Document 1
A manifesto
[pornography for a libidinal economy]
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Entartete Aufhebung!
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A.Artaud - To Have Done With God's Judgement.
Open the so-called body and spread out all its
surfaces; not only the skin with each of its folds, wrinkles, scars, with its
great velvety planes, and contiguous to that, the scalp and its mane of hair,
the tender pubic fur, nipples, nails, hard transparent skin under the heel, the
light frills of the eyelids, set with lashes – but open and spread, expose the
labia majora, so also the labia minora with their blue network bathed in mucus,
dilate the diaphragm of the anal sphincter, longitudinally cut and flatten out
the black conduit of the rectum, then the colon, then the caecum, now a ribbon
with its surface all striated and polluted with shit; as though your
dress-maker’s scissors were opening the leg of an old pair of trousers… expose
the small intestines’ alleged interior, the jejunum, the ileum, the duodenum,
or else, at the other end, undo the mouth and its corners, pull out the tongue
at its most distant roots and split it, spread out the bat’s wings of the
palate and its damp basements, open the trachea and make it the skeleton of a
boat under construction… All these zones are joined end to end in a band which
has no back to it, a Moebius band which interests us not because it is closed,
but because it is one-sided, a Moebian skin which rather than being smooth, is
on the contrary (is this topologically possible?) covered with roughness,
corners, creases, cavities which when it passes on the ‘first’ turn will be
cavities, but perhaps on the ‘second’, lumps… The interminable band, with
variable geometry (for nothing requires that an excavation remain concave,
besides, it is inevitably convex on the ‘second’ turn, provided it lasts) has
not got two sides, but only one, and therefore neither exterior nor interior...
Jean-Francois Lyotard - Libedinal Economy
… libertarians cannot present a realistic picture of a world in which
their battle gets won and stays won. They wind up looking for ways to
push a world in which the State’s natural downhill path is to grow, back
up the hill. This prospect is Sisyphean, and it’s understandable why it
attracts so few supporters...
Mencius Moldbug.
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down.
Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The
whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into
cryptic fragments: ‘In a waste lot of wrecked cars he found the burnt
body of the white Pontiac, the nasal prepuce of LBJ, crashed
helicopters, Eichmann in drag, a dead child …’ The human body becomes
landscape: ‘A hundred-foot-long panel that seemed to represent a section
of sand dune … looking at it more closely Doctor Nathan realized that
it was an immensely magnified portion of the skin over the iliac crest
…’ This magnification of image to the point where it becomes
unrecognizable is a keynote of The Atrocity Exhibition. This is what Bob Rauschenberg is doing in art — literally blowing up
the image. Since people are made of image, this is literally an
expensive book. The human image explodes into rocks and stones and
trees: ‘The porous rock towers of Tenerife exposed the first spinal
landscape … clinker-like rock towers suspended above the silent swamp.
In the mirror of this swamp there are no reflections. Time makes no
concessions’.
Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image: ‘Each afternoon in the deserted cinema: the latent sexual content of automobile crashes … James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus … Many volunteers became convinced that the fatalities were still living and later used one or the other of the crash victims as a private focus of arousal during intercourse with the domestic partner’.
Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image: ‘Each afternoon in the deserted cinema: the latent sexual content of automobile crashes … James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus … Many volunteers became convinced that the fatalities were still living and later used one or the other of the crash victims as a private focus of arousal during intercourse with the domestic partner’.
William Burroughs, Preface to Atrocity Exhibition.
…there is a very peculiar
feeling that arises from within the body, precisely because the body is felt
under the body, the transitory organs are felt under the organization of the
fixed organs. Furthermore, this body without organs and these transitory organs
are themselves seen, in phenomena know as internal or external “autoscopia”; it
is no longer my head, but I feel myself inside a head, I see and I see myself
inside a head; or else I do not see myself in the mirror, but I feel myself in
the body that I see, and I see myself in this naked body when I am dressed.
[G. Deleuze, The Logic of
Sensation, ‘Hysteria’, P.35]
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