Ideas
Human beings are in a state of creativity
twenty-four hours a day. Once revealed, the scheming use of
freedom by the mechanisms of domination produces a backlash
in the form of an idea of authentic freedom inseparably bound
up with individual creativity. The passion to create which
issues from the consciousness of constraint can no longer
be pressed into the service of production, consumption or
organization. (1). Spontaneity is the mode of existence of
creativity; not an isolated state, but the unmediated experience
of subjectivity. Spontaneity concretizes the passion for creation
and is the first moment of its practical realization: the
precondition of poetry, of the impulse to change the world
in accordance with the demands of radical subjectivity. (2).
The qualitative exists wherever creative spontaneity manifests
itself. It entails the direct communication of the essential.
It is poetry's chance. A crystallization of possibilities,
a multiplier of knowledge and practical potential, and the
proper modis operandi of intelligence. Its criteria are sui
generis. The qualitative leap precipitates a chain reaction
which is to be seen in all revolutionary moments; such a reaction
must be awoken by the scandal of free and total creativity.
(3). Poetry is the organizer of creative spontaneity to the
extent that it reinforces spontaneity's hold on reality. Poetry
is an act which engenders new realities; it is the fulfilment
of radical theory, the revolutionary act par excellence.
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