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Gutterland JargonWatch™: "Concept-Machine" Edition 
Friday, April 14, 2006

newweapon.jpgIt wouldn't be a properly observed Good Friday without a nod towards those more inclined to make it a Bad Friday. Or, more accurately, a Jargon-riffic Saturday. To get you started, the Gutter is pleased compelled to present these latest "sentences" from Broken Thought, straight from the concept-machine's mouth itself, affixed to a charming invitation, and pimping tomorrow's opening of "The New Weapon: ecstasy and threat, coldness and whisper."

A dramatic synthesis envisioned and executed by the Center's two founders, Dean Lukic and Jason Mohaghegh, "THE NEW WEAPON" is a veritable chaos-poem that sets words and images—no less than existence itself—on fire.
One would be right to wonder who could possibly come up with something so veritably existence-questioning itself. One would be right to ask. And one would be right to read on for what could (veritably) constitute on answer.
The Center for Broken Thought is a concept-machine whose purpose is to proliferate and produce ideas that are visceral and sharp. By initiating a movement called "The Breaking," the Center for Broken Thought emerged in September 2005 at Columbia University with the urgency to innovate concepts and modes of experience that emanate force and desire.
How very necessary.

· Events of Broken Thought [Broken Thought]
· Existential Movement Debuts on Campus Life [Columbia Spectator]


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Reader Comments (6 extant)

1.

“We are oblivious and indifferent to those who can’t find themselves somewhere within this. We provide such a multiplicity of existential possibilities,” Mohaghegh said. “The ones who come and say this has nothing to offer me ... for us, they are condemned, they are lost.”

good grief.

somebody sew their fingers together so they can pick up a hammer or a shovel, and do something useful with their fishy little lives

By the admonisher at April 14, 2006 4:03 PM

2.

craptastic!

By ando's dog at April 14, 2006 4:38 PM

3.

"The center for Broken Thought is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit-corporation, which means that all contributions are tax-deductable… If you are inclined to support our factory of concepts on any level, or want to discuss mutual benefits, please contact us"

“We want to diverge as a new species”- Dean Lukic

This raises the agreeable possibility of paying them to all go live off in a compound in the desert somewhere where they can inbreed until they are their own species... provided they can find someone to deliver decent chai and hummus for 8 generations.

By Frankie "Knuckles" Gehry at April 17, 2006 3:35 PM

4.


Everyone here seems to be blind, deaf, and dumb to the most innovative and dangerous movement around. If the rest of you possessed any sensitivity whatsoever, you would realize how fierce broken thought is, what force and complexity it possesses. Pure thirst, pure fangs. I can see that, and I am a total outsider. Christ, reading such moronic reactions here makes me realize how different they are than these ordinary types who are writing here without anything creative to say. Cynicism is a pathetic impulse, and usually comes from people who should but do not have the decency to just own up to their own emptiness and put themselves out of their own misery. No these guys really are a "new species", a much higher one.


By Threat at May 7, 2006 1:28 PM

5.


Broken Thought is sheer delirium, visions of the most extreme temperature. And it's true, what the hell is wrong with the people who are commenting here? I've been watching as this Broken Thought movement unfolds, and it's seriously the most provocative and powerful undertaking I've witnessed in the contemporary scene (and I'm always keeping my eyes open for something original, and most often disappointed). Just go read their website--the lines they write are beyond beautiful, and somehow savage at the same time, "both innocent and cruel" as they would say. And what the ... is that comment about them picking up a shovel and going to work--thanks dad, but if the most interesting thing you have to say is some ethical cliche about how "hard work builds character" then please go watch CNN and stop pretending you are in any way artistically inclined. Are you really that ridiculously stupid? These guys are criminal in their thoughts, they tear apart everything they touch and wrench open new spaces of experience right in the heart of our lives. Thank god they're not wasting their time in the banal everyday and doing something "useful". I'm glad that the rest of you are such sell-outs who think that you are doing something good by "staying real", which is to say staying enslaved in the real, but broken thought from what I can tell from the events is already far beyond that surrender. No chains, just infliction. They know what they want, and they take it. Game over. Brilliant.


By Absurdist at May 7, 2006 1:39 PM

6.

here here! i love how people continually whine how "art is dead," yet when something new and provocative finally comes along, they never actually realize it and call it pretentious instead. (but what can you expect from someone who calls himself "the admonisher"? daddy figure indeed!) frankly, i'm open to any form of literature/visual art that goes beyond "bush = bad" these days. no shit sherlock, how about something new? anyway, i thought the website was fab.

By odi et amo at May 8, 2006 1:31 PM



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