Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Hole in the Subject


In fact, every one of us carries some fault within oneself, right. Everyone. The only question is what we should do with this fault. What? Because the presence of a fault is precisely the catalyst for activity, for the correction of that fault, for its neutralization, that is to say, for the search for an "ideal situation" (a situation without a fault)... Every one of us therefore carries within oneself this "hole," due to which he is propelled to fill it in (to level oneself)... The question that remains is how to do that, how to arrive from the fault, the hole, and from the need to remove the fault and fill in the hole to the creative process. How to act "positively" towards oneself? How to create? That is the only question... In essence, when we find this crucial activity, this creativity, which fulfills us, only then do we realize that we are happy precisely because we posses a "fault" ("hole"), right. We are happy that we are "ailing" (that we are not "healthy," "ideal," that is to say, that we aren't "empty"), right.

--Žarko Radaković, "Events That Will Not Be Of Any Historical Significance," Sarajevo Notebooks. 

Kazimir Malevitch, Black Square


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