Pain as a wakening of consciousness in erotic response

K. Kieslowski, A short film about Love

[It is banal to devote oneself to an end when that end is clearly only a means. The quest for wealth - sometimes the wealth of egoistic individuals, sometimes wealth held in common - is obviously only a means. Work is only a means. 

The response to erotic desire - and to perhaps more human (least physical) desire of poetry, and of ecstasy ( but is so decisively easy to grasp the difference between eroticism and poetry, and between eroticism and ecstasy?) - the response to erotic desire is, on the contrary, an end.]  

G.Bataille, The tears of Eros 

Screenshots from A. Resnais' Hiroshima mon Amour and Kieslowski's A short film about Love.
To remember/To forget: opposite states of consciousness are pursued by means of superimposition of a self-inflicted pain on erotic response.

That is precisely what we do not know!

It is a word

that we use

to indicate

the opening of our consciousness to ward possibility beyond measure, 

tireless and beyond measure.

And precisely what is consciousness?

That is precisely what we do not know.

It is nothingness.

A nothingness

that we use

to indicate

when we do not know something

from what side

we do not know it

and so

we say

consciousness,

from the side of consciousness,

but there are a hundred thousand other sides.

Well?

It seems that consciousness

in us is

linked

to sexual desire

and to hunger;

but it could

just as well

not be linked

to them.

One says,

one can say,

there are those who say

that consciousness

is an appetite,

the appetite for living;

and immediately

alongside the appetite for living,

it is the appetite for food

that comes immediately to mind;

as if there were not people who eat

without any sort of appetite;

and who are hungry.

For this too

exists

to be hungry

without appetite [...]

A. Artaud , To have done with the Judgement of God 

Cloudy Dunes. When Friedman meets Bucky on Air-Port-City

[Tomas Saraceno at MACRO, Roma _ 25 Giugno - 6 Novembre 2011]

"I have summarized my discovery of the option of humanity to become omnieconomically and sustainably successful on our planet while phasing out forever all use of fossil fuels and atomic energy generation other than the Sun. I have presented my plan for using our increasing technical ability to construct high-voltage, superconductive transmission lines and implement an around-the-world electrical energy grid integrating the daytime and nighttime hemispheres, thus swiftly increasing the operating capacity of the world's electrical energy system and, concomitantly, living standard in an unprecedented feat of international cooperation."

R. Buckminster Fuller. Cosmosgraphy, 1992

Yona Friedman. Space Chain, 1959

http://en.macro.roma.museum/

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Living in the digital ecosystem - MIT News Office

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sceliphron caementarium

mud dauber's nest perfect sponge structure 

a straw structure nest

section of straw nest's capsules

Panacea

Saint Green

…This is not another greenish cant! STAR strategies+architecture unmasks hypocrisy behind sustainability fever, scoffing at the most worshipped architecture's sacred cow.

So because  the guiltier we feel, the greener we try,  there's something irrevent that emerges from a sustainable Cenotaph and an eco-Pantheon, the greener temples ever!
And it goes even more twisted when it comes to Auschwitz camp's houses graciously shrouded with the greenest ivy!
The Green is the common lie, the secret consensus, the perfect crime...

Green has the capacity of reducing all that matters to one single problem, and one single solution: green!
Don't  you feel reassured looking at a green Monumento Continuo? well, if you felt prudish before the naked body of architecture, keep calm: now it's dressed in green! Polite, correct and sustainable…
Green is the new black!

Finally O'Mighty Green will save us all. Even has the power to redeem pornography…so, here comes Green Porno! Isabella Rossellini's sexy short documentaries series…funny and sultry with a twist of surreal.

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