Or better that we must find now better ways in order to profane. If to profane means to return to common use of man that which has been separated to the sphere of the sacred or of consumption or spectator we could say that the capitalist religion in its extreme phase or stage is created something absolutely unprofitable, which can never be given back to use.
So I have to stop here in order to respect our limit of time. Let me just say, in a kind of semi-ironic, or better semi-paraodic, but finally serious statement, that the profanation of the unprofitable is the political task of the coming generation.
I am not flint or diamond or any of that great hard stuff. If I am stone, I am some kind of shoddy crumbly stuff like sandstone or serpentine, or maybe schist. Or not even stone but clay, or not even clay but mud. And I wish that those who take me for granite would once in a while treat me like mud.
Ursula K. Le GuinIt’s dangerous to stop making things.
Trude Fleischmann, Tilly Losch, dancer at the Vienna State Opera, c. 1925
Even when the pianist swept down to the lowest reaches of his instrument, Mr. Graves seemed to stay underneath him, a ballast in constant flux, offering only the guarantee that he would listen, and change
I think we are all, including the ‘productive’ people – those who consider themselves as thinking agents – in need of a lot of healing. And I do not mean one great healing. No, we need as many healing processes as there are places and figurations.
Isabelle StengersLuhmann remarks that when the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, newly established in 1969, asked its professors to report on the research projects they were working on. His reply was “Theory of society; duration: 30 years; costs: none
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