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No discipline exists, nor aesthetic canon, except the P. C. (Political Correctness). Yes, you may find very conceptual and pretty systematic works sometimes, but I am disappointed because most of those are depending on humor or wittiness, rather than on logical inevitability.
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日本語訳は下方にあります。 --- METHOD NO. 18 (JANUARY 1, 2003) Email-Bulletin "METHOD" is a free monthly on "Method Painting, Method Poem, Method Music (Methodicist Manifesto)." Publishers are three Japanese artists, Hideki Nakazawa as a (visual) artist, Shigeru Matsui as a poet, and Masahiro Miwa as a composer. You can read the three manifestos of Methodicism at http://aloalo.co.jp/nakazawa/method/ If you do not want to receive this bulletin furthermore, contact us at nakazawa@aloalo.co.jp This issue, METHOD NO. 18, carries a text by Hideki Nakazawa and a web piece by Shigeru Matsui, and word and info by the Methodicists. The format of this bulletin has been revised from this issue. First, we stopped inviting guest artists. Secondly, we changed the issuing cycle from bimonthly to monthly. And lastly, we decreased the volume from four texts and four pieces to one text and one piece. We hope these changes will help you to read this bulletin. >>>METHODICIST'S TEXT OF THIS MONTH: Against This Spoiled Age by Hideki Nakazawa, artist Has anything changed since January 1, 2000, when we published the First Methodicist Manifesto? I dare to say "Nothing," even after the September 11, 2001. Cheap sensationalism or sensualism, for example, is still rampant in the New York's art scene. No discipline exists, nor aesthetic canon, except the P. C. (Political Correctness). Yes, you may find very conceptual and pretty systematic works sometimes, but I am disappointed because most of those are depending on humor or wittiness, rather than on logical inevitability. Postmodernism, which includes postcolonialism, is still overwhelming even today, January 1, 2003. Thus I believe the three Manifestos of Methodicism* to be still effective. Against this spoiled age, we must obey discipline which we have settled to call "method." I suppose this thought is not so queer, if anything, being universal and international. Or, you can find many examples of such world criticism in the past, e.g. neoclassicism. But this thought has an aspect of being originated in today's Japan, where most of culture surrendered to America and the West. Of course, Japan has its own tradition which Japanese people are proud of, but that is not a mirror of today's Japan. The reality is rather the cultural backwardness; to say more accurately, lack of political power in culture, especially in words. The fact is that loan words from America are tremendously increasing in every aspect of Japanese language from daily conversat
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