The history of all hitherto existing restaurants is the history of calculated naivety. A specter is haunting Cookland—the specter of Postmaterialism! Protestantism and need have been the ethical condition of capitalism and desire. In our epoch, capitalism becomes the generator of a new distanciated purism as a mediated culture of excess; the ultimate conspiracy of sensualism as the relativist matrix of material bodies raised back to the status of the imperishable. The unavoidable stake would be the following: 8 ought not to be dead to re-enter paradise lost†.
† Paradise lost: not because questions were raised, neither because lovers took consciousness of pleasure, but because 8 bodies started cooking games; the latter being the primal generator of knowledge. Their primary existence lies in the garden of nature as the book of the ubiquitous truth. Aporia leads 8 to the model of nature as knowledge; thus 8 open the register of desire driven and motivated by the economy of loss and non-satisfaction. In the post-materialist condition, here lies the sense of contemporary art; to postpone the tragic feeling of the loss of motivation, since, when anything goes, nothing happens anymore.
