The Vortex
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The Vortex |
| The goal of, according to Vorticists, human "life must be to manage our instinctive attachments" (Kush 67). People can try as much as they want to develop autonomy, but there certainly is safety in the security of the collective. What fuels the art of Vorticism is that humankind "refuses to be committed one way or another" (Weistein 31). Because human beings are pulled between autonomy and absorption into the machine, the Vorticist is at "his maximum point of energy when stillest" (Lewis "The New Ego" 148). The effects the two extremes has on a Vorticist can be seen as a "violence of the whirlpool about a center of stillness" (Allen 66). The violence of the whirlpool is created by the opposing temptations created within the self. If a person is completely absorbed in the machine, or if they are strong willed, then no dramatic action exists. The greatest point of energy is in the center of the vortex, where one is stuck at their most unsure point between the violent extremes of autonomy and absorption. The area in the center of the vortex is an area of maximum potential energy, a state of being both "static and dynamic" (Cassidy 29). |
The Vortex |