對公共建設的信任
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在討論「有機經濟學101」與「如何成為橫向文化」之前，很重要的是／我要重述／我錯誤份子的憑據／你得讓自己的重要性鋒利如刀。我渴望伸頭一刀，因為我一點也不相信我自己提議的，儘管我一心一意。
因為—提議對文化而言就如同變遷之於生物：常常很枯燥、鮮少有害而且這是我們現在跟未來所需要的：美麗且彎彎的口器吸取花朵的花蜜 ，更容易吸取。
所以，我們如何變得具有「橫向文化」？
我們如何接收生活的軌道，而且有意識地當作為自己的？
我提議一個出口，離開生物學拉丁彌撒。我提議這個婀娜地更新的老神生活。我們需要一個新的文字遊戲和與渾沌的直接關係。
我們不能將發展與起源搞混。說一個國家發展就是說國家發展成最終果實豐碩的結構，這只是等待經驗，經驗的基礎讓國家呈現出完美的結果。
事實上，手邊的工作是為了找出—如果有答案的話—到底什麼能當作類似去氧核糖核酸的東西，類似其排列結構和意思。
我會告訴你我的想法，幾乎是絕對錯誤的：
沒有結構，歌曲很複雜，能夠唱進世界的主體，除了標準的人類器官系統。在那個花園裡，四十億個細胞一致精神分裂地唱歌—唱單一人類意識。那套器官只是唯一一首複雜的歌曲，複雜的夠我們每個人一起唱這首歌。我們心理翻譯的多元性。放諸四海皆同的身體。
或許吧！
但是胚胎發展絕對不是演化而是非常精細的過程—演化論的產品。再說，沒有任何指引來告訴我們所站何處。再者，演化論3已結束，其時間框架是如此的緩慢，對我們一點用處都沒有。我們不是演化的代理人，而是滅種的。除了這些以外，我們還是精心製作的成品經手人。我們參與建造身旁世界的主體。那般規模的第一個主體。我們是無向量的跳躍，在錯綜複雜裡從建立第一個主體的細胞文化中跳出，但那卻是我們最近的類比。
我們必須敞開雙臂接受成為發起人得經歷亂七八糟的過程，而且將世界已然在胚胎發展的某個階段完全演化的想法通通忘記。讓我們說「國家系統是目前最初的器官，這個系統結構包含宇宙的一切。身體的器官就如同宇宙的細胞。」
我們必須對科學講求嚴謹，對詩也是。
我們必須成為虔誠且有詩意的科學家，在其他文化規模的經驗類比地圖上，表現詮釋。我們必須尋求成為像是五種文化，將其藝術推過已建立的藝術和當下的藝術之門。
人性站在其創造物的框架裡。我們唱了這首橫向文化梯，唱成實際存在的事物。從一顆苞子：從一種探索現實和承受的方式：種植、灌溉、收穫不變的結果。到一座橋：物質主義，支持擁有人性向前穿越時間，以及改變霸權的制約。而今我們來到更開放的地方，事物搖擺，開始崩裂。我們相信新一種的結構增殖：網路、市場和泡沫。泡沫就像填不飽的飢餓感。泡沫長久以來就如同大教堂般，是適當的投資工具。闡述全球經濟體的時候，我們激發了世界器官。但，我們如何將世界器官唱進結構裡呢？
喚起意思的世界器官：奔放設計民主的超核心。
用錢保銀行、防洪隄上推沙袋以及補助乙醇得視為「反擊」－試圖提出小提議來克服邪惡經驗，希望發展出對應之道。我們不能再往負載過量的肝臟裡塞糖，得開始將一些可愛的腎臟形式化—太陽海和滾動的綠色植物。我們得成為有機化經濟學家，在計畫的形式裡找出新系統，將生命的軌道推前，從經濟體到器官。
例如：網路是全球的但非全宇宙的資訊經濟。數位化的球形Google大教堂(比喻地球) 地圖馬賽克—由外翻向內。八十億的人，化身調查去尋找所有可能性的整體，我們到底往何處去？所有人類的夢，透明度地互相重疊。我們偵測得出差異，儘管多數人創造了更密集的線。我們提議的句構章魚，以及我們計畫的形式，取代了缺少的計畫和無形的手。取了畫素更高的名字。畫面更清晰，資訊更密集，啓發出行動決心。這是器官／我們未完成的網路經濟體／積極想轉變地。這過程應是自然的，但不是不能避免。
此文摘選自：對公共建設的信任—錯誤份子的宣言
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時間：2008年10月18日
地點：倫敦蛇形畫廊
Faith In Infrastructure
Synchronized two channel HD videos, 30 min, 2009
Before “Organific Economics 101” and “How to be Paracultural”, It is extremely important / for me to refresh / my errorist credential/ and for you to sharpen your criticality to an axe- murdering edge. I long for that chop, for I am in no way convinced of what I propose, tho very committed to proposing it.
