Juan Luis Moraza

Juan Luis Moraza - ARULES (Social Model 1)

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ARULES series. Rulers, squares, calipers, templates, measurement and pattern models taken from different contexts (architecture, textile pattern making, school world, nautical, etc.), are twisted creating unique folds, producing the paradoxical situation of a universal anormativity: a person, a ruler ...figure of a perversion of the symbolic. According to a kind of hyperbolic geometry, it is suggested the idea that the torsion of the measure defines a twisted space. ? Since each of the hundreds of post-rules is twisted in a singular way, the paradox of anormativity is enunciated: at the limit of the versatility and ductility of the Law, the diversification and normative flexibility tends to a limit situation in which each subject and each occasion demands a different norm. In this way the symbolic principle of the Law is removed. And it is replaced by the norm that no longer needs to be affected by a principle of legitimacy, but is performative for compliance, for unquestioned application. The norm does not imply a binding principle of regulation (symbolic), but an adaptation to the fact (metonymy as a displacement from the real to the imaginary). The vindication of the singular, converted into a normative principle, tends to the implantation of an anormative system, in which the principle of universal suffrage, one person one vote, is transformed into a principle of universal narcissism: "one person, one norm". Is the extreme rigidity of flexibility ?