The fundamental question to achieve an increasingly accurate view of modern capitalism, far from superficialities and platitudes, can be summarized in the question with which Georg Lukacs sets the research agenda of its reification in History and Class Consciousness (1923): to what extent the exchange of goods and its structural consequences can influence the whole the inner and outer life of society? In a sense, this is a concern that is at the beginning of the contemporary social and political thought, natural corollary of the Marxist perspective of the ultimate determination of the existence of consciousness. To the extent that a foreign power that appears to determine from the policy and law to the ways to build and inhabit cities and the smallest details of social life, including domestic privacy, "it would be absurd that the same literature does not finished presenting a deviation from the goal that once prevailed, as all other areas of human endeavor: that humanity abstract Enlightenment emerged as center of the world.
For example, the speaker addressing the poem from an absolute deficiency in this speaker, unable to reach the fertile essential metamorphosis encouraging poetry in its most self-more focused on their most intimate principles and origins, "in which neither even have a sign to validate the text from his own humanity: this speaker has been recognized and the need to stick to a record and precarious object quantitative stripped of real value and only capable of arbitrary powers of direction and location within the broad market spectacular in the world has become. Technical observation is made, from this perspective, the sister of contemplation distant and alienated from those who believe, even in spite of the conditions of precariousness and absurdity under which suffers.
This is absolutely vital in trying to define the poetics of Alfonso Grez, who this year published 2010 First Set Poems (Santiago: Ed Fan), a set of three books: Applied Science, and DEFCON 3 Spot , while a selection of texts included in the set by Editions du Temple, centrifuge. The continuing challenge of poetry is precisely to move Greg to the reader the illusion of a possible artistic beauty in the portrait of contemporary society. The large model is the city inhabited that deconstruct index fingers as a child, the descerebrito / as held by their parents in a poem Applied Science (third section of the book, "views of the neighborhood") unfolds before the substance of any attribute aesthetic Styrofoam, and the operation which is unarmed skill does not imply or violence. The subject comes from his humanity with urban material as if it was indeed within the human dimensions is outside any system of knowledge or self-consciousness, and the administration of contemporary life loses all rationality, focusing precisely on its ability to be dismantled , destroyed, discarded. To be, rather than anything else, the waste as the basis of this world is one of the most powerful insights poetic Greg:
all the world's landfills
in the center
same
of
the land. Unlike
is dealing with this material from a will that could call management, from the perspective of the quantifier alienated assumed absolute objectivity of what lies beneath. When choosing a perspective that involves itself in the excellence of knowledge, and real improvement of the paradoxes that arise humanist view of contemporary society-but only stopping at the quantitative dimension, without trying to turn into a dialectic that takes the reality at its most touch-, to take this step within the field of writing, Greg is able to to reach records that in any other context would be an empty experimentation, but not so here. Indeed, in these books, the horizon of poetry can take the starting point of a radar screen or television, the official report writer to support statistical variables or alarm. It is the particular expression of under DEFCON 3 , which is capable of taking on an issue so far of contemporary Chilean poetry and new emerging political and economic realities of globalization in its most media and transform them into poetic material. The cold light of the violence of modern warfare and terrorist actions in which the adjectives are located just to give-back spectacular dimension to any condemnation or vindication, must in this sense be read as an act of force , forcing the reader to find the folds of meaning in their own eyes. This view can not be other than the contemplative .
Since the figure of the aesthetic subject after the poetry of Greg is that of the viewer, in its most liability. Its most direct figuration is one of the first poems of Applied Science :
(applied science)
well with everything.
and roots of a satellite looking down
moisture from a body that watches television.
passive
The extreme situation of this body and the reality is that antenna top let him see how the outcome of historical processes that accompany capitalism in its spectacular stage-debordiana perspective, "whose inactivity creature not is by no means free from productive activity (...) Depends on it, is anxious and admiring submission to the needs and production results (thesis 27, La société du spectacle ). Thus, the fate of these beings in a city whose experience and willingness contemplata manageable taken away from them any other choices that they could become subject civilians is characterized in one of the poems in his coldness closed Applied Science:
asked after his death his bones
bathed in aluminum and bronze
joined them in candlesticks candlesticks
an impressive operatic
lamp
epicenter
ceiling of the room.
lover asked his wife
be ashes on the salt
be ashes in
pepper on the dining table condiment
to live.
