://</a>www.littlepig.org.uk/<BR>
Research Professor <FONT COLOR="#FD7600">edinburgh college of art </FONT><a href="http://">http://</a>www.<FONT COLOR="#FE7700">eca</FONT>.ac.uk/<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>C</B></FONT>reative <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>I</B></FONT>nterdisciplinary <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>R</B></FONT>esearch into <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>C</B></FONT>o<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>L</B></FONT>laborative <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>E</B></FONT>nvironments <a href="http://">http://</a>www.<FONT COLOR="#FD7600">eca</FONT>.ac.uk/circle/<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>E</B></FONT>lectronic <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>L</B></FONT>iterature as a <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>M</B></FONT>odel of <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>C</B></FONT>reativity and <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>I</B></FONT>nnovation in <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>P</B></FONT>ractice <a href="http://">http://</a>www.elmcip.net/<BR>
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