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Arson/Art: A Manifesto

Arson/Art: A Manifesto 157 Arson/Art: A Manifesto DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2013-0009 DAVID BRIAN HOWARD Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), University in Halifax "¿Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan! Do you like this garden, that is yours? See to it that your children do not destroy it!" (Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963: 235.) "Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't do anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse ­ these I will not inventory but allow in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them." (Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of the University of Harvard Press, 1999: 460.) "Pride, the supreme value, appears when suffering is infinite; it is nothing more than the permanent, unflinching consciousness through experienced pain of one's implicit capacity for suffering. Unhappiness and pride are at the origin of the soul. The first creates the "wound," the second, refusing any remedies, explores its features, the sum of unhappiness it can bear. This is why Satan, after his arrogant declaration, doesn't http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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157 Arson/Art: A Manifesto DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2013-0009 DAVID BRIAN HOWARD Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), University in Halifax "¿Le gusta este jardín, que es suyo? ¡Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan! Do you like this garden, that is yours? See to it that your children do not destroy it!" (Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963: 235.) "Method of this project: literary montage. I needn't do anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse ­ these I will not inventory but allow in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them." (Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of the University of Harvard Press, 1999: 460.) "Pride, the supreme value, appears when suffering is infinite; it is nothing more than the permanent, unflinching consciousness through experienced pain of one's implicit capacity for suffering. Unhappiness and pride are at the origin of the soul. The first creates the "wound," the second, refusing any remedies, explores its features, the sum of unhappiness it can bear. This is why Satan, after his arrogant declaration, doesn't

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