Future Future 07
by machinedesiring
For too long the world of the body has been overdetermined by our vanities and insecurities alike; the manipulation of the intuitive, affective–of our experiences and desires–as being the superficial, trivial; the nonsensical reorientation of “science” as something occurring in the head and nowhere else. Such managerial religious perversity aimed at preserving the misery of the present; limiting the ecstatic potentialities of where our imaginations might lead if we were to actually touch, move together, sweat, to push ourselves and each other to try to feel something together, deeply. If only we knew not just where to look, but how…
So we continue. Months, years, decades… what are the limits of our memories… Where are the truths of these memories contained, demonstrated, lived? How?
“…all we know are assemblages. And the only assemblages are machinic assemblages of desire and collective assemblages of enunciation… Desire is always assembled; it is what the assemblage determines it to be… Assemblages are passional, they are compositions of desire. Desire has nothing to do with a natural or spontaneous determination; there is no desire but assembling, assembled, desire. The rationality, the efficiency, of an assemblage does not exist without the passions the assemblage brings into play, without the desires that constitute it as much as it constitutes them.”
“…this muscular orgy during which the most brutal aggressiveness and impulsive violence are channeled, transformed, and spirited away. The dance circle is a permissive circle. It protects and empowers. At a fixed time and a fixed date men and women assemble in a given place, and under the solemn gaze of the tribe launch themselves into a seemingly disarticulated, but in fact extremely ritualized, pantomime where the exorcism, liberation, and expression of a community are grandiosely and spontaneously played out through shaking of the head, and back and forward thrusts of the body. Everything is permitted in the dance circle.”
Saturday May 17th 2014 – 10:30PM
The Brass Bottle
1288 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Desiringmachine Soundsystem 