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                                       Susan Buck-Morss, Art in the Age of Technological Surveillance


 

setting out,

                    a scarlet flower

          behind an ear,

into the wide

               world     into

                banner-adorned cities

   faking

         permanent festivity
*
       the road

               turns an angle

       like the dateline does

                     near Tuvalu
*
once,   it's said,    anticipating promise,

          they murmured

                    as they crossed,

      ?´Bush'               like

            ´ boo schh      boo schh '

  and

            no  reply

                           came

*
sprained               westoxified

            all-signed-up

                     for ´NightTalker',

     (the wine is under

                   the table somewhere)

       crying becomes

             a critical criterion

(the flower

              discarded )
*
the public sphere

     is

newly            perceptibly

                       losing memory
*
re  mem   ber   Bam,

      Arg-e Bam

ancient city of sand

             and mud

            collapsing in an earthquake,

the cultural heritage building

       slipping   subsiding,

                      consigning

     any record

         of the archaic ruin

                     to dust
*
the memory

         is

               ruined
*
who can accept

           a given world,

who can

     live in it  ?