24th October-PINK exhibition concept Research; Self/Creative destruction

24th October- PINK exhibition concept Research; 

'Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.' ~Chuck Palahniuk

Initial thoughts, research and reflection on PINK exhibition concept. 

Self-destruction

https://nocenslupus.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/a-philosophy-of-self-destruction/

Above link was an interesting modern reflection of the philosophical side of self-destruction. This is interesting when overlooking self-destruction as ever increasing modernity. The world around is (economy) is filled with products that not only harm our body but also the greater environment we depend upon. This is a new phenomenon which traps individuals and puts misplaced blame readily upon them.

This generalization of self-destruction however does not consider the individual torture of the desire for self-destruction but also the ever historical presence of self-destruction. It is difficult if not impossible to know if this is a modern problem. Self harm, suicide and destruction has always been a part of the human condition however a more globalised society means social paranoia plagues personality. 

This can also be looked at from a more psychological point of view. The how of the philosophy behind the issue.  

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-self-destructive-behavior/201512/understanding-self-destructive-dysregulated-behaviors

Dysregulating behaviours; are clearly pivotal to this concept. The initial relief you feel from these behaviours overrides the long term rationalisation. (initial pleasure of looking at the flower with knowledge that they will deteriorate.)  

A vast amount of extraneous factors influence this and individuals self destruction can not be boiled down into any one factor. However, collective self destruction arises from individual actions within the collective. The drive to get relief will always grow. 

Capitalism and mental illness

Willful blindness as a self defence mechanism?

Creative destruction 

Although the modern term "creative destruction" is not used explicitly by Marx, it is largely derived from his analyses, particularly in the work of Werner Sombart (whom Engels described as the only German professor who understood Marx's Capital),[12] and of Joseph Schumpeter, who discussed at length the origin of the idea in Marx's work.

In The Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described the crisis tendencies of capitalism in terms of "the enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces":

'Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. [...] It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the whole of bourgeois society on trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of existing production, but also of previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity – the epidemic of overproduction. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions. […] And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.[3]'

The mention of the 'out of control' 'machine' is the approaching disaster that humanity faces. The PINK piece mocks this while integrating it, the relic of the flowers shows a society that has destroyed itself yet preserves the corpse. The glass in which the flowers find themselves offer as a transparent barrier; which many suffer today. The view of the truth and our own self destruction yet the feeling of powerlessness. The observation of the past. The barbaric society that claims to be progressive in an economic sense is leading itself toward disaster. There is the opposing theology here, of course, that humanity is intended to lead itself toward extinction. That the next step of evolution is extinction of the 'smartest' species. However, the amount of destruction, suffering and injustice along the way is avoidable. The relics of our past and the fast pace deterioration of our environment should spark fear and opposition not further pain. Therefore, here, a combination of creative destruction and self-destruction is visualised. The delicate nature of the work will hopefully stand away from the very bright exhibition space boasting much of what my work opposes.