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Sunday Apr 06, 2003

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For your commodity (my dear Reader) the new "view the journal blog-style" feature allows you now to screen the entries 10 by 10! So it's now of no use I add, as I had planned, an index to the episodes of our Spring serial, ended last week (it started here)

Instead, as a postface of sort, some words by Hakim Bey (author of zataz/ temporary autonomous zone) about Surrealism:

"All projects for the "liberation of desire" which remain enmeshed in the matrix of Work can only lead to the commodification of desire. The Neolithic begins with desire for commodities (agricultural surplus), moves on to the production of desire (industry), & ends with the implosion of desire (advertising). The Surrealist liberation of desire, for all its aesthetic accomplishments, remains no more than a subset of production--hence the wholesaling of Surrealism to the Communist Party & its Work-ist ideology (not to mention attendant misogyny & homophobia). Modern leisure, in turn, is simply a subset of Work (hence its commodification)--so it is no accident that when Surrealism closed up shop, the only customers at the garage sale were ad execs. Advertising, using Surrealism's colonization of the unconscious to create desire, leads to the final implosion of Surrealism. It's not just a "damn shame & a disgrace," not a simple appropriation. Surrealism was made for advertising, for commodification. Surrealism is in fact a betrayal of desire.

And yet, out of this abyss of meaning, desire still rises, innocent as a new-hatched phoenix."
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koolthing:
The sun here is warm. It warms your skin, and makes you drowsy and happy.
And the Pacific...
I walk down the beach *yes real, beautiful, fine sand...* and watch the waves crash in, perfect break down the shore. The mountains drop into the surf, and the light is warm, golden. I feel almost silly saying it but it is true.
The light in Holland is unlike anywhere I had ever been,cool and mechanical, but this light is filled with emotion...

I owe you a long post and some pictures...
I think that is in order...
Apr 8, 2003
silver___:
Well, platinum is considered a precious metal by the "industrialized" world and it does fall within the group of materials whose appearance can be described by the generalized term for my favorite "color". (ie silver). It also has exceptional resistance to corrosion and respectable structural properies.
I hope that doesn't rob the happiness from my previous statement. You must understand that these technical aspects can be beauty to those who think as engineers. biggrin

[Edited on Apr 09, 2003]
Apr 9, 2003

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