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Regions are inclusive zones. They are arbitrary, porous, and multiple. Regions exist(?) without borders = no state lines. As Max Cafard puts it in The Surre(gion)ist Manifesto (1), the state is a parasitic growth on the region that has no life of its own, but leeches its energy from the community. Regions are the centrless dessin d’enfant, sound like C ∪ {∞} criss-crossed by lines, creases, ripples - all sorts of undulations. However, all lines are included, inclusive, inviting. Veins of ore, xylem, water, leys, etcetera. They sinch in towards, rather than perform the exclusionary binary of the gated community and chaste verticality of the condominium. | Regions are inclusive zones. They are arbitrary, porous, and multiple. Regions exist(?) without borders = no state lines. As Max Cafard puts it in The Surre(gion)ist Manifesto (1), the state is a parasitic growth on the region that has no life of its own, but leeches its energy from the community. Regions are the centrless dessin d’enfant, sound like C ∪ {∞} criss-crossed by lines, creases, ripples - all sorts of undulations. However, all lines are included, inclusive, inviting. Veins of ore, xylem, water, leys, etcetera. They sinch in towards, rather than perform the exclusionary binary of the gated community and chaste verticality of the condominium. | ||
Cafard, Max. The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto. In Exquisite Corpse Vol. 8 No. 1-4, Baton Rouge: Culture Shock Foundation, 1990 | 1 Cafard, Max. The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto. In Exquisite Corpse Vol. 8 No. 1-4, Baton Rouge: Culture Shock Foundation, 1990 | ||
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Regions are inclusive zones. They are arbitrary, porous, and multiple. Regions exist(?) without borders = no state lines. As Max Cafard puts it in The Surre(gion)ist Manifesto (1), the state is a parasitic growth on the region that has no life of its own, but leeches its energy from the community. Regions are the centrless dessin d’enfant, sound like C ∪ {∞} criss-crossed by lines, creases, ripples - all sorts of undulations. However, all lines are included, inclusive, inviting. Veins of ore, xylem, water, leys, etcetera. They sinch in towards, rather than perform the exclusionary binary of the gated community and chaste verticality of the condominium.
1 Cafard, Max. The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto. In Exquisite Corpse Vol. 8 No. 1-4, Baton Rouge: Culture Shock Foundation, 1990