8 TRANSI The possibility of change implies a phase of transit between a known situation and one presented as a renewal. The historic avant-gardes were largely based on advancing without looking back; in other words, they established patterns of transformation in their present and then reviewed the situation when the change had been effected, to make sure that there was a palpable advance. In those cases the transit was the actual process of adaptation to a new reality. Processes need space and time for verification of their achievement, and breaking away from what was there before is an action not devoid of paradox. On the one hand, it possesses the exultant beauty of novelty, for “all things new are fair”; on the other hand, it must put an end to all that seems old or ineffective in the previous phase, and show that it has done so. In its clear functionality there is a defiant, playful attitude in which rules are altered and the game begins. The present situation admits almost any analysis constructed on the basis of a perspective of disillusion and collapse. On every level – social, cultural, economic, ethical – the decisions that brought about our present prospect have come from inadequate management of resources and an almost complete distortion of the concepts that gave rise to them, deliberately defined wrongly or only partially, with the effect of plunging us into the most readily
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