Thursday, 19 June 2008

7. Great poetry is always an anticipation, a vision, of the collective future. We can see here that Pasolini describes the terrorist subjectivity. He indicates with an astonishing precision that the possibility of this subjectivity among young men or women is the lack of any rational hope of changing the world. That is why he creates a poetical equivalence between Desperation (the nihilistic consequence of false negation), Anarchy (the purely destructive political version) an "free love of Holiness", which is the religious context of terrorism, with the figure of the martyr. This equivalence is certainly clearer today than it was forty years ago, when Pasolini wrote Victory.

From: http://www.lacan.com/badpas.htm

Full Poem: http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/a_hitherto_unpu.html

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