Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Timothy Druckrey   05.02.98

Subversion, identity and the impossibility of avatars to
escape intersubjectivity

The New York critic Timothy Druckrey doesn't really indicate
in the following essay what made him write it in the first
place: just before Christmas an unknown e-mail bungler
hacked his/her way in Druckrey's account and sent a series
of mails, as well faxes to some art magazines, containing a
nasty pamphlet against the net artist Heath Bunting. Shortly
afterwards Mark Amerika and Peter Weibel became victims of a
similar 'subversive act'. Since then the opinion emerged
that it was Bunting himself who generated the Bunting witch
hunt. In the following Druckrey explains - without directly
referring to the original incident - what he thinks about
such activism and does not hesitate to use heavy duty quotes
along the way, Enzensberger, Zizek, Adilkno and Sloterdijk,
to name but a few... Brilliant, demanding and so definitely
Druckrey, that it has to be a fake!