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Title: Mini Theory Author: Feral Faun Language: en Topics: insurrectionary, anti-civ, criticism and critique, society, technology Source: Retrieved on August 4th 2022 from http://www.geocities.ws/kk_abacus/mini.html
Ruins are playgrounds whether Zapotec or Mayan, Egyptian or modern.
Rather than preserve them, why not play with them ’til they wear away
into nothing, and forget the cultures that created them? The memory of
culture is the preservation of culture - and culture is merely the
sacred limit placed on creativity and play. Insurgents destroy sacred
limits.
The consensus process subjects the individual to the group. It subjects
the immediate to the process of mediation. It is conservative by nature
since it only allows change when the entire group agrees to it...It is
internalized control, not anarchy.
For society to function, desire has to be tamed. It has to be colonized
by the economy - turned into lack/need, the fulfillment of which is
attributed to the commodities offered by society. To so direct desire
requires restrictions and structures. As these increase, desire fades
into a mere ghost of itself. The restrictions and structures gradually
come to exist only to learn secrets which can be used against them.
My interest in ruins stems, in part, from attempts to develop strategies
from deconstructing cities playfully, through active, conscious
encouragement of unconstrained rebellion. This requires extensive
explorations of cities to learn secrets which can be used against them.
There is more than one way to create an elite. Ruling classes,
intellectual classes and aesthetic classes create an artificial
inaccessibility of their power, knowledge and skills to "the rabble" to
reinforce their position. On the other hand, self-proclaimed
"class-conscious" radical activists deny themselves access to knowledge,
vocabulary and well-honed analytical skills which are readily
accessible, in order to prove their "class purity" or some such
nonsense, and, by their absurd self-denial, create an involuntary elite
of those radicals who are unwilling to impoverish themselves in this
way.
Many...anarchists are actually leftist or liberal libertarians or, in
some cases, simply angry people who still "think" in terms of the images
created by the social context, trapping their thought within society’s
discourse. Until one gets beyond this discourse, thinking outside of its
categories, one’s rebellion remains part of the structures of authority.
Most anarchists are quite content with society’s discourse, happily
creating an "anarchy" that is thoroughly unchallenging, mild-mannered,
tame and palatable - all in the name of "education" and "action."
Cybernetic technology is dependent upon industrial technology for its
existence. So much for the pipe-dreams of cyber-utopia.
Barter is still economic exchange. Money allows for a more efficient
flow of economic exchange. Why not just get rid of economy altogether?
Often "health" opposes vitality. Those who value "health" often pursue
it in an ascetic and passive manner - by giving up something. Their
longing for health is not a vital, intense desire-trajectory - it is a
business transaction or a manufacturing process - an attempt to achieve
an end - but such a process is never satisfactory, because it is the
nature of a longing to reproduce perpetually the void that is its
origin. Vitality, intensity - these are the only reasons to have
health - and living them creates health or makes it irrelevant.
The best of post-modernism fails because it removes the drift to the
realm of the intellect - static lives moved by random thoughts rather
than ecstatic lives created by the dialect of active conscious thinking
and ec static doing?
If the "subject," the "self," has been destroyed/deconstructed, then all
that prevents one from creating one’s own self, one’s own subjectivity
in each moment is the continued belief in something greater than oneself
that is creator - i.e., the continued belief in god. In the present era,
god is society.
Confronting separate annoying incidents without confronting the mini
social context from which they spring in its totality is no different
then protesting issues instead of contesting the larger social context
in its totality. Nothing essential changes. Failure of imagination,
despair, feeling overwhelmed by circumstances: these are evidence of
interactions gone awry.
The entire "interior" of the "mind" is merely a social creation...a
relationship created by a social context and which would best be
destroyed with that context...Then maybe imagination could cease to be
mainly a fantasy mechanism and become a means for creating intense
moments perpetually. By the "interior" of the "mind," I mean the
thoughts, imaginings and dreams that are separated from an active life
of self-creation.
No one owes anyone anything. Debt is an economic concept and I refuse to
recognize it in any form. Back to