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Becoming chaos
In a meeting of the surrealist movement, Tristan Tzara proposed to create a poem removing words of a hat. As a result, he was expelled from the movement. The idea went against the automatic writing because the flow of words came not from a psychic automatism, but from an arbitrary strange instance, a purely artificial production, precisely the way of Brion Gysin using words as images to compose a collage of text. William Burroughs, Gyson's friend, rigorously applied these ideas to writing methods such as cut up, fold in or splice in. The exciting thing about these random and even chaotic methods is its potential for becoming. With the possibility to produce everything, achieve a sort of machinic power that will always create dissimilar results, an efficiency that will never remain silent, a conscience that will always have something to say.
In a meeting of the surrealist movement, Tristan Tzara proposed to create a poem removing words of a hat. As a result, he was expelled from the movement. The idea went against the automatic writing because the flow of words came not from a psychic automatism, but from an arbitrary strange instance, a purely artificial production, precisely the way of Brion Gysin using words as images to compose a collage of text. William Burroughs, Gyson's friend, rigorously applied these ideas to writing methods such as cut up, fold in or splice in. The exciting thing about these random and even chaotic methods is its potential for becoming. With the possibility to produce everything, achieve a sort of machinic power that will always create dissimilar results, an efficiency that will never remain silent, a conscience that will always have something to say.