'The children of May 68, you can run into them all over the place, even if they are not aware of who they are. Each country produces them in its own way. Their situation isn't so great. These are not young executives. These are strangely indifferent, and for this very reason are in the right frame of mind. They have stopped being demanding and narcissistic, but they know perfectly well that nothing today corresponds to their subjectivity, to their potential of energy.'
Gilles Deleuze, from the text 'Mai '68 did not take place'
We are all children of '68, we all have a potential of energy. If we recognise our actions will ebb and flow for generations to come, we can realise this potential of energy and together spark new relations with all that surrounds us. We need to stop being apathetic and start being active, making powermoves at every opportunity. This isn't a rallying call for active opposition, but a calling for an active awareness of our own positions within our respective subjectivity. An awareness i wish i had realised a long time ago.
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"Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though we try to cover the two with a bright awning. And it won't go. Ideas have to be wedded to action; if there is no sex, no vitality in them, there is no action. Ideas cannot exist alone in the vaccuum of the mind. Ideas are related to living: liver ideas, kidney ideas, interstitial ideas, etc. If it were only for the sake of an idea Copernicus would have smashed the existent macrocosm and Columbus would have foundered in the Sargasso Sea. The aesthetics of the idea breeds flowerpots and flowerpots you put on the window sill. But if there be no rain or sun what use putting flowerpots outside the window?"
ReplyDeleteFrom Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. New York: Harper, 2005, p 243.
I wrote a 15 page paper on the topic of awareness vs real insurgency. If you care you should get me your e-mail address.
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