| Nicholas Hermann on 6 Dec 2000 19:56:08 -0000 |
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>>> "Nicholas Hermann" <[email protected]> 12/06/00 09:37AM >>> From: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> Date: 12/6/00 4:59AM Subject: Re: [7-11] [ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ Re: welcome to fascist america (nn translations by Max Herman) [email protected] wrote: > amuzant. = dze `art!zt` dze 01 mozt abs fasc!zt!k l!f objkt. (Amusing. The "artist" is the one most absolute fascistic life object.) Max: This can be read as a preamble to a critique of the cult of individual, hierarchical genius. > 01 u!ch = eks!ztz at dze ekspensz ov dze `komon` serf (One which exists at the expense of the "common" serf) Max: Artists are paid to provide replacement imaginations for the overworked, cognito-imaginatively underdeveloped working class. u!ch > = eks!ztz at dze ekspensz ov `lour` abs f!tr l!f objktz (which exists at the expense of "lower," absolutely fitter life objects.) Like cows, plants, oceans--the raw material and waste depositories for the system alluded to above--lower or natural life-objects must be sacrificed for the unsanitary economy of cognitive mass-consumerism. TV requires tvs, tvs have lots of bad metals in them and Sony won't recycle; Sony requires malls (like HarMar Mall) which require cardboard, freon, gasoline, and styrofoam; hence lower forms like grass and squirrels are expendable. They become externalities; i.e. they disappear. One precious caveat: the dependence on ignoring environmental externalities to ensure stock values corresponds to an equal, internal ignorance of cognitive, brain-based externalities (unrecognized costs). The artist's soul dies in the process of art economy. Or does it? What is value? "The rhythm of messianic nature is happiness; for nature is messianic by reason of its total and eternal passing away. To strive after such passing, even in those stages of man (sic) that are nature, is the task of world politics, whose method must be called nihilism." In order to coerce external nature (viz. Greenberg's Renaissance Self-Fashioning) we coerce ourselves, our internal nature, instrumentalizing whatever is amorphous and untechnical in ourselves. Instrumental progress is an act of violence committed equally on the external world and on that which is creatively amorphous in ourselves. (Stolen ideas, in part, citations on my site.) > zekurd v!a abs mass \ mob akz!on [= humanz 01 ultra pred!lekz!e > 4 mass \ mob akz!on hav] (This system is secured via absolute mass/mob action; humans have one ultra-predilection for mass/mob action--but not M.A.S.S. action, which is zero) The mass anti-individualistic identity which is fascism is the engine of the entire system of which we speak. The deification of genius and the institutions which implement the hierarchy are the machinery of fascism. From him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. It is well-nigh time for radical change--a revolution--in the media of genius. We must resurrect what is gone. Max Herman The Genius 2000 Network Featuring the Millennium Hut http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/MASS.html Eryk wrote: To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. To call in question the society you "live" in, you must first be capable of calling yourself in question. >>>> >>>> >>>> what **** Command 'what' not recognized. >>>> >>>> >>>> why **** Command 'why' not recognized. >>>> >>>> + >>I have a web-site http://pro.wanadoo.fr/pyrohub/>>I> + http://www.sl -> Rhizome.org -> post: [email protected] -> questions: [email protected] -> unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/unsubscribe/ -> give: http://rhizome.org/support + Subscribers to Rhizome Raw are subject to the terms set out in the Subscriber Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/subscribe/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold