From: Alan Sondheim (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 00:13:08 PDT
When I think of dada I think of dreams - dada dreams. As a 'movement' it
had everything - manifestos, performances, films, blahblah. As a dream it
represents still a moment of chaos, as if structure itself were capital;
chaos channels and challenging by doing neither. In a sense it's related
to Zen or the Buddhism of the Vimalakirti sutra. But this is a dream, an
ahistorical moment, ignoring habitus, temporality, and dada itself, which
is already an antiquity. (Speaking of which there's a relation to Lucan
here.) Dada dreams are that form of outrage which is not strategized, does
not march, overthrows in relation to art and community which values both.
Bush and the ground-up dirt of the real. So this is a dream, and it's my
dream and perhaps yours, and it's at this point of contestation perhaps
that one wants to retain it, just as one wants to retain Hakim Bey or
anarchism or any number of TAZ accumulations, as if there were something
at stake, which would only be reached through the non-media of (anti-)
cultural noise.
- Alan
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