A Further Explanation of My Last Error
By Pier Paolo Pasolini
Louis-Georges Schwartz
I historicized
sexualities in order to create a virtual rupture in the lived
experience of my audience, opening them to the potential for new
practices, for example when I presented myself as a slave, a young girl,
at auction. I picked a young boy to buy me. I gave him my money. I
told him to get us shelter. We fucked there. He didn’t know how to
fuck. He was so very young he did not know how to fuck. Soon he figured
it out. No: I showed him. I was a great artist. I told my new
boyfriend to sell my art but not to a white man, because the white man
will separate us. My intervention in the life-world of my audience
depended on an accurate analysis of that world, but it was changing
more rapidly than I could grasp when I began. Nevertheless, I had found a
way to speak as a poet of what I hadn’t experienced. [...] Where everything is
transgression, there is no more danger. Neither Art nor Underground
cinema had the capacity to intervene. Power, any power, is evil,
whether it preserves institutions or whether it founds new ones. If a
power which is “less worse” than others is conceivable, this could only
be a Power that, in preserving or reconstituting the norm also took
into account the appearances or reappearances of reality. Perhaps even
such a power cannot intervene in the life-world. Our failure was the
failure to consider that possibility.
[mashup goes further on World Picture 6]
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