A Revolution of the Whole Body By John Moore From Green Anarchist #64-65 1.                 Revolutionary theory is now                 the enemy of all                 revolutionary ideology                 and knows it                         (Debord Revolutionary theory is now      (as ever the enemy of all Revolutionary theory is now      (as ever the enemy of all                         In a subject posing as revolutionary                         theory is a despotism                         everyone should recognise this                                 (Camatte Revolutionary theory:                                (Theory, Greek qeouria, not the negation of the spectacle                a beholding, contemplation, but its realisation                               speculation; qeouroz, a in the spectacular conceptualisation of revolt     spectator a falsehood, a counterfeit a jargon of deceit a calculus of abstraction the enemy of all and knows it Revolutionary theory, revolutionary ideology: mind-forg'd manacles fettering palpitating flesh - the enemy of living revolution and knows it                                 Nothing                                 moves me                                 or interests me                                 except what addresses itself                                 directly to my body                                         (Artaud Living revolution: a revolution of magic and anatomical metamorphosis         not entering a new world         but leaving a false world the realisation of a new, living and liberated body         through                         gesture     sound                         rhythm     movement an elimination of conceptual thought          (If you can only                                                 rid yourselves of conceptual thought,                                                 you will have accomplished               everything                                                         (Huang Po a transformation of consciousness         a direct nonconceptual experience of reality         rooted in the perpetual moment of instant anarchy a shattering of language                     (It is not a case of                                                         abolishing the articulated word,                                                         but of giving words                                                         something of the importance                                                         which they have in dreams                                                                 (Artaud a disassembly of the human body         and its visionary reconstitution         as an autonomous entity         emptied of contents         but replete with         the fullness of the void a dismantlement of all         ideologies systems doctrines parties         in a total revolution against power         in all its guises Anarchy now! realised             (not by revolutionary theory, revolutionary ideology but through                         gesture     sound                         rhythm     movement         screams of refusal and negation         cries of affirmation and ecstasy pointing grimacing beckoning scowling applauding grinning howling grunting moaning wailing sighing shrieking fluttering undulating throbbing vibrating whirling pulsating lunging leaping capering gambolling spinning balancing blood mucous tears piss shit cum                                                                 (birth pleasure pain death                                                                 transmutative immutability                                                                 partaken without                                                                 attachment or indifference a re-embodiment realised through physical revolution                 expressing the urges                 underlying, preceding and disfigured                 by words                 but experienced through                         gesture     sound                         rhythm     movement A convulsive flailing dancing reinhabited body    (Beauty will be convulsive                                                                 or will not be at all                                                                         (Breton and yet a still tranquil composed attentive body  (Find the silence                                                                 which contains thoughts                                                                         (Hakuin An insurrectional body in open daily revolt against the totality of power 2. A total revolution: a       (revolution of the whole body         without which nothing can be changed a       (true organic and physical         transformation of the whole body                 (Artaud a remaking of the body through anotomical metamorphosis a regrounding in the energies seated in the depths of the belly A revolution of the whole body against Abstract Man and totalitarian manegerial domination and control systems                                         revolutionary theory and revolutionary ideology                                                 the enemy of all                                                 and knows it                                         'lifelong learning'                                                 the State                                                 deployment of education                                                 to manufacture                                                                 social discipline                                                                 flexible productive capacities                                                                 consumer identities                                                 and generate revenue                                                 the digital counter-revolution                                                         the cybernetic encodement                                                         of human personality                                                         as data                                                         in the                                                                 disembodied                                                                 commodified                                                         tech/no/space                                                         of virtual reality A total revolution of the whole body against (the anatomical order on which the existence as well as the duration of actual society is based         (Artaud The great unlearning: a spewing up of guts a shitting out of innards a disgorging of socio-economic order a purging of renunciation an evacuation of abstraction and control A stripping away of non-being                 through                         gesture     sound                         rhythm     movement until the ordinary marvellousness and the marvellous ordinariness of universal chaos emerges and the gateless gate opens