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>Something like a discussion
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>Something like a discussion
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>Felix Guattari, "Molecular Revolution" (excerpts)
>Begins with English Summary by Charles
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>Delacroix's Journals (excerpts)
>Begins with English Summary by CharlesDocument
>Simone Forti (Excerpts)
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>Session 3, CharlesTranscript
>Session 1, All members
Something like a discussion… ...evolving around: the “state“ of the world, each protagonist’s perception of it, what they do or feel they can do in it, the revolting against and revolutionizing of norms, what becomes or could become of these revolutions.
I basically took the structure of Guattaris text, and included the other protagonists views within it, particularly the process of revolting, doubt, creation (since they all are protagonists of molecular revolutions), that Simone Forti (and Delacroix, but maybe I should do some more refining concerning his process) goes through. But where Guattari's text what have been kind of conclusive (with a basis for a form of action), Simone keeps the text open. The text is a representation of the process they went thru, but this process will be repeated in cycles by folowing generations. And it is this process we are struggling with.1- For some years now we have been experiencing a full range of regional conflicts, of local political confrontations, of economic crises.
.2- How does a world so beautiful contain so much horror! under the appearance of calm of these houses, the passions, vices, crimes, are only sleeping, or awaken the dark preparing to take arms.3- End of summer in the Sierra Nevada, in an almost imperceptible manner, a giant pine tree moves in spirals around its axe.
1- Indeed a revolution of great amplitude is developing today, but at a molecular or microscopic level.
3- I am a dancer because I am capable of reading movement. It is in terms of movement that I understand things.2- The result of my days is always the same, an infinite desire of what one never obtains, an extreme "itch" to fight as strongly as possible against time which carries us away.
1- This situation would call for revolutionary solutions.
2- We were during three days in the middle of gun fire, people were fighting everywhere. until now everything is ok. all the people of good sense hope that the makers of republic will keep quiet. freedom bought at the price of battles is not really freedom.
3- I saw a man in pyjamas walk up to a tree, stop, look at it, and change the way he stood.
1- But no one, no political organisation is ready to deal with it.
2- The people of the municipal council seem to think that on can change the world by discussions, those of the senate, these scoundrouls applauding them selves in their broded clothing, are incapable of order.
1- One can not strive toward apolitical objective without identifying as well all the microfashisms, all the modes of semiotic subjugation of power that reproduce themselves through that struggle.
3- We viewed the working of technique with the perspective that the body was capable of doing all kind of movements.
2- The real moralists, the philosophers, never spoke of politics. They only asked men for resignation towards their destiny.
3- Driving on a highway in Arizona, I saw a small tornado moving fast along the desert. I really wanted to run to its center. I stopped the car, and I walked to it, but I was to shy to jump on it and grab it before it disappeared.
1- No myth of a return to spontaneity or to nature will change anything.
3- He had been observing a rock. Then he lay down on the ground. During three minutes he had become more and more compact until the "contour" of his body no longer touched the ground, keeping only the part under his center of gravity in contact with it.
1- To the extent that one fights microfashisms at a microscopic level, one can also prevent it from happening at the level of large political groups.
2- Sickness, death, poverty, pains of the soul are eternal and will torment humanity under all regimes, whether its form be democratic, mononarchic, will do nothing.
1- The militant’s wife who stays at home to look after the children.
3- I had started doubting of my way of practicing. I perceived a common vision of the world between an aesthetic research coming from New York and the foreign policy, which came from Washington.
1- Analysis again everywhere possible.
2- There are radical brights or shades. There is a color mass for each object reflected differently on every side. Strangely enough, this profound truth has been only understood by a small number of painters, even among those one calls the colorists.
3- After using the different constitutive elements of the room I was performing in, I realized that most of my actions were executed not for the movement to be seen, but for a precise work to be done.
1- One truly awful arrangement from the vantage point of the arrangements of desire - is that of this room itself, with some individual raised above everyone else, making it impossible for any one really to start a discussion.
2- Oh indignant philanthropist! without heart or imagination. You think that man is a machine, like your machines, you deprive him of his most sacred rights, under the pretext of freeing him of tasks that you consider unworthy, and which are the law of his being.
3- I had moved to New York. I couldn’t believe my eyes. an environment completely conceived and created by people, like a labyrinth of mirrors and concrete. It was very depressing, I started paying attention to my one gravity and mass, as a kind of prayer, because they hadn’t changed.
2- I saw a procession of ants, going in one direction as if migrating, a small number of ants were going the opposite way. Where were they going? We are all stuck, animals, men, vegetables, in this immense box called the universe.
3- Feeling depressed. I am ashamed to dance. I can’t stand any longer all the precise movements that are taught in technique courses, but I am ashamed to move in response to my own sensations. I just can’t do it anymore.
1- Analysis again everywhere possible leading through a systematic decent ring of social desire, to soft subversions and imperceptible revolutions that will eventually change the face of the world, making it happier.
2- Man always starts all over again, he can establish no progress. How could a nation establish one in his.
3- The Hopi Indians are bound to the center of harmony of the earth by the top of their head, which they must keep open. They have a migration to accomplish, which has brought them around the Americas several times, along many generations. But the temptation to sedentarise and build a city arose every time they settled a little too long. Life is simpler, within a large stable community in which one can make a name for oneself. But the danger is that the top of the head closes up, and the world is destroyed.
2- Napoleon’s tradition is the necessary result of the revolution
3- Every time a couple of people feel this evolution, escape and hide under earth before being destroyed. After several days they come out again and the whole cycle starts again.