Labor http://www.alansondheim.org/labor1991.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/workforce.jpg W = Fs W = work F = force WF = work-force s = Displacement Fs = force Displacement "Communities, multiplicities, battleships! Pathways of thrusting, cells, organization intensely gathering, regathering, in one or another stage. What is a stage but a proscenium. The ego topples at the head of a society striving for balance! Always doomed to failure! The ego thrusts itself out into the simplicity of the surrounding world. It's fearful, cut off. Inside - only a dull murmur - that of true and false recognitions, mechanisms and masquerades. The body holds on, fights to stay alive! "Hardly imitation, mimesis spills mockery, death. Social orders repel one another; everything is loosened. Decathexis is the root-image of culture; the escape-goat in the wilderness, differentiated, loses its history with those who survive elsewhere." (1991) Work forces displacement; displacement of the work force forces work. Note the position of capitals in the equation. Force displaces; displacement produces greater forces, greater forces displacement more. Comrades! There is work to be done. "In the world today, all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes, and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine." (Mao, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, 1967) Let's forget everything we ever knew about work, automation, online work, offline work, manual labor, digital labor, thinking labor, factory labor, industrial labor, quantum labor, mental labor, useless labor, prison labor, field labor, criminal labor, postmodern labor, modern labor, classical labor, informal economic labor, formal university labor, confined labor, city labor, tenement labor, homeless labor, labor of the upper one- percent, hospital labor, labor of the highest one-tenth-percent, mining labor, military labor, secretarial labor, unemployed labor, scavenging, bricolage, field labor. Because a new world awaits, work-force --> force-work. For every action we make, there is, by necessity, another action, correcting our world-view, supplementing it, critiquing it, thrusting it against everything we imagined we knew in the world of the bourgeois: We await our turn at the Helm! We await our moment of Stepping Onto The World-Stage. We await the World-Stage! We await! Outside, screams and too-heavy bass from the night-club. In a couple of hours, it will "let out" and there will be drunken fights and maybe worse. Our heads thicken with the pounding coming through the walls, protected by what might be described as passing evil, but we're not allowed to say that. Instead we type, over and over again, procurement documents, ordnance. That's the word I've been looking for, "ordnance." Ordnance: Its time has come. Forlorn: "In the Topology, inscription 'drips' through representation, the text aligns the real with the signifier, at the same time emphasizing the 'wobbling' of the latter. The text is perforated and energized in this fashion." (1991) "In order to inscribe a fissure, an inscription field must be established within which the fissure is embedded." (1991) ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
