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3~uturism suggests that a weapon simply embodies
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yet another genre of expression:
be it a missile or a
missive, there is always a weapon wherever a utensil is set
free. Atomic weapons, after all, have slmost become the
acme of aesthetic achievement because, like fine art
(slushfunded by the government and stockpiled in
warehouses), such works function as the absolute excess of a
technical sublime, which, if ever allowed to be deployed as
intended, can only result in the kind of dernolition that art
itself has demanded at the extreme of its social revolt.
'~eleuze writes that, "for both Jarry and
Heidegger, Being shows itself in technology by the very fact
that it withdraws from it:
"what defines the loss of Being
is rather the forgetting of forgetting, the withdrawal of
withdrawal" but "this can on19 be comprehended ['lpataphysically[
...,] not metaphysically," and "[tlhis is why Ubu
invents ['Ipataphysics at the same tirne as he promotes
planetary technology" since "it is the culmination of
metaphysics in technology that makes possible the overcoming
of metaphysics, that is, ['Ipataphysics" (1997:93).