From: antonsen-AT-alf.nbi.dk
Subject: Re: revolting life equals death  
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 11:58:01 +0200


Hi William,

I'm not at all happy with your statement:

>And so, lets take murder to its next step...AN ART FORM... forget the 
>John Wayne Gacye's and Jeffery Daumers, how about Giles De Rays... lets 
>get REAL!

Walter Benjamin had a very fitting term for fascism: turning politics into 
aesthetics. If this is so, is Auschwitz then a great work of art?

Believe me, I'm not against violence, but only violence without a purpose. I can 
imagine no prettier sight than a burning pope, or a crucified general, and like 
Bakunin I can't wait to see "the last priest hanged with the entrails of the 
last banker". But all of this is for the purpose of revolution, not pleasure 
(Ok, OK, for the pleasure of revolution, then). 

If I wanted to kill for pleasure I would have become a cop or joined the army.

Turning murder into an art form is turning restrictions on liberty into an art 
form, and I am completely against that.

(On the subject: by the way have you heard David Bowie's latest record, it is 
precisely about art as murder, and quite interesting.....)

Do you have any concrete ideas about how to go about turning murder into art, 
and avoiding these obvious pitfalls on the way? How would you avoid playing the 
power-game?

And will you be able to do something Hollywood doesn't already do?

Frank