Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 23:14:30 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-mts.net>
Subject: Re: hygiene dilemma


Certainly war is the only thing we can be truly sure of, as it is the 
technological mustering of inevitable Death...  war is the 
technomasterpiece of Man...

b




>Walter Benjamin on Marinetti and the Futurists, from 'The Work of 
>Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction':
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>' "Fiat ars--pereat mundus," says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, 
>expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense 
>perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently 
>the consummation of "l'art pour l'art." Mankind, which in Homer's 
>time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is 
>one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that 
>it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of 
>the first order. This is the situation of politics which Fascism is 
>rendering aesthetic. Communism responds by politicizing art.' 
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>On 25 Mar 2004, at 18:30, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
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>>>9. We want to glorify war - the world's only hygiene - militarism,
>>>patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful
>>>ideas which kill, and contempt for woman.
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>>Somehow "Uebermensch", a certain concept of freedom, above all.
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>>Ying and yang,
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>>well, maybe law to, see Manzoni,
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>>H.
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