Saturday, April 13, 2013



An erotic narrative/the trilogy Pathology of a Still Life/
Human relations with death and the coming of the digital state of the post human/a condition of psychic destitution failing to have experienced the condition of Cybergeddon/and even after the terror and death of whats left of the population are displayed on the screens/human desire for love barely acknowledged and always confused with lust will never be re-established upon its possible bases/this belief like the relation between sleep and dreaming death and the digital paradigms indestructible plague has passed like a dream in the night/The last book of the Trilogy The Portrait of a Still Life [published June 2012] termed Artaud Adjusts his Hat[e] links itself to the two previous texts Homage to Collateral Damage and The Celibate Autopsy which are in the main/ all three interconnected and yet separable/ are books concerning the attempt to eliminate the apprehending the constant presence of death and the digital relationship to the new world of circuits and silicon/Silicon is the blood of the 21st C/These three books communicate with one another and their manifestos which unfortunately adds to the density of the text a certain thickness of text-ure that refuses to move at the pace of the analogue /In essence we are dealing with the perennial text of the mad woman loved and abandoned out of male fear/Nils Urstatt failing to understand desire also fails to prevent the annexation of human consciousness to the Machinic paradigm that paradigm being a feminine one/One of utter desire and flowing with intensity in a non-segmented line of immanence/The Machinic is grounded while the human would believe it is transcendent and superior for believing in an original creator in a manner that the Machinic  does not consider the human to be in its own progenitor/This arrogance is one of the few human traits that are absorbed by the Machinic/The tragic density of The Celibate Autopsy  and the intense network of stoppages that comprise Homage to Collateral Damage have meant that the culminating of the deep melancholy  of Artaud Adjusts his Hat[e] has failed to offer possibilities of explanation/This is disturbing to the reader with their psycho-sexual  tendency to abandon the difficulty of engaging with texts that were written separately over 5 years/The style becomes more difficult and the thought more unfamiliar but this in itself is a metaphor for explaining the main premise of the three books/There is a definite wish by the Machinic to communicate but with who?/Or are the lines of communication already open ?/and the always cynical question of exactly how are we being programmed/if at all/Perhaps just being emptied out of our desires/For as Breton says..”the human personality itself becomes for every pain and every joy exterior to it an indefinitely perfectible a place of resolution and resonance”/ Can we take this seriously as Surrealism has become a long overdue reckless abandonment to pseudo religious ideals giving some help to the marginals and Outsiders of our decadent collapsing culture in all its forms/ / 

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