Realotext: We have to exclude Duchamp. Yesterday he has set a link to Scientology. He did this with the picture of Sodahead.
This picture is an image for the slogan: Be the force with you! This is a slogan of Scientology. This is a slogan which reproduces a simple view on forces, a view which accepts only poles of good and bad energies.
There is no such thing as a start. We can only conceive start as a restart, as something which is created by a creator (god, the force), who was already there.
Duchampimage: Sodahead, be the force with you!
It starts with something and with another thing, a hidden thing, something that is part of the beyond, that has contoures shaped by the known. The known is linked with suspect, with all that frightens us.
Anxiety: All that we cannot calculate.
When did calculation start?
When did the “great” distinction become productive, the distinction between male and female, active and passive, minus and plus, sun and moon, earth and sky, south – north, west – east?
D.: I’ve never read Descartes to speak of. … I am not a Cartesian by pleasure. I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you. *
*Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 17.
D.: A game of Chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves; it’ s a drawing, it’ s a mechanical reality.*
* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 16.
D.: Cabanne asked me once:„What do you believe in?” and I answered: Nothing of course! The word ‚belief’ is another error. It’s like the word ‚judgement’,they ‘re both horrible ideas, on which the world is based. I hope it won’ t be like that on the moon!*
* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 6.
