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could speak suddenly
repeating each word
whilst his voice trembled
at the edge
where his skin
touched the other's skin
their surfaces churning
dough rising
written words fading
false to both their voices
ear and tongue touch
beyond all surfaces
words were sounds
both unknown to their skin
watch the march towards an idea
actualised in some dynamic commotion,
a drama proceeding via watchable processes
the roles that dominate the actors
a theme that stays the course
determining the situation
spaces regions territories that control the role
the idea rules dominates all roles all the actor's spaces
what for needs an actor's role coherent thought?
to reverse the implicating processes?
to disrupt the irreversible dynamics?
to unmake the Idea's fireworks?
to jump off the lawn as if to leave an actor's role?
to play to dramatise then blame an idea?
"All my errors stay behind to lead."
---Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
let no-one represent you. “
#128
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white
but to abjure such prescribed choices. "
#132
"In the age of the individual's liquidation,
the question of individuality must be raised anew. "
#129
“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself
and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name
and pockets the credit.”
#128
"Objective means
the non-controversial aspect of things,
their unquestioned impression,
the façade made up of classified data,
that is, the subjective;
and they call subjective anything
which breaches that façade,
engages the specific experience of a matter,
casts off all ready-made judgements
and substitutes relatedness to the object
for the majority consensus of those who do not even look at it,
let alone think abou it - that is, the objective. "
#69-70
“Fascism is itself less 'ideological',
in so far as it openly proclaims
the principle of domination
that is elsewhere concealed.”
#108
see entries below
it is seen as arrogant, alien and improper
to engage in private activity without any evident ulterior motive.
Not to be 'after' something is almost suspect."
#23-24
"Because thought has by now been perverted
into the solving of assigned problems,
even what is not assigned
is processed like a problem."
#196
"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."
#217
"History does not merely touch on language,
but takes place in it. "
#219
"He who integrates is lost. "
#240
"Only a humanity to whom death
has become as indifferent
as its members,
that has itself died,
can inflict it administratively
on innumerable people. "
#233
Theodor Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969)
# quotes from Minima Moralia
Reflections from the damaged life
Part One
1944
more respect and fewer invasions
by the church and our teachers;
as if something like human dignity
and tolerance towards our youth
was turned into practice
this in direct contrast to the generation
that was our age under the dictatorship;
some of these types could never shed their authoritarien s[k]in
and carried this into life
as if democracy is merely a game,
a temporary diversion
is never written down
and can in fact not be written down
without exposing the state."
--- J. de Maistre (1753-1821)
to one side
the diktat
the destructive word
to the other side
bodies need dividing
to make room for words and factions
live their institutional independence
speakers trade their lies to cover up their bodies
the network's lies nullify people
reaffirming their networking belongingness
if you don't understand the institution
people speak from
inadvertently speak on its behalf
you'll never understand the person's programme of insincerity
lies license to speak subliminally on behalf the institution's
aura of fantasms
several layers of words embed the body
inside the institution's group think
all their words
a perpetual attack
once more
what's most concealed
becomes
the most manifest
in due time
this detour
through God
that subjects politicians to the constraints of theology
but in conditions such that
they make this constraint
into a means of fantastic creation,
that is
they will extract from it a 'liberation'
from Liberalism and its products,
from the Secularism of a Constitution and its products,
from Conventions and their inherent consequences
without anyone even questioning it.
God and Christ offered
an extraordinary opportunity for politicians:
with the theme of God
and making use of God
everything is permitted
(my paraphrase based on
Deleuze's lecture on Spinoza)