To the Avant-Gard Among Us: A Warning

topic posted Mon, December 15, 2003 - 5:30 AM by  victor ibo v...
This is merely a reminder.

There are many in the movement without dedication, without committment. And for what reason? Critical displacement. Oh yes, they say cutting things, but from whence does their knife come? who has sharpened its edge?

Simply put: Whatever New England may be, it is a symbolic entity which maintains its own constant flux of meaning. Nobody is arguning for authenticity or tradition. There are tools which must be used. We do not assume ourselves to be the sudden purveyors of truth, of light, of salvation. Better, this thing, this revolution, will have no 'avant garde' no elite agitating group. We will not reconstruct the life-world of which we are always a mechanism. And a very particular mechanism.

Enough with liberal egoism. Enough with the condescending bourgeois attitude. Which means the constant drive to evade unity, to constantly make oneself different, always differing, deffering responsibility. This leads nowhere but to show the wolf that seeks us our fleshy wounds, how best to kill us. Enough already, we will take this thing New England not because it sparkles to the eyes, but because of the very fact that it has been thrown on so many of us.

Perhaps, P. HK M., what you acheive in your non-stance criticism is much to the opposite of your intentions. We have all faced this vengeful ego-thing in our carcasses, and we have wrenched it out. Bloody on the concrete, it does not look so different from this other thing, New England. You have yet to do this, and so your sort of criticism is predictable.

This movement is not our own making. We are not its creators, nor its namers. There really is only one decision. Behind it all is chaos. IT is easy to say that 'chaos is good' in the current symbolic order. Yet, there are no such descriptions of the phenomenon that flicker always behind our symbolic selves, our navigational identities. Eventually, these things fall apart. It is not our doing to decide that. We must readjust our thinking so as to go beyond the typical traps of discourse.

So, to the those who fear being known, perhaps it is easier to leave that unknown face to die. We have no control.
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victor ibo vinderloo
United Kingdom

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