Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:18:59 -0500 From: NZ <pretzelworld-AT-gmail.com> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] buenjornio los bambinis new york politics suck, now we are being threatened by mayor gloomberg with a mass transit MTA subway strike. this happens every year, they never strike, and actually can not strike legally cuz MTA unions are illegal. All they are asking for is a contract of 3 years with an 8% raise instead of 5%... and I say "why not!" 5% is the national average, every minute the US debt increases one million dollars, but that's okay cuz every minute we print 5 times extra currency ... thus the 5% the reason MTA are asking 3% more is clear. firstly, in the summertime the city finally sold off its massive waterfront plots of public MTA land to private realestate holders, so you can imagine that the MTA workerss want to participate in some of that profit. 2_secondly, the MTA already has plans to raise the current $2 MTA fare price, 3 years ago they raised it 20%(!), something similar can be expected in 2006, so again the MTA workers just want a cut of the profits that obviously quite large. 3) thirdly, the "terror" threat is stressful for public workers who serve as the face of the very system being attacked, so obviously they ought to get paid more for being on the frontline, especially since the city did not have the forsight to provide any "anti-terrorist training" in fact it was all over the news when MTA workers organized their own volunteer training classes and paid for it themselves cuz they got scared and take these threats seriously. 4thly, the MTA is thhe heartline of the city and the people who make it run are extremely important, they are super-important, they belong in a special class of the workforce that ought to be given its due (so important that their right to strike has been take away). i5 years ago it was mayor ghoulani and now its mayor gloomberg, but the city needs to stop spending millions of dollars on private art-security and pay attention to the public sector again or else we will see the next paris riots right here on 42nd & Broadway. One of the biggest jokes this last year was the gates show in central park by Christo and his fiendish wife Jeanne-Claude. with a scheme 20 years in the making, christo & co. managed to figure out a deal in which the city could pay its police force 22 million dollars to patrol the park and keep their stupid ghetto version of art safe from vandalism. where are those vandals and visagoths? I have never heard of an artist who would stoop to such military fascism in the name of public good. the quality of the art itself is of little consequence unless of course it is possible to find value in the irony of watching millions of middleclass new yorkers willfully, nay, gleefully walking through hundreds upon hundreds of giant-sized neon-orange security gates(!) we are at war, and war is not a walk in the park. orange orange orange orange orange alert orange alert orange alert the gates were ill conceived, their proportions were such that, as a person passed through them, the bulk of the gates' compositional weight rested above, heavy like a guillotine propelled by the gravity of the the new world order. PICS: http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds2-4/orange-gates-central-park Look at the photographs and see how disproportionate and ominous these objects appear when they frame an individual's human body. i could not imagine a more emasculating position, the orangeness outweighing the human form, even daring to flutter in the breeze to bring the orange guiloteen to life, oh the humanity... Thankfully the gates were removed and the park could once again be enjoyed. Although the pricetag for the project materials was incurred by the artists themselves (those jerks!) the 22 million security was paid for by city taxes. In the brochure that was handed out to everyone, christo & co. gave their audience every imaginable excuse to accept their project - "it is made of recyled materials", "the workers are paid fair wages", "the structural integrity of the gates has been insured for worker safety", "the park will be restored to the same state it was found in", etc... really now, what kind of artist would come up with a list of logical reasons to have their work accepted? What I found most interesting was that most basic premise for accepting their project, that premise being "temporality," its so crucial that the gates were designed to be non-permanent objects. just like the terror-code, the orange alert is not supposed to be a permanent state of terror but a temporary inconvenience that all must endure. And yet in the common narrative, this intellelctual premise is completely detached from the _permanent_costs that taxpayers forked up to enact the temporary premise. Its a bad joke played on suckers, but so what who cares, does it really matter? Since Ive been in NYC I have not seen one single amatuer art critic complain about what happened in central park with the bulgarians. the only complaints I heard were from uppity aesthicians who complained about the lack of imagination. but that was last year, 2006 will be just great! dogs dogs dogs dogs all year. I plan to do lots of barking and biting... but I refuse to eat dog food or even hot-dogs and catsup! has anybody read Philip Dru by House? After i read that story I realized that the mega-narrative of history is no longer "empirical" but has became "experimental" and for me began to make much more sense as a grand design instead of landscape of events. (PV really pushes to obscure this line, what with his "comets from the fog" re-definition of integral accident) the lack of imagination in politics and the reliance of articulating and enacting false narratives. Like the self-diagnosis which capitalist mouthpieces like zizek makes of himself but passes off as an objective observation... "its more easier to imagine complete destruction of life on earth then it is to imagine the dismantling of capitalist structure." indeed, A fear of logos, not external logos anymore, but of the logos of personal hypomnemata that can stand head to head against an external logos. the fear of formulating and articulating a personal logic is so strong and so easy to take advantage of. (Why would Germany want to outlaw open-source code!?) If I'm not mistaken, most americans have one phobia/fear that is even greater then the fear of death itself, that fear is usually described by those who feel it as "a fear of public speaking." It makes sense to me cuz public speaking is basically a moment of personal logos articulation within the social frame... to me that is a very central issue to that imagined ultimate-narrative of our times. DUMB SITE ON PHOBIA http://www.communicationnow.org/id13.html If any of you are in NYC this weekend you might be interested in going to this art related event where I will be selling vegan hot-dogs and sweets from my bakery: la superette Exit Art 475 10th Avenue at 36th Street New York, NY 10018 http://www.lasuperette.org/ Saturday, December 17, 2pm-10pm and Sunday, December 18, 1pm-6pm there will be shelves and shelves of cheap functional-art for sale (holiday fix) and really fantastic music all day long. _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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