Dick Higgins' "Intermedia"

Dick Higgins wrote "Intermedia" as a response to what he saw as a stagnate artworld that was confining and static at a time when it should have been elastic. His writing, while making some rather questionable assumptions about the future dissentegration of class among other predictions, is nonetheless noteworthy for its call for media blending and doing away with the object. The argument he makes is strong and passionate even as it relies heavily on his own made up caricatures of artworld stereotypes.
In a sense, the writing seems to have anticipated the contemporary art world as we know it, envisioning the way for limitless interdisciplinary exploration including performance art, studies of decay, conceptual art, sound and video art, installation, interactivity, etc.