红色电视：托马斯·塞伯特 - 诗人、共产主义者、失踪者

"I will tell you the long story of two figures, one is the poet, the other one is the communist; one figure aligned to the missing people and one figure aligned to the class which up to now did not have the consciousness of its own historical mission..." In this interview/lecture, Thomas Seibert discusses the problem of the notion of avant-garde. He traces the historical roots of modern avant-garde which emerged from two different directions in the 19th century with two distinct figures: the poet -the artistic avant-garde, and the communist -the political avant-garde. He follows the convergence of these two previously separate figures in the practice of Situationists, and he further discusses the other side of the avant-garde's ideological construction, the idea of "the missing people". He finally inquires about the possibility of transcending the modern notion of avant-garde as such; a possibility of the arrival --being the poet and the communist at the same time, the one and the multiple. Thomas Seibert, born in 1957, is a philosopher living in Frankfurt, Germany. His scholarly interests are in the areas of historical materialism, existential phenomenology and poststructuralism. He is also a political journalist and activist participating in the movements against capitalist globalization, and he works for the Frankfurt-based relief and human rights organization Medico International. He is the editor of Fantômas – magazin für linke debatte und praxis, and the books he authored include Geschichtlichkeit, Nihilismus, Autonomie, Stuttgart 1995; Existenzphilosophie, Stuttgart, 1997; Existenzialismus, Hamburg 2000. This video is produced by Aras Ozgun at Pyromedia, as a part of a series called "redTV", which are interview/lectures with scholars on issues related with media, arts, politics and philosophy.