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[YAWN 15]
[Art Strike 1990-1993]
The modes of discourse
create their own (pseudo) answers. Only illusionary movement can take
place within the existing frameworks. Consequently, our actions towards
revolutionary movement must find their basis in the undermining of
existing (i.e., accepted) forms of discourse. To this end, we formulate
(meta)nihilism as a point of departure, not because we 'believe' in it,
but because it is a tentatively convenient position on the
self-reflexive extreme of the mode of discourse (the 'contradictory').
We will 'progress' 'beyond' this 'reference' point only in that we
intend to deconstruct the underlying capitalist power relations which
caused its materialization (from the historical negation of radical
inertia with pseudo-leisure in the first place). We have no illusions
that meaning can continue in some way to 'progress' or can be done
away with instantaneously-we impassively address the illusionary
'progress' of the 'human condition' and 'desire' its cessation. We
aim for an (in)active refusal of the suppression of (in)active
refusal. And clearly, the reason that these ideas seem negative
or empty is that they are articulated in a self-supporting context
which they attempt to undermine, and which, by its intrinsic nature
cannot tolerate their attachment to the 'value' of 'meaning'
(linguistically, logically or otherwise). This intrinsic
suppression of radicality, when fully understood, provides the
motivating 'level' of speculation which supports our critique of
the modes of discourse. But all 'levels' of separation are
illusionary, returns to the sphere of bourgeois power-relations.
[SMILE