The Russian officer
who impregnated an unconscious woman,
(and who in the virtue of a notice in a newspaper will later
give himself up to his fate),
The Marquise von O.,
is moving together with his group of cavalry
on New Year´s Eve 1799 across the mountain passes
towards Chur /
Only recently
did Suworow´s army,
to which the Russian belonged,
stand in front of Zurich /
General Alexander Suworow (1730-1800)
Grisons´ steady,
ice-covered mountains look
over the rapid changes in Europe /
Brief hesitation before using violence
against objects /
The experienced party member,
aide to the previous chair of the Socialist German Student League
notices in astonishment
the crowd of comrades that has been lingering for several minutes
in front of the VC´s office door
They don´t want to destroy
the valuable pane of thick glass,
though they do want to enter the office
“in order to occupy it” /
Several comrades
pressed up against the office door
suddenly have a battering ram in their hands /
The pane of the
office door shatters /
On 5 May 1818
Top centre:
Ovid
* 5 May 1818 in Trier † 14 March 1883
Working Men of All Countries, Unite!
Working class housing in London around 1818
Here round about me lie the bodies of my friends,
but the victory was ours /
The victory was ours, but here round about
lie the bodies of my friends / Heinrich Heine, from Hymn 1844
Timbuktu, 31.12.1799/
The patrol, arrived the week before,
of French Cuirassiers,
whose corselets, loaded on mules,
which followed the horses,
came together for a feast.
The revolution might have been lost in Paris
but it can
rise up anew anytime
in Africa /
The troops carry books,
all of them novels.
Top left:
“Disruption!” “Everything flows”
Revolution / Upheaval / Radical Change / Rebellion
Industrial revolution / “Creative destruction” / “Surplus value”
Underground / Popular Anger / Struggle for Freedom
General Strike / Capitulation / Fresh Start
Vienna 1848
Bottom:
Sketches by David of the Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1789
„Revolution is a living creature full of surprises“
Top left + top right:
Martin Heidegger, Lecture held on 6 October 1951 at Bühlerhöhe
“… poetically man dwells…”
[…] Our dwelling is harassed
by the housing shortage /
Even if that were not so, our dwelling today is
harassed by work
made insecure by the hunt for gain and success,
bewitched by the business of amusement and recreation /
“… poetically man dwells…”
Do we dwell poetically?
Presumably we dwell altogether unpoetically /
If that is so, does it give the lie to the poet´s words;
are they untrue?
No / The truth of his utterance
is confirmed in the most unearthly way /
For dwelling can be unpoetic only,
because it is in essence poetic / For a man to be blind,
he must remain a being by nature endowed with sight.
A piece of wood can never go blind /
But when man goes blind,
there always remains the question whether his blindness derives from some defect and loss
or lies in an abundance and excess /
In the same poem that meditates on the measure for all measuring, Hölderlin says:
“King Oedipus has perhaps one eye too many /”
Thus it might be that our unpoetic dwelling
its incapacity to take the measure,
derives from a curious excess of frantic measuring and calculating /
[…] The poetic is the basic capacity
for dwelling
[…] “As long as Kindness,
the Pure, still stays with his hearts,
not unhappily measures himself
against the Godhead…”
From SIGMA to OMEGA
Top left + top left: (3x)
“Attack on a thick door of glass” / 2018
Brief hesitation before using violence
against objects /
The experienced party member,
aide to the previous chair of the Socialist German Student League
notices in astonishment
the crowd of comrades that has been lingering for several minutes
in front of the VC´s office door
They don´t want to destroy
the valuable pane of thick glass,
though they do want to enter the office
“in order to occupy it” /
Several comrades
pressed up against the office door
suddenly have a battering ram in their hands /
The pane of the
office door shatters /
Off-Voice:
At night the wife tends the apparatus /
His working days allows Mr Burg to get some fresh air and walk squares for about 15 minutes, twice a day.
For thousands of years, people dwell in their houses.
Outside: Murderer, Industry, World.
During all that time, emotions remain the same.
Bottom centre:
It shimmers in a dark abode, very small, the solace of the new world
“Reason the tender germ”
URUK, 8000 years ago
“To let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
“Reason is an animal of balance”
“Reason” versus “iceberg”
According to a commentary on Jaques Derrida, the modern term “ratio” or “rationality” could be derived from the word ARRAISONNEMENT.
The Old French term means: inspection of a ship´s cargo before setting sail.
Top right:
Illegal Tunnel-Building
Wittgentein´s theory of language
“Thus each organic body of a living being
is a kind of divine machine
or natural automation
which infinitely surpasses all artificial automata …
the machines of nature, namely living organisms,
are still machines even in their smallest parts,
ad infinitum.”