NYC and the Anti-Consecutivist Movement

New York presents a true Anti-Consecutivist with a challenge: how to reconcile the allure of a Consecutivist showcase with unflinching dedication to Anti-Consecutivist politics. For if one is to imagine a part of the city (Grammercy, say, or even Tribeca) in which Anti-Consecutivism has taken hold, one should see through the remnants of Consecutivist universe, and move beyond the coordinates of Consecutivist imagination. Once liberated from those constraints, as if overcoming the Matrix (a clever Consecutivist ploy, by the way, to coopt the subversive--about that in some other post), an Anti-Consecutivist will be faced with the functional poverty of Anti-Consecutivist structures. It is this functional poverty that provides Anti-Consecutivism with its conceptual wealth. For it is only once one has lost the ability to rely on the wealth of structural opportunities that one can imagine the wealth of multidimensional interpretations. This radical Anti-Consecutivist hermeneutics, however, is at risk in New York, as its (the city's? the hermeneutics'?) ambiguities are channeled through its all-embracing tentacles towards resuscitating the obvious: namely, the admission that, after all, the humanities have failed, and that we look back at the ruins of progress in order to imagine another reason.