ABSTRACT
Tracing a particular thread through the SISV reports is very like attempting to follow a chosen line around that paradigm of topology, the Möbius band. There are no discrete entities, all subjects are contiguous, and by an arbitrary cut you lose more than you gain. Nevertheless, a useful direction can occasionally be picked out by isolating a chapter heading. In this case, the chapter Art and political geometry’ from The Order of Nature (1:71–4) is concerned, as already noted, with artificial symmetries of time and Sorel’s myth, but ends with a call for a new artistic renaissance based on a direct and modern consciousness of the image. The heading can also be used to describe how Jorn strings a series of ideas about political difference and perceptions of art on a number of attitudes to symmetries and time, and comes up with an evolutionary theory of art.