survived by his children were very pale
sitting at the breakfast lunch dinner table.
once human beings are increasingly becoming more perfect parts of a production chain also perfect, and all the imperfect forgotten dimension of experience. Although there may be a bodily experience, this is already inseparable from production chains increasingly complex, it is assumed an increasingly absolute need for the human material input (auxiliary input that is necessary for the occurrence of a production process, but that is not a tangible part of the product or co-products emerge from the process) to create a commodity whose reality status is invariably higher. This is precisely defined in the poems called "body art" that the extreme nature of fragmentation and technological management of the character of the artist reception is required at the entrance to direct anthologies / the great world of art and great applause . The banishment of all claims naturalness is pointed at the instant the artist subjected to amputation and looting of their vital organs (for supported by tubes and machines / living / that beat and flash / breathing for him) is a
fabulous show
broadcast live over a thousand young men who shared
galleries
guests canapés and champagne
provide in multiple languages \u200b\u200blook
ties and dresses are the highest
sewing, then the blood
again (...) body
surgical situation the artist is an add-grotesque "zero point" of man, which describes infants sealed / insulated, airtight and his act of entering the world is rather the opposite: the world is entering them through the holes and artificial cuts made to them surgically. The only clue about the subjects that make these cuts and holes is the empirical word appears only to those who set out to define and describe the process. This figure of "managing things" is absent over the books, and this absence seems to reveal the core of fatalism that animates the poetry of Greg, the only possibility of knowledge and experience for this poetic subject is precisely the attitude of cool technologist. The horizon of their perception becomes, then, from the same construction of texts, under the imminent demise of humanity and its natural resources of knowledge and experience.
is how a book of poems Spot-third of the set-is precisely what may be the last possible perspective: the more radical masking the alienation of human being with regard to their own humanity, the presentation of life experience as a figurehead synthetic relationship between consumers and goods. Spot program is to make a fairly delimited a series of television commercials, giving the author the privilege of a role merely rhetorical, but the result ends up being precisely the same general program of the set: the affirmation of the reality of the world's top things things about communicating with a possible (this self, virtual) human world. The voluntary coldness of the description makes clear the absolute objectification of experience, as in the case of this notice of accident prevention (similarly titled "product" as the rest of the poems in the book are advertisements in its own right) :
first a shoe that flies (and the history of shoe
) then the child who walks the street extremely moneymoney
environment, life promises feet
child then fit, then comes the self
(specific color and model) then the driver
(full name) (your grade ethyl)
after the shock of the above and the shoe
flying.
ironic resources increase the distance of the speaker, emphasizing the role of passive spectator. Its precise location is only understandable from the moment he assumed the dimension artificial and empty world presented in these poems. The effective way out of any possible means naturally found a new artificiality, and it is from here that the poetry of Greg loses all literary in its own right. Halfway between the rhetoric of journalistic description and technological discourse, the formation of this new poetry requires a deep rethinking of what it could be assumed as the author's political rise. The author has left the political arena: his shadow on the text is unable to recognize socially significant experience in continuous contemplation, its reflection is disarmed as a sum of parts quantitatively determined. The same author succumbs to the radical dehumanization of contemporary experience. Politics as such, the situation regarding of being in the polis, is revealed by absence, and so the violence of his revelation is harder and clear.
Books published by Alfonso Grez is one of the most significant in what has appeared in this couple of years of commemorative fallacies. In the fiction of a national community as a banner made by the directors of the show, Greg is able to introduce radical dispossession of any contemporary capitalist society, that behind the reconciled community through the antennas and their transmission, silent operation rests a complete human being whose findings were rooted in ancient history impossible to anchor. At the same time, behind romantic complement the political opposition in the classical left (or want to be) you wish to raise old rhetoric as a sign of strength, the crushing cold of the poetic world of Greg shows the tragic failure of the relationship until today a mechanistic conception content compilers wanted to establish between artistic activity and political action. The role of an author like Greg is perhaps one of the saddest and necessary, show limits.
must also highlight the extraordinary bill First Set, both in regard to the books themselves as to its appearance as a whole. The design, done by Hector Barroso in conjunction with the author, these books give the privilege of being one of the editions of poetry kept and attractive than in many years have appeared in our country. At the same time, enriched Temple Editions Centrifuge Store, at a time of new life into a publishing project that will undoubtedly already have their name inscribed safely in the literary history of our country.
