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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Duchamp Kills
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:00:00 -0500 (EST)
Duchamp Kills http://www.alansondheim.org/duchampkills2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/duchampkills.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/duchampkills1.png Duchamp Kills: how often I've chanted that slogan! And for good reason, shrapnel everywhere, war or no war, gangs or no gangs. Raiders violating every fucking body, constant roar of shrapnel, bombs, not even punctuated by the cries of the wounded. A wrong turn for modern art when we lost the way of the people, when we turned away from war, except as exhilaration, acute angles, planes cut into each other until some of then escaped, returned to drop angels among the rest of us, fucking angels killing everything in sight. We should have known better, we should get down on our knees and pray that we turn towards the pain everywhere in the world and we have to do what we can to overturn the damage we have done in our failure to recognize the deep root of culture falling through the earth towards the very center of our Being. Duchamp kills, modern art kills, modern culture kills, deconstruction kills, and we cannot forget the deaths we have ignored, the pain we have caused everyone who is not of us, the torture we can never absolve, deaths and more deaths, more of everything, more of everyone as well.
