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Let There Be a Moving Mosaic of This Rich Material

from Words and Silences by Brian Harnetty

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Let There Be a Moving Mosaic of This Rich Material
Merton Archive Tape 214-08

May 19th. Uh, to my mind one of the most important books I’ve read this year, or have been reading this year, is the Foucault book, Michel Foucault on Madness and Civilization. A most rich book, as far as material is concerned. But also important for many other reasons. First of all because it nowhere preaches anything. Rather, [it] lets the material speak for itself.

The salutary effect on me is to see suddenly how partial and how limited my own preachments are, my own temptations to say that such and such a thing is the cause of such and such a phenomenon, and this is right and this is wrong, and so forth. It is polarizing. It’s a very limited, a very weak approach to reality. And it’s much better, instead of polarizing, to make mosaics of all the material that is there, to take the material as it is. Natural and social.

But anyway, polarizing nature against the city, the woods against the city, the contemplative life against the active life, and so forth. All this can be, it has its partial truth but only partial, and there is no point in getting limited to the partial. It’s better to be free and range around, and take your material where you find it. Not pass final judgement on it, not try to stabilize. Let there be a moving mosaic of this rich material. And perhaps tape can help to do this. To uh, renounce more and more the temptation to give definite answers and to be more and more humble and honest in the search for the relevant material, which may suggest here and there good ideas or possibilities of new approaches. To be able to throw things together and look at them and then let the picture dissolve and let other elements come together.

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Brian Harnetty Columbus, Ohio

Interdisciplinary artist using sound and listening to foster social change. Recordings on Winesap, Karl, Dust-to-Digital, Atavistic, and Scioto Records.

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