File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-09-03.184, message 10


From: "barrett john erickson" <barrett-AT-skypoint.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:22:20 -0700
Subject: Re: A Revolution of Creative Desire (Creativity and Moralit




I realized on reading your reply Pierre, that I'd been less 
than clear (again) on a couple of points (i do try to 
remain quiet during such spells of conceptual ineptitude, 
but i'm occasionally flushed):


Yes, my position certainly _is_ a basis for an entire ethic 
(it is, in fact, something I've been working on for some 
time) but my argument is that this, _and all_ "ethics" and 
"morality" are formed by everyone autonomously and that 
that autonomy must be defended if the creative dynamic 
(which i think operates quite like your description of 
freedom as duty) is to expand.  

Far from arguing the abandonment of such judgement (which i 
much prefer to refer to as a life "aesthetic"), i am 
arguing for a reorientation around the creative use of it 
(personal and collective), which refuses to impose, or even 
concern itself with continuity of ("moral") purpose.  Instead 
these judgements should stimulate -- we should insist on it 
-- probing challenge, exploration and experiment, continuity 
evolving freely from the spontaneous truth of our lives, 
group actions born of shared passion. 

To make them, as you say, "useful to go further".


~~barrett

[i also think your comment on "deformities" added a bit of 
welcomed dimension, which i've failed to explore and only 
inadequately implied by the use of quotation marks.]

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