Re: [microsound] soundtrack for apocalyptic annihilation

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

or
--- Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:00 PM, somebody wrote:
> 
> > isn't it
> > that we find destruction beautiful because it IS
> destruction and what
> > we long for above all is apocalyptic annihilation?
> 
> 
> I think this might also be the desire to dissolve
> the ego in an 'other'
> i.e.: eros/thanatos
> to enter a state of eternal non-being by being
> absorbed into  
> something greater
> and sometimes this occurs as a destructive or
> violent process
> example: the armageddon/apocalyptic annihilation
> desired by the neo- 
> con/christian right in the US

or the desires of its so-called enemy (necessary
rival) on the fanatical verso/recto

one thing differs with eros: the erotic can give rise
to care and preservation

this we can figure out once we know that the orgasm is
not the end of the world

but another desire lays hidden in the apocalyptic, not
not only by what benjamin described as the messianic
impulse that in the early benjamin at least he tries
to link to revolutionary upheaval: once the apocaplyse
is "finished" (it never it unfortunately)

you can start with "tabula rasa"

but this is also illusory

blanchot wanted to say "the disaster takes care of
everything" but it doesnt really. the disaster
eliminates certain obstacles, inhibitions, opressions
and repressions, temporarily.

living in berlin one sees reminders of what kind of
destruction took place at the end of wwII and it is
hard to imagine that destruction itself--the kind
brought about by war--is beautiful. but in ruins i
find beauty. why? maybe because in them we see that
the disaster is behind us? because what is displaced
by the destruction reveals a space of another
possibility? or like with the "unfinished" sculpture
or painting, it inspires the imagination by its
incompleteness?

the last thought: 
because structural elements are laid bare and this
gives us our own ability to see how to build?






j.ff gbk

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