AI edits: “I want a president”
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-"The century that trusted in the future" started to dissolve in 1977, says Franco "Bifo" Berardi. Since then the society has fragmented to a point that it became un-recomposable. Recomposition means people finding a common ground for understanding and act together for a common goal. "Human beings perform productive actions, but they are not conscious actors of what they are doing, and seem unable to join their feelings and thought in a common space of consciousness." Since we are unable to act together, the future has become something that happens to us. A kind of unavoidable catastrophe that we cannot oppose in any way.
+"The century that trusted in the future" started to dissolve in 1977, says Franco "Bifo" Berardi. Since then society has fragmented to the point that it has become un-recomposable. Recomposition means people finding a common ground for understanding and acting together for a common goal. "Human beings perform productive actions, but they are not conscious actors of what they are doing, and seem unable to join their feelings and thought in a common space of consciousness." Since we are unable to act together, the future has become something that happens to us. A kind of unavoidable catastrophe that we cannot oppose in any way.
-Utopias turned to be something from yore. Even in leftist movement, "revolution" is ceased to be something to be taken seriously. Revolution is unpossible [sic] to imagine today.
+Utopias turned into something of yore. Even in the leftist movement, "revolution" has ceased to be something to be taken seriously. Revolution is unpossible [sic] to imagine today.
<img src="https://hypersubject.b-cdn.net/images/i-want-a-president/IMG_0718.jpeg" />
-Kerry James Marshall, born in 1955, is a member of the last generation who trusted in the future. In New York Public Library I saw _Keeping the Culture_, his futuristic depiction of a black family on a spaceship outside of solar system. The interior of the ship is decorated with African art. They are uprooted from their birthplace yet at home in their identity. Whether this is Marshall keeping the flame alive for the future or reminiscing what could have been, I don't know.
+Kerry James Marshall, born in 1955, is a member of the last generation that trusted in the future. In the New York Public Library I saw _Keeping the Culture_, his futuristic depiction of a Black family on a spaceship outside of the solar system. The interior of the ship is decorated with African art. They are uprooted from their birthplace yet at home in their identity. Whether this is Marshall keeping the flame alive for the future or reminiscing about what could have been, I don't know.
-Thinking about the future, I then noticed the photocopy of Zoe Leonard's typewritten poem. It was also about the future. But apparently from a member of my generation: the one who lost its trust in the future. She's questioning why the future she wants is unpossible [sic].
+Still thinking about the future, I noticed the photocopy of Zoe Leonard's typewritten poem. It was also about the future. But apparently from a member of my generation: the one that lost its trust in the future. She's questioning why the future she wants is unpossible [sic].
<img src="https://hypersubject.b-cdn.net/images/i-want-a-president/IMG_0670.jpeg" />
Here's the full text:
> I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of. two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down torest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no airconditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth ~~and attitude~~, someone who has eaten ~~that nasty~~ hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and, been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn't possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.
-"I want to know why this isn't possible." Me too. The chances of someone who has the CV like above being more competent than any of the clowns in charge of our governments is crazy high. Yet it's impossible to even imagine a black dyke as president now. She could only be the leader people needed, not the president they wanted. The collective subject that would've made her leadership possible could only stem from a catastrophe. "The catastrophe is exactly the point where a new landscape is going to be revealed. ... Poetry and therapy (thera-poetry) will be the forces leading to the creation of a cognitarian self-consciousness: not a political party, not the organization of interests, but the reactivation of the cognitarian sensibility."
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+"I want to know why this isn't possible." Me too. The chances of someone who has a CV like the one above being more competent than any of the clowns in charge of our governments are crazy high. Yet it's impossible to even imagine a Black dyke as president now. She could only be the leader people needed, not the president they wanted. The collective subject that would've made her leadership possible could only stem from a catastrophe. "The catastrophe is exactly the point where a new landscape is going to be revealed. ... Poetry and therapy (thera-poetry) will be the forces leading to the creation of a cognitarian self-consciousness: not a political party, not the organization of interests, but the reactivation of the cognitarian sensibility."AI grammar fixes
Since then the society has fragmented to a point that it became→Since then society has fragmented to the point that it has becomeunderstanding and act together→understanding and acting togetherUtopias turned to be something from yore→Utopias turned into something of yoreEven in leftist movement, "revolution" is ceased→Even in the leftist movement, "revolution" has ceasedIn New York Public Library→In the New York Public Libraryoutside of solar system→outside of the solar systemreminiscing what could have been→reminiscing about what could have beenthe CV like above→a CV like the one aboveThe chances ... is crazy high→The chances ... are crazy high
AI suggestions and status
| # | Suggestion | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poem typos (“torest”, “lesser of. two evils”, “layed off”, “harrassed”, “and, been”): add a [sic] note, or check them against the photo | Not addressed |
| 2 | ”finding a common ground” → “finding common ground” | Not addressed |
| 3 | ”A kind of unavoidable catastrophe…” is a fragment; could join it to the previous sentence | Not addressed |
| 4 | Pick one capitalization of “black”/“Black” | Addressed: “Black family”, “Black dyke” |
| 5 | ”generation who” → “generation that” | Addressed: both instances |
| 6 | ”Thinking about the future, I then noticed…” → “Still thinking about the future, I noticed…” | Addressed |
| 7 | Add a sentence in the last paragraph linking catastrophe back to recomposition | Not addressed |