Robotic and Synthetic Performance:

Steps Toward a Culture of Liberation
Frank Garvey 8.1.93, revised 10.31.01


I. The Autopsy
II. The Riddle
III. Two Powers Removed
IV. The Personal Expression Theory
V. The Role of the Individual in Art
VI. Design Language Theory
VII. A Method of Analysis
VIII. The Class Nature of Art
IX. The Origins of Bourgeois Realism
X. The Capitalist Epoch
XI. Industrial Capitalism
XII. The Continuity of Genres
XIII. Formalism
XIV. Constructivism
XV. The Abstract Language
XVI. The Poetry of the Senses
XVII. The Divided Space
XVIII. Classical Surrealism
XIX. 'Realism' and Animatronics
XX. The Psychology of the Slave
XXI. Weapons of Mass Distraction
XXII. Anti-Genres
XXIII. New Genres
XXIV. Mechanical Performance: Evolution, Implications
XXV. Social Surrealist Methods
XXVI. The New Epic - Liberation Cathedral

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