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TEXT : ANTITEXT
If we realize through contemplation that the existence of anything
is defined for us through relations of
equivalence, this is possible
because the idea of this manifestation of unity is potential in
our consciousness.
For the latter is a particular instance of the universal
consciousness,
which is one. Our dreams would then seem whole and unified,
however this is not possible because
equivalence
is equal to negation:
Reality can and must exist through differentiation, through opposition
and friction, for the moment we define ourselves as the pinacle of
this opposition, that is to say, opposition to what is assumed to be
life
simultaneous with the refusal of
*death*.
As a result of the 'transformation' of the 'human condition' from the
determinance of survival to the
non-referentiality
of enforced
leisure and contemplation,
life has become increasingly abstracted,
textual.
In this text we are all simultaneously
authors and characters.
The plot is determined not by the multiple authors, but by the editors who
choose and reject our lives, our
textual fragments,
past and future.
The resulting text is
huge, complex and distracting to a degree which
prevents us from realizing that we are its authors. This distraction is
the mechanism which distends the horror of the present into the future
indefinitely.
Anyone who thinks that murder is in some way anti-intellectual has
radically missed the point.
If what was said,
written
and done was the totality of existence, we would
have no hope and embrace our
*deaths* willingly. But anyone knows that what
is not said is as important as speech and that silence. Uncontemplated
and perfect are the substrata of
life. Silence does
not equal passivity, but
rather the denial of relations of
equivalence.
Neoism is the space in which
a social
consciousness
of social consciousness
is developing, and consequently the
formation of a self-defining limit in the age of artificiality. The sign
of this limit is the realization that subversion cannot be subverted, it
can only be extended to fields of activity which contain itself. The limit
is not impotence, it is motion.
Above all, we must remember that the fear which directs our mental
maneuversis rooted in the concept of '
reality,'
a concept which has been
of practical importance for two hundred years, and that if we wish to
reject it, we have only to complete this sentence.