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perhaps you were too quick, too harsh, my love
reading this 'mani festo' but what body is spoken
through the darkness of light?
a sill with wind at its heart
|||||||||| Is there a mother to a text?
a father, a sister lover brother malefemale? the one who's a man is a body singing at her breast the long gone horn of its trellis.
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franco beradi 's worthless manifesto which being a feeble attempt to rewrite the original Futurist manifesto reveals itself to be of No use at All so
it has been crossed thru
1. We want to sing of the danger of love, the daily creation of a sweet energy that is never dispersed.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be irony, tenderness and rebellion.
3. Ideology and advertising have exalted the permanent mobilisation of the productive and nervous energies of humankind towards profit and war. We want to exalt tenderness, sleep and ecstasy, the frugality of needs and the pleasure of the senses.
4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of autonomy. Each to her own rhythm; nobody must be constrained to march on a uniform pace. Cars have lost their allure of rarity and above all they can no longer perform the task they were conceived for: speed has slowed down. Cars are immobile like stupid slumbering tortoises in the city traffic. Only slowness is fast.
5. We want to sing of the men and the women who caress one another to know one another and the world better.
6. The poet must expend herself with warmth and prodigality to increase the power of collective intelligence and reduce the time of wage labour.
7. Beauty exists only in autonomy. No work that fails to express the intelligence of the possible can be a masterpiece. Poetry is a bridge cast over the abyss of nothingness to allow the sharing of different imaginations and to free singularities.
8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries… We must look behind to remember the abyss of violence and horror that military aggressiveness and nationalist ignorance is capable of conjuring up at any moment in time. We have lived in the stagnant time of religion for too long. Omnipresent and eternal speed is already behind us, in the Internet, so we can forget its syncopated rhymes and find our singular rhythm.
9. We want to ridicule the idiots who spread the discourse of war: the fanatics of competition, the fanatics of the bearded gods who incite massacres, the fanatics terrorised by the disarming femininity blossoming in all of us.
10. We demand that art turns into a life-changing force. We seek to abolish the separation between poetry and mass communication, to reclaim the power of media from the merchants and return it to the poets and the sages.
11. We will sing of the great crowds who can finally free themselves from the slavery of wage labour and through solidarity revolt against exploitation. We will sing of the infinite web of knowledge and invention, the immaterial technology that frees us from physical hardship. We will sing of the rebellious cognitariat who is in touch with her own body. We will sing to the infinity of the present and abandon the illusion of a future.
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http://r3volutionaryb0dy.tumblr.com/post/148453871344
— Franco Berardi aka Bifo, MANIFESTO DEL DOPOFUTURISMO [manifesto of post-futurism]
you might wonder why it's been crossed thru? well for one No one needs Manifestos to know these things which have been stated already a million times over,
it's not what's being said that's the problem
it's the whole notion of a manifesto. the concept of a manifesto is outdated
manifestos, proclamations who reads
them unless
they are the great ones
of the past
as in the dada
manifestos
or the true
however
disagreeable ones of the
futurists
this waterdown text
of Bifo Beradi's
isjust cloying
and no one takes it seriously
its a five minute text,
you read it,
say yes,
sure,
an
move on
it's
not a thing
it's not a how to
there's nothing there but old sounding phrases
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what's needed
are how to's
we need Programmes
little machines/medium sized
ones
whatever works
not big loud banging
proclamations
pretending to
be something
that's already received knowledge
what's not needed
are
man i festos
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