Hi-density Politics

In Hi-Density Politics, Urayoán Noel hurls himself out of himself towards what actually “happens” in the world – deep ideological dalliance with A = not-A’s, B’s = C’s. As mediator “between cultures”, mashing up newly found “passions” to cultural funk-outs, he is ever the exacerbationist (trozos de “intención” - micro choques en colliders de jour). But not just for himself (!) Go-ahead here is by community (dímelo) - a solid push back on repressive hegemonies. The puckish poetic reminds one of Brecht’s Die Hauspostille (“Manual of Piety”). The we-could-pull-the-plug-on-all-this-culture-art-stuff-at-any-time – has been ghoulish kin to cultural-political artists since then. Thus, this book is also a “teaching" of our un-teachable busted capitalist moment. And marvelously, we feel freedom-potential in Hi-Density Politics. Noel rattles the “big other” symbolic order just long enough for the signs to slink out from under it, unbridled, furiously cute, in maximalist rhythms. —Rodrigo Toscano