TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
by Antonin Artaud
...Artaud resurfaced in 1947 with a radio play To Have Done With the Judgment of god.
Although the work remained true to his Theatre of Cruelty, utilizing an
array of unsettling sounds, cries, screams and grunts, it was shelved
by French Radio the day before it was scheduled to air, on February 2,
1948. Artaud died one month later.
...and they want at all costs and by every
possible means to make and manufacture soldiers
with a view to all
the planetary wars which might later take place,
and which would be
intended to demonstrate by the over-whelming virtues of
force
the superiority of American products,
and the fruits of American sweat in all fields of activity
and of the superiority of the
possible dynamism of force.
Because one must produce,
one must by
all possible means of activity replace nature
wherever it can be
replaced,
one must find a major field of action for human
inertia,
the worker must have something to keep him busy,
new fields
of activity must be created,
in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake
manufactured products,
of all the vile synthetic
substitutes
in which beatiful real nature has no part,
and must give way finally and shamefully before all the
victorious substitute
products
in which the sperm of all artificial insemination
factories
will make a miracle
in order to produce armies and
battleships.
No more fruit, no more trees, no more vegetables, no more
plants pharmaceutical or otherwise and consequently no more
food,
but synthetic products to satiety,
amid the fumes,
amid the special
humors of the atmosphere, on the particular axes of atmospheres wrenched
violently and synthetically from the resistances of a nature which has known
nothing of war except fear.
And war is wonderful,
isn't it?
For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been
preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step.
In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all
competition that could
not fail to arise on all sides,
one must have soldiers, armies,
airplanes, battleships...link
artaud in the catalog
artaud's radio recording