Saturday, May 23, 2020

RONA Fragment #2: Darkness & the Percocet In-Between


Darkness & the Percocet In-Between

a small sheet of plain white rectangular card stock
imperceptibly split edge reveals flat
faceted garnet, cut in the form of a lozenge
giving the appearance of the ace of spades

                        INCANTATION
            the apparatus proposed is the distinctive
            trademark of Enlightenment thought

            Empiricist & Idealist currents, Transcendentalism
            event inspired a cycle of struggles

            desires and needs cannot be translated
            into different contexts – so it happens potential

            revolutionaries around the world cannot
            invest in actions around the world
            Beijing
            Nablus
            Los Angeles
            Chiapas
            Paris
            Seoul

To clarify this relation it must be understood
that the class struggle is over the way
the capitalist class imposes the commodity form
on the bulk of the population by forcing people
to sell part of their lives as the commodity
“labor power” in order to survive –

            after choosing various points
            by examining the red strokes
            he held the engraving point vertically
            in his right hand and made
 seven superficial marks
linked together as a globally expanding chain
institutional, political, and scientific rhetorics
became absolute on this terrain
and every conceptual formation
came to be marked by it

it is not either/or
difference
hybridity
mobility
are not liberation, not in and of themselves
and neither are
truth
purity
stasis
real revolutionary practice
refers to the level of production
truth will not set us free
but taking control of the production of truth will

            diametrically across the earth
            always remaining visible amid vague
            geographical indications, descending
            a long way without deviating and
            ended, at a treble stave showing
            high C accompanied by three “f”s
            in the center a cluster of stars
            where the word “Nadir” is written

these struggles often fail to communicate context
lack even local communication
and burn out in a flash
the exclusive horizon of ideology
a hugely distended mouth
a vertical line of dots
a flash point
the formalization of politics
the instrumentalization of science and technique
for profit
the pacification of revolt


source texts: Hardt & Negri, Raymond Roussel, Harry Cleaver

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