Production is its wound. we're its drops of blood, and the area the grave within which it rots. ninety five Such, i feel, is Bowie’s dystopia outlined by way of to be a reactionary security of the ancien régime, Enlightenment’s lethal dialectic. We claim then Celan counters, that God is lifeless and switch ourselves into Gods in basic terms that allows you to kill larger, to exterminate extra however it isn't really. enable me, who grew up at the successfully. we now have turn into heathen. Danton writings of Peter Kropotkin and Gustav is going on, Landauer, to insist: this isn't homage to any monarchy, to any the day prior to this worthy retaining. the area is chaos. Nothingness is the worldgod ready but to be born (das Nichts ist das it really is homage to the majesty of the absurd which zu gebärende Weltgott). bespeaks the presence of humans. Danton’s loss of life ends with Lucile—most Ophelia- This, women and gents, has no definitive like—mounting the stairs of the guillotine the place identify, yet i feel that this is often . . . poetry (die the guards are snoozing. She shouts, “Long stay the Dichtung). King! (Es lebe der König! )” it kind of feels like a suicidal gesture and one imagines that she is quickly dis- Fascinatingly, Celan locations Lucile’s act below the patched, even supposing Büchner leaves the viewers to aegis of Kropotkin’s anarchism of mutual relief and draw that inference. but, Paul Celan, in his justly Landauer’s extra heady mystical anarchism. just a little well-known “Meridian” speech, given whilst accepting additional on, Celan provides what he calls a “topological” the Büchner Prize in 1960, unearths one other that means measurement to this concept. To take Lucile’s step is to Lucile’s phrases. He insists that “It is an act of to determine issues “in a u-topian gentle. ” as a result, the freedom. it's a step. ” If that step could look act of freedom that is poetry is u-topian: ninety six CR I T CHL E Y B O W IE ninety seven We got here into the nearness of the open and direct, and affectless, the 1st model gains the unfastened. and at last into the nearness of Bowie at his so much powerfully histrionic, accom- Utopia. panied by means of a menacing voiceover in eastern by means of Michi Hirota and an insane guitar half by way of Robert Poetry is a step, an act of freedom taken in relation Fripp. The tune finishes with Bowie screaming to a global outlined via the majesty of the absurd, “shut up” over Fripp’s possible unending, repeat- a human global. therefore, Büchner’s dystopia is the ing guitar riff. situation for utopia. My simply genuine considered Bowie is that his paintings can also be this kind of step. It units us What Bowie describes is a Büchnerian international of loose in terms of a civilization that's petrified terror. the 1st line, “Silhouettes and shadows and useless. One doesn't repair up a home that's watch the revolution,” describes the languor and falling off a cliff. Bowie’s dystopia is utopian in sadness of a post-revolutionary scenario. equivalent degree. In an allusion to Eddie Cochran’s posthumously published 1960 hit, there are not any longer “three i feel this concept casts a unique gentle on steps to heaven.