The Machine is Us/ing Us

SURREALIST ART. André Breton

SECRETS OF THE MAGICAL

SURREALIST ART

Written Surrealist composition

or

first and last draft

City of Panic. Franco Berardi (Bifo)

The urban territory is increasingly traversed by streams of diasporic, heterogeneous and de-territorialised imaginary. Panic tends to become the urban psychic dimension. It is a reaction of a sensitive organism submitted to a stimulation too strong and too rapid. A reaction of an organism urged by too frequent and intense impulses to be emotively and conversationally elaborated.

What is panic? We are told that psychiatrists recently discovered and named a new kind of disorder – they call it “Panic Syndrome”. It seems that it is something quite recent in the psychological self-perception of human beings. But what does panic mean?

Cut Up. William Burroughs

Fear and writing. Jacques Derrida