The Avant-Crude Art

Individuals use resistance as a way to escape from the environment that they live in. Individuals tend to resist a certain group or system to have some sort of independence. In this sense, individuals use their imagination to create “little pockets of freedom.” Individuals are attempting to use their mind to have freedom. These attempts are to access the “vast sea of multiplicity” that allows them to feel liberated. Individuals need to overcome the environment so that they create colors in reality as well as in their dreams. Although, individuals think they are free in some sense because of refusing the ideas forced on them, these attempts have failed. Since, all attempts fail, these “little pockets of freedom” do not exist.
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Nelson states how:
“In light of the heightened state of perception conjured by Cage’s piece-its profound capacity to “return us to our senses” via an emptying our rather than an overload of it-one may begin to wonder whose interest it serves to keep us believing in, and riveted by, the mythos of this age of extremity, which focuses on knocking oneself out rather than tuning in” (Nelson 307).
Nelson shows that the avant-garde artists are not helpful because individuals can look at the art and not be aware of what is going on. Nelson suggests something in the middle of banality and brutality that can help individuals be aware of the society that they live in. The resistance of avant-garde artists does not challenge violence but promote it. Individuals do not recognize the acts of cruelty as something we should challenge because they do not understand the content behind it. The avant-garde artists want individuals to act on the images they see but many people cannot absorb the brutal images being shown to them. In addition, wars are an example of how the avant-garde artists failed to enlighten individuals. The artists wanted to escape from state violence but cruel acts continued. An

This is shown in the word proprietary because in a way Apple controls her. The secret code is something that Apple holds over her. Davidson is contradicting herself by promoting a hierarchy. This is shown in how she lists the great things about the iPod without allowing others to use the iPod. Throughout her passage, Davidson is criticizing hierarchies but in a way she is a part of a hierarchy. She is a part of an organization that tells individuals what they can and can’t do. This is shown in her encouraging individuals to buy a certain product without allowing them to think for themselves. This is done by bribing individuals so that they can get a free iPod. The resistance of her students towards hierarchies also have failed because they have accepted Davidson’s ideas instead of creating their own. In the end Davidson and her peers got the results that they were looking for, which was for “working together, and often alongside their profs they came up with far more learning apps for their iPods than anyone-even at Apple-had dreamed of” (Davidson 52). Individuals think they are resisting the hierarchies but they