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To Herr Hentrich and Senor Raul:New Year Eve Blues

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Nation of One:
I find the terms "literary terrorist" to be emotionally loaded and ambiguous.

Encontrar los términos "terrorista literario" emocionalmente cargado y ambiguo.

What does 'literary terrorism' mean? Is it literature designed to shock and subvert? Literature about the use of shock and terror? Something that challenges the status quo or the canon? What does it mean?

¿Qué significa "terrorismo literario"?

¿es literatura diseñada para chocar y subvertir?
¿Literatura sobre el uso del shock y el terror?
¿algo que desafíe el status quo o el Canon?
¿Qué significa?

Do you mean literature as a form of (conceptual? mental? cultural?) violence? Literature written in support of, or in sympathy with, real-world terror campaigns?

¿te refieres a la literatura como una forma de (conceptual? mental? cultural?) ¿violencia?

¿Literatura escrita en apoyo de, o en simpatía con, las campañas de terror del mundo real?


When I read the term, "literary terrorism", I think of the Koran or the Old Testament or Hitler's Mein Kampf.  Perhaps even the manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, by Ted Kaczynski.

Cuando leí el término "terrorismo literario", pienso en el Corán o en El Antiguo Testamento o en el libro de Hitler, "Mein Lucha".  Tal vez incluso el manifiesto, La Sociedad Industrial y Su Futuro, por Ted Kaczynski.

What kinds of things have I written that would inspire random acts of violence?  I would think that I promote nonparticipation, noncooperation, intellectual honesty, and even genuine mathematical empowerment.

¿Qué tipo de cosas he escrito que inspirarían actos aleatorios de violencia? Yo pensaría que promuevo la no participación, la no cooperación, la honestidad intelectual, e incluso el empoderamiento matemático genuino.


My mathematical and philosophical interests and activities are no threat to the icons of military and economic power.  My way of life challenges the values of the "middle class" and the "working class", but I am too engrossed in technical details to care too much about how one would go about dismantling the systemic stupidity of the military-industrial complex.

Mis intereses y actividades matemáticas y filosóficas no son una amenaza para los íconos del poder económico y militar. Mi forma de vida desafía los valores de la "clase media" y de la "clase obrera", pero estoy demasiado absorto en los detalles técnicos para preocuparme demasiado de cómo se podría hacer para desmantelar la estupidez sistémica del complejo militar-industrial.


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As for Dr. Huber and the SPK, I think that Huber himself translated it from German to English.  So far it consists of many notes about the mental patients who were staying at the University in Heidelberg in 1970 or so.

En cuanto al Dr. Huber y el SPK, creo que el mismo Huber lo tradujo de alemán a Inglés. Hasta ahora se compone de muchas notas sobre los pacientes mentales que se alojaban en la Universidad de Heidelberg en 1970 o así.

I am looking to see how "mental illness" is tied in with inability to present the commodity of labor.  I am interested in the role economics play in defining what "illness" is.    So far, I have seen how the police were used to evict the patients' collective from the university, and that maybe Huber was encouraging the patients to arm themselves against the police.

Estoy mirando para ver cómo la "enfermedad mental" está atada adentro con la incapacidad de presentar la materia del trabajo. Me interesa el papel que desempeña la economía en la definición de lo que es "enfermedad". Hasta ahora, he visto cómo la policía fue utilizada para desalojar al colectivo de pacientes de la Universidad, y que tal vez Huber estaba alentando a los pacientes a armarse contra la policía.

While researching your term, literary terrorism, I found a paper, Exploding Narratives: The Literature of Terrorism in Contemporary America by Stacey A. Suver a graduate student which you may feed into this translator.  I seriously doubt my writing would ever fall into such a category.

Again, I will focus on some mathematical proofs and some programming for most of the day as I hide from the -21C (-5F) temperatures outdoors.

As you can surmise, I am no threat to the Powers That Be, just a man studying some math and programming, helping his mother pay some bills by staying out of trouble.


Mientras investigaba su término, el terrorismo literario, encontré un artículo de un estudiante universitario que puede alimentar al traductor.  Dudo seriamente que mi escritura alguna vez caiga en tal categoría.

de nuevo, me centraré en algunas pruebas matemáticas y algunos programación para la mayor parte del día como me escondo de la-21C (-5F) temperaturas al aire libre.

como puedes suponer, no soy una amenaza para los poderes que son, sólo un hombre estudiando algunas matemáticas y programación, ayudando a su madre a pagar algunas facturas por mantenerse fuera de problemas.

raul:
Hentrich,
What the hell is literary terrorism? Something that challenges the status quo or the canon. To start thinking is already an act of defiance. The powers that be do not like that.  That is the problem. I remember here, in the eighties the Stroessner regime jailed people just for having books on Karl Marx. They were subversives in their view.They were seditious. Nothing new.

You do not cause people to act in a violent way. That is not your intention. Maybe I exaggerated in the use of literary terrorism. Clearly there are authors whose books may be considered literary terrorism such as  the Old Testament or Hitler's Mein Kampf or the manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, by Ted Kaczynski. I only read some parts but also The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,a text that surfaced in tsarist Russia. I wonder if that can be included. This reminds me of the Index of the Vatican that forbade many authors.

Stay well.
 

Holden:
Remember to always make constant shallow smalltalk. Any quietness or meaningful discussion will result in being charged and prosecuted by the thoughtpolice.

