DadA = Nihilism?

They say so, but inherent in DaDa is a sense of whimsy as far as I can tell. Anyone smarter than me care to weigh in?

Were the nihilists in the Big Lewbowski not whimsical, in their own way?

From my own personal studies of the movement, Dada was a way to counteract the grotesqueness of the events of WWI. Cos when the world around you is that ridiculous, in what other logical direction can art go?

"i fuck you in the ass, i care about nothing".

yeah, totally whimsical.

In their own way, you ain't kiddin.

Good point, but that's what I mean. When you come to terms with the fact that the world around you is inherently ludicrous, the only logical thing is to divorce yoruself from reason. I find nihilism though to be an agressive movement. Maybe I'm missing the point. I often do.

I've never seen the movie, nor heard of it, so I don't really know.

It's about a Jedi Knight. You might like it. It's indie.

Not necessarily. The impulse to destroy what already exists so as to build something better is inherent in nihilism, and I think that's what the Dadaists were doing. Maybe not on a conscious level, though...I haven't done enough work on, say, Duchamp to know if his readymades were a conscious reevaluation of everyday objects as art, or if he just like hijinks. Or else I'm just rambling.

No, you're on point Phife, All the time Tip. My read is this, Nihilists are sort of passive agressive Anarchists, while Dadaists due to their inherent grounding in the arts are more of an aspirational movement. To be truly Dada you must hold all movements in contempt, including nihilism. Becase the only true freedom comes from true freedom.

Amen, good sir. You said it so much more eloquently than I could.

Dada...great Alice Cooper album

Verily.

Say what you want about National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.

I think I love you. Or else I'm just impressed by your Jedi knowledge of Dada. But is there really much of a difference?

Hold me?

It's not that they believed that life was inherently meaningless. They thought that the time they were living in, though, was divorced from rationality.

*Holds FridgeMagnet*

How hot is this?

Hot.

Remember, though...you have to share me with everyone else on the Silliness boards. There's enough of me to go around, though.

That's so fucking daDA though. I love it.

I'm not good at sharing, this could be where we part ways. A passionate affair though short lived.

^^^^Can I get another AMEN?

[Shit, I meant this in response to FridgeMagnet's response to the Harry Potter joke...oops.]

[Edited on May 07, 2005 by Baise]

I'm going to cry now. And smash up my toilet seat. Then I will sell it to a museum.

See what a broken heart can do for you?