15.11.2020
The Future to Be Born Will Start as a Narrative of an Artistic Gesture
The poor jesters fluttering gestures
stirs up a fierce cloud of red dust
blinding the courts
choking the sovereign
come headless kingdom
come jovial art
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
In two chapters of his Prison Notebooks – “Wave of Materialism” and “Crisis of Authority” – Antonio Gramsci describes a state of crisis determined by the fall of the leadership of the ruling class maintaining their dominance solely by coercive force leaving the masses in the process of ideological transformation.