The Arcades Project - Operi

""Under the term "opera' I comprehend all choreographic exercises, including
those of the rifle and the censer." Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel et societaire
(Paris, 1829), p. 260. [W14a,4]
"The phalanstery is organized like a land of milk and honey. Even amusements
(hunting, fishing, making mnsic, growing flowers, performing in theatricals) are
remunerated. [W14a,5]
Fourier does not know the concept of exploitation. [W14a,6]
In reading Fourier, one is reminded of the sentence by Karl Kraus: "I preach wine
and drink water;' [W14a,7]
Bread plays only a small role in the diet of the Harmoniens. [W14a,8]
""The initiation of barbarians in the use of tactics is one of the signs of the degeneration
. . . of civilization." E. Silberling, Dictionnaire de sociologie phalansterienne
(Paris, 1911), p. 424 (s.v. "tactics"). [W14a,9]
"The savage enjoys seven natural rights . . . : hunting, fishing, harvesting, pasture,
external theft (that is, pillaging of what helongs to other tribes), the federal
league (the intrigues and cabals internal to the tribe), and insouciance." Armand
and MauLlanc, Fourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 2, p. 78. [W14a,lO]
The poor man speaks: ""I ask to be advanced the necessary tools . .. and enough to
live on, in exchange for the right to steal which simple nature has given me." Cited
in Armand and M.aublanc, Fourier (Paris, 1937), vol. 2, p. 82. ["VI5)]
In the phalanstery, a caravansary is outfitted for the reception of foreigners. A
structure characteristic of the phalanstery is the "tower of order;' This building
houses the optical telegraph, the control center for the signal lights, and the
carner pIgeons. [W15,2]
The circulation of works useful to all the phalansteries amounts 1:0 800,000 copies.
Fourier thinks, above all, of publishing an Encyclopaedie naturologique caluminee.
[W15,3]
Fourier loves to clothe the most reasonable sentilnents in fanciful considerations.
His discourse resembles a higher flower language."; [W15,4]
Fourier would like to see the people who serve no useful purpose in civilization­
those who merely gad about in search of news to communicate-circulating
among the tables of the Harrnonians, so as to keep people tilere from losing tinle
in reading newspapers: a divination of radio, born from the study of human
character. [W15,5]