Hard to Be a Saint in the City by Robert Inchausti

Author:Robert Inchausti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Gerard-Georges Lemaine

Initially, cut-ups were used only with short texts taken from newspapers or letters. In these cut-ups phrases were broken apart, mixed, and combined; the business of disarranging and redistributing the meaning of the message was left to chance. All possibilities of this message were explored. Two—or more—messages, once assembled according to this strategy on the page, revealed another message, which its components were careful not to communicate. The use of this systematic method, uncontrolled by the intelligence, to relate divergent sources of information demonstrated the close interdependence of these sources. In addition, the fragment arrived at as a result of this operation automatically presented itself as a work of fiction. It made no difference if what was being associated were two essays on mathematics or two articles of popularized science. The resulting texts always took a narrative turn, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist in an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.11

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