Nation of One:
An interesting quote from Turn Ilness Into a Weapon:    "To be healthy, therefore, means to be exploitable."

They equate "being gainfully employed" with "mental health" - to be unemployable is to be sick.

If you are not jumping through hoops or licking some paymaster's boots, you must be a danger to yourself and others.

All I know is that I feel my life is a great burden, and I can almost be 100% certain that it is no more pleasant being anyone else, nor any other living Subjectivity. 

Having said that, I am still going to try to just go about getting through the day.

There will be days when I may even tell my Muse to go pound salt.   ;D

I want to wrap my mind around the STL iterators, but I am just as likely to read a bit of the book Silenus linked to while the rains pour down outside.    It is true what Cioran says, that some days the best we can hope for is to lay down and groan, undisturbed.

Nation of One:

--- Quote from: raul ---Whenever you can, please write about you have been reading about Dr. Huber and the SPK.
--- End quote ---

I am rereading sections 23 and 24 as these sections paint the mentally ill as the "revolutionary."

This would flip the script on those who LOVE capitalism and FEAR socialism.

It makes me want to puke witnessing the Establishment (the self-proclaimed "hard working" middle class) work the gears of their machinery to use phony-smiling Joe Biden to derail the momentum that Bernie Sanders had with the youth.

I would most likely break ranks with those who do not believe in voting were Bernie Sanders to be permitted to run.   Enough about that.  I don't really believe in democracy.   I do not wish to insult everyone in the USA since I have to live here, but there is some serious bullShit going on.   

So, I am getting a little inspiration from a gem suggested by Senor Raul:  Turning Illness into a Weapon.

From Chapter VI. Illness and Capital

23. Identity of Illness and Capital


--- Quote ---Illness is the essential condition, the presupposition and the result of this capitalist process of production.  Illness is collectively produced: that is, in so far as the worker creates capital in the work process, which encounters him as an alien force, he collectively produces his own isolation. It’s therefore only logical that healthcare produced by capitalism perpetuates this isolation in that it doesn’t treat these symptoms as collective but rather treats them as individual bad luck, fault, and failure. However, capitalism produces, in the form of illness, the most dangerous threat to itself. Therefore it has
to fight against the progressive moment in illness with its heaviest weapons : the healthcare system, the legal system, the police. Objectively, illness, as defective (=not exploitable) labor power, is the gravedigger of capitalism. Illness = the inner limitation of capitalism: if all are acutely ill ( = unsuited for work), no one is left to produce surplus value.

As a collectively conscious process, illness is the revolutionary productive force, according to the level of its effectiveness: limited protest, conscious protest, collective consciousness, struggle in solidarity.
On the one hand the function of the health care system is the maintenance and enhancement of the exploitability the commodity of labor power;  on the other hand it must insure that the pharmaceutical
and medical technology industries realize their surplus value. (The health care system is the market for the pharmacological and medical technology industries). The sick person is therefore the object of a two-
fold exploitation: as defective labor power he gets repaired for the goal of continued exploitation; as a consumer he makes for smooth transactions by the medical technology and pharmaceutical industries.
--- End quote ---

That sure got my attention tonight.   Section 24 continues ... presenting the "sick" patient as the true revolutionary.   Things are staring to click, Raul.  I mean, I'm afraid this is all making too much sense, and it is more than a little creepy:   as defective labor power he gets repaired for the goal of continued exploitation

You have to love that terminology:  defective labor power!  Broken Machinery, like the guy walking in circles in that asylum in a film whose title has slipped my mind.


24. The Proletariat Under the Determination of Illness as Revolutionary Proletariat

Not every individual patient (a group that includes everyone) belongs to the revolutionary class. But each of them who claims the progressive moment of illness acts like a revolutionary.   As class lines get blurred, revolutionary struggle emerges; it’s well known that in all revolutions there are and were reactionaries and fascists who were recruited from among the workers.

Only as a sick proletariat - and to be ill is its essential determination, otherwise it would have long ago overturned its fundamental contradiction without the lousy talk of its bourgeois benefactors on the student side - does it become a revolutionary force which stands outside of the free-democratic state of injustice; it has namely no rights, possesses nothing with which it could exploit alienated labor power - be it house, car, refrigerator - nothing that doesn’t fall under the control of capital. Muscles, nerves and bodies never belonged to the proletariat without this, for their functions are always capitalistically pre-programmed before birth, that is in the sense of the best possible exploitation.

Through the subjugation factories of family, home, school, barracks, workplace, office, clinic, prison, etc., this program is turned into a material power against the exploited.

I am sorry that all I am doing is taking excerpts.   I will shut down the computer and continue reading into the night.  I just wanted to make you aware that I do return now and then to that radical book.

At least here in the United States, while one might sympathize with Bernie Sander's call for a revolution, the revolutionaries may actually be the half of the population (individuals as opposed to families) which have already and continue to lead revolutionary lives simply by finding it impossible to submit to the standard exploitation.

The so-called healthy are the most exploited gorts on the plantation!   Notice that the FAMILY itself, the nuclear family, one's own parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - as much as school and job: SUBJUGATION FACTORIES.    It is making too much sense; and hence this may have a depressing and maddening effect on those living this.   

We sick ones may simply be those who have effectively resisted the most severe exploitation; and while we live poorer having to get by with much less, history may present us as those who resisted ... so let us not feel too ashamed of our "illness" or "disorder."

Thanks again, Raul.

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