From ‘The Failed Collective’ in ‘Where Art Belongs’ p 169
“There is no such thing as a failed utopian community; or, if the collective is an experiment in shared time, how can time fail? A great sense of failure couches every success. YES and SO WHAT? Is That All There Is To It? What goal do you imply with the phrase, “failed collective?” Utopia- static and therefore unreal- is never the point. Collectivity arranges itself around a desire for something, to produce something, to become something else (and who cares what else?) beyond its individual members.”