ABSTRACT
Its first movement represents the misery of everyday life, its tedious tasks and humiliations, its degradations which reflect most strongly on the lives of the working classes and underclass. The ‘flying fucks’ that the women of slavery had to endure, are the extreme of the reality of the lot of women in the owned portion of humankind; a bondage intensified by child bearing and child-rearing and the basic preoccupation with the bare necessities. Daily life weighs heaviest upon the poorest sections – the daily tasks of many are burdened by the absence of money; urgent negotiations with the utilities companies; the threat of gas or electricity or water being cut off; the tone of dismissal from a petty bureaucrat at the other end of the phone; the realm of numbers which do not meaningfully
relate to experienced reality; an all-too-familiar knowledge of the intimate things beyond material reality (the connection with living death) – poor health, ‘irrational’ spontaneity, vitality; the constant recurrence of problems which appear petty to others; unending poverty; the endlessness of want; the non-choice of economy and abstinence, hardship, repressed desires, meanness and avarice; the beauty of the fantasy world; the endless mirage of popular music; music videos which cut scenes and transpose images to confuse all sense of (un)reality, leading one to escape into the other-than-real...
