‘Chained to the centre of the cross, at the meeting point of the mad ambitions of the East and West…an empty space geometrically defined, but with its meaning never clarified’
‘The protagonist of the future should lose the narcissistic demeanours that ultimately lead to a lethargic state of being, a primordial, passive state. Instead of seeing the dream-filled sleep as a collective characteristic of consumer society – or what Walter Benjamin calls a naturalising Traumschlaf – this community of the future should use the act of dreaming as a state of full immersion, a speculative condition where the prospect of a better future can be imagined.’
‘The zero level of being: empty being, empty writing, so that we now live in a vacuum, in empty space where all words and all actions seem to have no meeting at all’
Hope, superior to fear, is neither passive like the latter, nor locked into nothingness
All quotes lifted from ‘The age of nothingness’ by Petrica Mogos in the prologue (‘An Empty Utopia’) to Kajet Issue 2 (A Journal of Eastern European encounters) on Utopias. The quotes themselves are from the IRWIN collective, Petricia Mogos, Mikhail Epstein, Ernst Bloch