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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Massif passagenwerk
Numen of the words,
I shake thee free!
None is worries.
I shake thee free!
None is worries.
Andy Warhol hates me.
He is too cool.
Or maybe he loves me.
Ever thought of that?
'
Massive respect
Going out to the
Warholian massif!
Acheronta movebo!
'This obscene underground, the unconscious terrain of habits, is what is really difficult to change. This is why the motto of every radical revolution is the same as the quote from Virgil that Freud chose as the epigraph for his Interpretation of Dreams: Acheronta movebo--I will move the infernal regions. Dare to disturb the underground of the unspoken underpinnings of our everyday lives!'
-S. Zizek, Violence, p. 168
-S. Zizek, Violence, p. 168
Further passages from Massif
Rehab riddims curlicue across the pampas.
Neftali ... save me now! or not.
Definitely not.
Asses gripped through panties.
Humus of earth smeared across the face.
White panties peeking-peaking out from black leggings.
I am desirous.
Curlicue chalk circles...
Buttocks so close to mine hands.
The Animal Controversy
'
The Socialist Worker (US) has been, uncharacteristically, running a series of letters in response to an article by Paul D'Amato on 'Socialism and "animal rights"'. The latest of these letters is entitled by the editors, with a horrid surety in their access to the minds of their audience, 'Our understanding of liberation'. The polemic is thus apparently closed here as "our" agreement is certain. A sad and pathetic end to the thing.
Now, what was so uncharacteristic about all the letters previous to this was their dissent from the ruling line of the SW. Precisely on account of the "minor" or "peripheral" status of the question of humans and animals, and the concurrent devaluation of argument around this issue from the the SW's ownership and management, did a welter of genuine polemic come gushing through the sluices of the SW's official text.
"Our" latest letter signifies an acknowledgement of this error on the part of the SW's ruling clique alone. It was too licentious with its private media dictatorship. If others begin questioning the value of the SW's private text then soon comes bankruptcy or, worse, revolutionary expropriation of its means of communication.
I decline to engage the actual content of "our" last letter because it is beneath criticism. It isolates a single error on a part of the righteous dissent and amplifies it unto a representation of the entire current. For shame. What an "abstraction", if you will.
And so the battle between party ruling-class and all its others rages on, if only as a "subterranean fire" perhaps. If the sluices of the animal controversy are now dammed up then we may predict yet other unforeseen openings to come.
The Socialist Worker (US) has been, uncharacteristically, running a series of letters in response to an article by Paul D'Amato on 'Socialism and "animal rights"'. The latest of these letters is entitled by the editors, with a horrid surety in their access to the minds of their audience, 'Our understanding of liberation'. The polemic is thus apparently closed here as "our" agreement is certain. A sad and pathetic end to the thing.
Now, what was so uncharacteristic about all the letters previous to this was their dissent from the ruling line of the SW. Precisely on account of the "minor" or "peripheral" status of the question of humans and animals, and the concurrent devaluation of argument around this issue from the the SW's ownership and management, did a welter of genuine polemic come gushing through the sluices of the SW's official text.
"Our" latest letter signifies an acknowledgement of this error on the part of the SW's ruling clique alone. It was too licentious with its private media dictatorship. If others begin questioning the value of the SW's private text then soon comes bankruptcy or, worse, revolutionary expropriation of its means of communication.
I decline to engage the actual content of "our" last letter because it is beneath criticism. It isolates a single error on a part of the righteous dissent and amplifies it unto a representation of the entire current. For shame. What an "abstraction", if you will.
And so the battle between party ruling-class and all its others rages on, if only as a "subterranean fire" perhaps. If the sluices of the animal controversy are now dammed up then we may predict yet other unforeseen openings to come.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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