For- Proposal is to culture what mutation is to creature: Often dull, rarely harmful, and every now and then it is just what we need: The fancy curved beak to suck the nectar... out of the flower...better.
So, how do we become Paracultural?
How do we take on the trajectory of life, consciously as our own?
I propose an exit from the Latin mass of biology. I propose this curvaceously updated old god Life. We need a new word game and a direct relationship with the godmaths.
We must not confuse development and origination. To say a nation develops is to imply that a highly perfected map of a final fruiting structure exists within that nation- that it merely awaits the set of experiences- a mother- which would allow it to unfurl its perfection.
In actual fact, the main work at hand is to find out what- if anything- could be astutely considered analogous to DNA- to its syntactical structure and to its meaning.
I will tell you what I think- almost definitely wrong:
No structure song is complex enough to be sung into world body, except, that standard human system of organs. In that garden 4 billion cells sing in schizophrenic unity- a single human consciousness. That system is the only song complex enough for us each to sing it together. The translational diversity of our minds. The universal sameness of our bodies.
Maybe.
But definitely and for sure embryonic development is not evolution. It is a highly refined process-product of evolution. And again, no guide to where we stand. Furthermore, evolution3 is over- its time frame is so slow that it is no use to us. We are agents of extinction, but not of evolution. Far beyond all else, we are agents of elaboration. We are practicing and building a world body around ourselves. The first body of that scale. We are a scalar leap in complexity from the cell culture that built the first body. And yet, that is our closest analogy.
We must embrace the messy process of becoming, of first origination! and forget all ideas that the world is a fully evolved thing in some stage of embryonic development.
Instead let us say, “The nation state system is like a proto-organ in so far as it is a universally inclusive structure. As the organs of a body are universal to its cells.”
We must be rigorous in our science and also in our poetry.
We must be pious and poetic scientists, performing exegesis on the analogy map of the experiences of other scales of culture. We must seek to be like the five cultures that pushed their art across the threshold between the built and the alive.
Humanity stands inside a framework of its own creation. We have sung this paracultural ladder into existence. From a spore: from a way to navigate reality and endure; planting, irrigation, harvest unchanging. To a bridge: a materialism, which supports the procession of humanity forward through time and changing hegemonic formulations. And now we have come to a more open place where things shake and start to break. We put our faith in multiplication of a new kind of structure: the web, the market and the bubbles. The bubbles, which are like an unsatisfied hunger. The bubbles, which long to be cathedrals- to be proper investment vehicles. In elaborating global economies, we evoke world organs. How do we sing them into structure?
Bailing-out banks, sandbagging levees and subsidising ethanol must be characterized as “thrashing about”- an attempt to surmount an evil experience by rampantly generating small proposals- in the hopes of developing a response. We must move from pushing sugar into over-loaded liver and set out to formalize some lovely kidneys- solar seas and roiling greens. We must be Organific Economists- seeking-out new systems in the Pattern of the Plans; advancing the trajectory onward from economies into organs.
For example, the web is a global- but not universal- economy of information. It evokes a world organ of meaning: the super-nucleus of a rampant design democracy. A spherical digital google cathedral earth map mosaic- flipped outside-in. Inside, 8 billion humans' incarnations are surveying the entirety of what could be. The overlapped transparencies of all humanity’s dreams. So difference is detectable, tho majority creates a denser line. Our syntax octopus of proposals and our pattern of the plans replaces the lack of plan and the invisible hand. With a higher resolution name. High resolution in the sense of high informational density, and in the sense of inspiring resolve to act. That is the organ / which our unfinished web economy/ seeks to be. It is natural, but not inevitable.
The statement is partly selected from:
Faith in Infrastructure- An Erroritst Manifesto
Presented at the Serpentine Gallery
