Sublime

The term “disruption” makes a monolith of the particulars of the everyday, a leviathan out of structures and organizations that are old, have grown up organically, and are therefore pretty scattered and decentralized.

In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme: tyranny.

Perversely, irony relies on some remains of cultural capital in order to coherently express its destructive message. If elevated beyond commentary and analysis to its own pedestal of artistic value, its essence become desacralization and the making trite of deep truths we might prefer to respect and conserve.

Nous ne pouvons pas faire de la docilité fade et de la soumission dansante notre seul horizon. Pour ce faire, nous devrons sortir du grand bain du prédictible et reconquérir nos individualités – c’est ce que j’ai appelé l’anomalisation.

In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: “Younger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,” they cried. “We want it to happen!” Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.

By divorcing itself from meaning systems (especially the ones from which it emerged), science made itself particularly vulnerable to forces that sought to leverage it for domination and extraction.

The other solution is to “break it.”