File spoon-archives/postanarchism.archive/postanarchism_2003/postanarchism.0306, message 146


From: BabblePreacher-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 13:07:55 EDT
Subject: Re: [postanarchism] Scott: "The Movement of Schiz-Flux"


In a message dated 6/21/2003 10:43:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com writes:

> At the Bloomington anarchist gathering I give a
> playshop on the sleeping bag-covered floor of a
> university classroom. The tape by Debbie Moore that I
> play has us lay down &rock, put on blindfolds
> and touch (half of us are naked). A man is passively
> resisting. He is haunted/conditioned by his past. I
> search entrance to his trust and find closure. The
> others are mixing in a primordial sea. Finally someone
> finds him.

This sounds more like orgiastic cult behavior than anything else. I do not 
mean to outright dismiss this burgeoning "revolution of desire", but this 
oh-so-subversive ostentation of sexual freedom as a breaking of the rules has been 
done before (60's US counterculture, Henry Miller, the Beats, "Dhalgren", to 
name a few) and has never truly ceased since then - has always been an 
undercurrent of otherwise "sublimated" societies - whether in reaction to, or as a 
result of, may be another matter -, though now it seems to be yearning for new 
initiates and a status as the maincurrent like never before, and adopting the 
deleuzo-guattarian "argot" as a fresh facade: "Schiz-Flux is materialist 
psychiatry, anti-matter pilots careening out of control, (mis)behavioral artistic 
derelicts unlocking accustomed patterns, breaking the codes, delving into the 
molecular unconscious, that biolectic substratum of desire, imbedded, inseparable 
in/from mental/physical/total."

As it (Schiz-Flux) itself claims, it is, "More than left-brained, nit-winged 
word games issuing from a yakkity-yak empty bravado, Schiz-Flux is the dance 
of life with open and crazy arms." And, as we can see, it is so much more: "
Worlds. Seek, salk, sulk, sage. Rattle, cuddle, nibble, widgely, tirage."

    -phil.

"What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned 
sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it 
ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret."            -m.foucault


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