SURRATIONALISME
YET ANOTHER 'S' WORD
"Where then, lies the duty of surrationalism? It is to take over those formulas, well purged and economically ordered by the logicians, and recharge them psychologically, put them back into motion and into life [...] In teaching a revolution of reason, one would multiply the reasons for spiritual revolutions."(2) --Gaston Bachelard (1936)
MISCELLANEOUS OUTTAKES
"In truth, our leaders and propagandists know very well that liberal capitalism is an inegalitarian regime, unjust, and unacceptable for the vast majority of humanity. And they know too that our 'democracy' is an illusion: Where is the power of the people? Where is the political power for third world peasants, the European working class, the poor everywhere? We live in a contradiction: a brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian -- where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone -- is presented to us as ideal. To justify their conservatism, the partisans of the established order cannot really call it ideal or wonderful. So instead, they have decided to say that all the rest is horrible." Alain Badiou (Cabinet 5, 2001/2) / More Badiou
"'To be potential means: to be one's own lack, to be in relation to one's own incapacity. Beings that exist in the mode of potentiality are capable of their own impotentiality; and only in this way do they become potential. They can be because they are in relation to their own non-Being. In potentiality, sensation is in relation to anesthesia, knowledge to ignorance, vision to darkness' [Potentialities 1999]. Truth to untruth, we could add, originality and uniqueness to non-originality and translation. This understanding and articulation of 'potentiality' has enabled Agamben to enter a sustained reappraisal of knowledge, selfhood, language, and narrative in books such as Potentialities (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), and The Coming Community (1993)." --Paolo Bartoloni on Giorgio Agamben (CLCWeb) / More Agamben
Image (above) - "Laocoon", Adriaen de Vries (Wallenstein Garden, Praha)
