2. A Collective Vision
Behind this ordered approach to art lies a larger commitment -- to life.
So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life -- real
life, I mean, that in the end this belief is lost. This attitude is manifest
throughout the Tape-beatles. These admirable people in whom the system personifies
itself are well known for not being what they are; they become great men
by stooping below the reality of the smallest individual life, and people
know it. I am willing to admit that they are, to some degree, victims of
their imagination, in that it induces them not to pay attention to certain
rules, but in the business of art, the practical application of the human
imagination is both our constraint and our limitless endeavor. |
3. Resources to Meet the Basic
Risks in Life
Life entails risk; that cannot be avoided. But when you provide for the
most basic risks in life, a new degree of freedom becomes possible. The
mind becomes aware of this limitless expanse where its desires are made
manifest, where thoughtful discipline, combined with technical ingenuity
and daring, results in rapid progress and meaningful achievements. This
specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous
image, where the liar has lied to himself. The Tape-beatles are the locus
of that search for lost unity. In this search for unity, the Tape-beatles
as culture are obliged to negate themselves. |
