"The disaster has already occurred; it resides
in everything that had to be destroyed, in all
those who had to be uprooted, in order for
work to end up as the only way of existing ..."


Un soufflé qui était déjà tombé.
The bleak obfuscation.
As it has always been said.
This syndrome. Prescriptive, industrious,
performing. To adopt an outlook.
An elaborate discomfort.
Of registration
and tin-plated wherefore
'til the mind
founders, entranced
but unconsecrated. La femme
qui chantait des lilas.
Suffice it to say


"... The horror of work is less in the work itself
than in the methodical ravaging, for centuries,
of all that isn't work: the familiarities of one's
neighborhoood and trade, of one's village,
of struggle, of kinship, our attachment to
places, to beings, to the seasons, to ways
of doing and speaking."

--The Invisible Committee

10/27/2010

Posted on 10/28/2010
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