Chaos and Revolution By John Moore From Green Anarchist #62         Chaos and Revolution.         Poet who will treat this order of events.         It is not his field.         But are there still fields, distinct from reality,                 which can be expanded on or organised?         That is the whole question!                 (Artaud Chaos and Revolution: embodying chaos enacting revolution embodying chaos as the realisation of revolution enacting revolution as the realisation of chaos the poet as the axis which turns the wheel                                        (Revolution, Latin re-uoluere. and sets it in motion                                                   to turn, overturn, overthrow, revolve the poet as the matrix                                        (Chaos, Greek, χασζ, of revolutionary (re)generation                                   abyss, lit. a cleft, fig. a cunt the poet as agency                                                    (Poet, Greek πσιητηζ, of 'this order of events'                                              a maker That is the whole question! Chaos and Revolution: total insurrection against reality                                                 (the order of things                                                 structured by relations of                                                 power and authority                                                 the spectacular organisation of appearances                                                 the virtual reality                                                 that supplants actuality                                                 in the digital society the creative dissolution of reality                         (for when the poetic mind acts,                         it is always inclined                         towards a kind of fiery anarchy,                         poetry's total disintegration of reality                                 (Artaud through the definition of fields                                fields of activity the elaboration of projects                                 projects of self-realisation 'distinct from reality' through the definition of fields                                fields of activity the elaboration of projects                                 projects of self-realisation 'distinct from reality' That is the whole question! Chaos and Revolution: the realisation of chaos here and now         Anarchy hath no limits         nor is circumscribed         in one self place         for where we are is anarchy         and where anarchy is         must we ever be a rejection of illusions and fantasies. primal anarchy and utopian futures chaos inheres in the present moment         and nowhere else inhabit the moment realise the moment act this moment and anything can happen the moment for revolution is always                                                                                             now! for chaos is always                                         and only                                                                         with us                                                                                                                 now! the realisation of chaos in revolution at this moment That is the whole question! Chaos and Revolution: the constant practice of every-instant anarchy the spontaneous creation of life 'distinct from reality' the revolution of everyday life the realisation of lived poetry in the moment of insurrectionary chaos and the collapse of the totality of power the poetry                         (made by all                                         (Lautréamont of lived experience the removal of masks and the recovery of one's original face                                                                         What was your original face                                                                         before your parents were born? love, passion, volition, imagination ebbing and flowing tides delightful surface patterns shimmering and scintillant but in the dark unfathomable depths the vast equanimity of the abyss the realisation of the wisdom of chaos never lost and thus never found but perpetually present in a practice that affirms neither indifference nor attachment: living anarchy: nothing special That is the whole question!