- This is a manifesto of failure.
- It will succeed if it fails and fail if it succeeds.
- In declaring its aims and its aims at completeness it fails necessarily.
- The complete work of art is a contradiction. The complete joke doubly so.
- It is masculine.
- It is defined by masculine failure. A failure to be masculine and therefore successfully masculine.
- The negative generates the positive but the positive cannot generate the negative.
- Has there not been a great terror cast upon the earth? Do we not tremble in the shadow of a complete irony? And yet it yearns for an impossible completeness.
- To break the limit of the infinite in a finite language.
- To produce the contradiction in the reader without proof.
- To refuse suicide because it is too positive. To remain in the infinite abyss of the negative. To reject the pure unity of death.
- Let us continue to fail or die. To continue to live after success is a sin.
- Neither the first manifesto nor the last. Merely another failure for the pile.
- This is an aging movement. It does not concern the young who do not know the gentle catastrophes of life.
- The practitioners must be freed from the tyranny of sexual rank by age, injury, or failure.
- It is a metaphysics of sex. It is the contradiction of the erection. The inflation that occurs in the genitals of all humankind as a protocontradiction. A protocontradiction that defines the negative masculinity.
- Hypermetadoubledialectics.
- It is at odds.
- At odds with the world and therefore itself.
- It is an incomplete nontotality.
- It is a comedy of anxiety.
- It is a schizophrenic disjunction of text units.
- The I moves around and through it as any word.
- The we is the failure of the cogito.
- The I is complex and not simple.
- The becoming is a failure to be.
- It is not finished. We are not born after it was finished. It has not begun.
¡ungesamtkomödiewerke!
Failed actor descended from a line of failed actors
