Archive for March, 2007
Letter 3
Friday, March 16th, 2007In this third letter, we intend to go back over the “five pillars” in order to understand them better. For, eventually, where do we want to go ? What does drive us ? What is the “very substance” of this work being built in front of you ?
1 Theology
Illustrated by the Book of Boz, it will be conceptualized in the Great Commentary Book.
What is it about ?
It’s about two intuitions from which we’ll have to see the subversive charge and the following chain of deductions.
The first intuition is to consider, against all odds, against ancient and recent history,- whatever wars, hatred and deaths may mark out this history -, to consider the three monotheisms as a sole religion, modulated, thought and built from a single vision, dependent of a unitay G. (GLC segment 37).
The second intuition is not to start from G., but from His thought. For, may he exist or not, in se and per se, one undeniable fact remains : His thought has been working on for millenniums, driving billions of people and intervening in their destinies, orientating them (radical islam - a real “G.’s plague” - is the better example today).
He would even be dead and buried, nothing would change : G.’s thought would continue to operate.
Fortified by this intuition, we got down to track, drive out and unveil the fantasy behind this thought. For, obviously, behind rituals and dogmas, something operates on the quiet, just like a ghost. What ? We’ll propose the idea of a long daydreaming, crossed by flashes of conscience, hung on mankind from the beginning and capable, if necessary, to be teared down or open, to let a light of hope pass.
2 Philosophy
Three milestones will be our guide here.
1 - Plato’s Republic since it traces, in negative, the limits of a “Boz village” in gestation. In this prospect, we will probably proceed by stages : a virtual elaboration on internet, open to any suggestion; a model to determine the ideal architecture; eventually, maybe, a start of fulfillment.
2 - Spinoza’s Ethics, a determining reflection for our intention, since it introduced a staggering vision in thought’s history, with nearly apocalyptic consequences : the passage from God Subject, dear to Bible, to an immanent quiet down God, decerebrated by abstraction.
3 - Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This long poem, as bearing the stamp of the abyss, announced indeed God’s death and its consequences : Übermensch’s birth, aimed to close the species. Just think about works and manipulations in genetics to understand how Nietzsche’s vision was prophetic (Zarathustra was written between 1882 and 1885). It appears indeed that, in taking away mankind’s sacred aura (henceforth designed as a cadaver), we couldn’t avoid to open Pandora’s box and hand our fellows over to the abjection of a split up body, which has become the all-fights arena (truly an unspeakable lego game combining forthcoming mutations, less random than deducted and produced by future geneticists’ grace.
3 - Psychoanalysis
We will need thus to determine the parameters of an emergence : emergence of a Subject, differentiated from specular grip and narcissistic splendors. So, we intend to show the way of a strong individualization, so necessary today since a wild globalization has been inducing a quite worrying psyche standardization. All this occurring just as mankind globalization had to be paired with a progressive obliteration of singularities, which are our only stability guarantee. (Economic and psychologic globalizations can be paired).
In this aim, we will rely on freudo-lacanian corpus (without looking down on Jung and his archetypes) to demonstrate that the Subject per se operates outside flesh, just like a pure spirit, independently of the neuronal support. There is a gap here, an overstepping, a need for acknowledgment, outside which any redemption couldn’t be conceived. A scandalous affirmation for our science loving intellects but essential to our understanding. This, without foreseeing the neurosciences breakthrough and a still more precise cartography of encephalon. In Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences hadn’t we contributed to bridge a precise symbolic pool (Gimp’s archetype) to a determined region of the brain (Penfield homonculus, tributary of sensitive somatotopia ) ? That doesn’t imply this at all : an automatic organicism, as Francis Crick or others.
4 - Visual arts
Their epicenter will be this one and only question : how representing Void without edulcorating or travestying it, and respecting requirements of a radical Transcendency ? After Kandinsky, minimalists have been pushing the argument until its own limits : a working drawing without any semblance (it’s not a coincidence if the first minimalist exhibition took place in New York Jewish Museum in 1966), a working drawing, which, whatever purists may say, was building an aporia : to be in self the image of an absence.
Hence our desire to operate backwards, to reach the much coveted aim : to create a image whirlpool, to initiate a movement in gusts, draining with it, not only one or two, but hundreds (or even thousands) of pictures, in order to unveil another place : an basic gap, an absolute silence, just as somewhere, in another dimension, an Other was working and defining himself by a renewed transgression.
We will say : a Transcendency from which muteness has to shade away to let a still inaudible speech escape.
5 - Practical knowledges
These will be the spearhead of our universe. They’ll be intended in questioning Civil Society in a both seductive and playful mode. In the contrary of our quite dry if not forbidding “letters”, these pieces of merchandising will aim at the mass to divert and enjoy it. They will so be the tip of the iceberg, what you can see, like and enjoy immediately.
Hence their importance.
To be open works, apart of any clique, unpretentious, aimed to be marketed by Boz Company, from which we know the interface : an artwork in itself (see Boz Company manifesto).
To be a trailer, a start, the first term in a meant as ascending movement (from simplicity to complexity).
To be the exquisite solar openly visible part of a always reworked founder myth.
To be, for many people, the first landmarks of a founder thought : crumbs left on the side of the road, so everyone could pursue their journey.
Yes crumbs.
Or stones.
Or even : some tiny light points thrown away in the night for an absolute loving traveller.
For the rest…
