Picnoleptic suggestions for the Chinese Politburo

co The Poliburo of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (PSCCCC) vigilantly  attends to all the material and psychic needs of the citizens. The citizens also need to be vigilant especially when interruptions occur in PSCCCC thinking. Recently Wen Jiabao warned against a return to the Cultural Revolution.Was he thinking of the overly zealous local actions of Bo Xilai and his wife? Or did he have in mind the ups and downs of Confucianism; once seen as midieval and next as fostering loyalty to the state but now perhaps a political threat?  The PSCCCC could learn from Kafka's Great Wall of China; workers on the wall operate a system of piecemeal construction so that once a 1000 yards is completed then, after due celebrations, the High Command transport them faraway to start another 1000 yard section; on this journey they see innumerable other partial sections of wall in the process of completion accompanied by the usual celebrations and so on for ever. These are stories of the mass management of peoples which pay careful attention to the mental states of wall builders; only this section of wall is ever visible. But yet more care could be lavished on the worker's soul. Specifically what is the optimal mental state for perpetual interruption? How do I best cope with only ever experiencing a 'bit' and never a whole? It is possible to make mass use of Virilio's idea of  picnolepsy where the worker's ego is not continuous but made up a series of little deaths with fits; during each fit there is no awareness only oblivion. It is in principal possible to calibrate the timing of fits with those moments when the High Command is planning to move wall workers to a new location; a process of inducing oblivion is required; the PSCCCC can adopt a similar routine to coincide with their periodic ideological interrruptions To imagine this, from the perspective of the worker's experience, just take a look at the fitful aspect of many of the dance sequences in Pina Bausch's Cafe Muller. The figures shake and convulse. Perhaps Gombrowicz is thinking of these Chinese wall builders when he talks about the 'grimace'; a picnoleptic fit is sure to make the victim grimace like the 'grimace duellists' in Ferdydurke.

damien hirst and Munch

Damien Hirst gets helpers to finish or do all of this art work. He says 'I can't be arsed doing it'. Houellebecq in his recent novel depicts Hirst and Koons dividing up the art market for fun. Why not go a step further and be like Tom Ripley who invents a fictional artist to make money: Derwatt. Derwatt acquires a reputation and value even though the paintings are fakes. There is a difference as Ripley gets Bernard Tufts, another character, to do the fakes. We never see Derwatt. Ripley invents the idea that the artist is living in Mexico. It is a pity Hirst lacks the bottle to do the same. We might hear more about all the underpaid Bernard Tufts (not even the mininum wage) that he employs to do his work so we'd never  have to see or listen to him;
Imagine if Peter Watkins was to make a film about Hirst following the method he uses in his film about Munch. Watkins criticizes the monoform nature of much cinema-fast paced linear narrative to keep people in their seats. In his film about Munch there is not one form but many. Almost in one shot we hear the artist coughing (TB), see an image of his childhood (more TB), one of his portraits and footage of writers etc who formed his intellectual milieu (Strindberg et al); also, spoken over, is a timeline of his era. How are these levels of representation to be worked out for Damien Hirst? If Watkins was to make a film (Munch-like) of Damien Hirst he can find material for every representational level from Youtube:

1. Damien + mates shouting and swearing at the Groucho club
2. an image of some his 'spots'-the ones he bothered to do himself
3. timeline of his era-Trump, Kardashian, Jade Goody (for sentiment)
4. Similar to Munch coughing the Hirst film needs kitsch sound to accompany the 'spots'; available from Amazon are Kitchen Craft-n-Fun Animal Sound Magnetic Clips (Energy Class A+). Each clip (spot) makes the noise of the pictured animal and is activated by simply opening the clip (spot). The clips (spots) have a magnet to fix on your fridge.