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Concluding Remark: The Art of Organization.

We can perhaps best prepare the ground for Deleuze's and Negri's

discussions of negation with an artistic example. Guernica, a small

town in northeastern Spain, was the most ancient site of veneration in

the Basque world, the center of Basque cultural traditions. From a

European perspective, one might think that the Enlightenment had been

slow to reach rural Spain, but the Basque community, in its cultural

isolation, was perhaps the final trace on the continent of the ancient

world. The town was bombarded in 1937 by eighteen German planes in an

action to test the destructive force of the new Nazi war machine. The

result was devestation on a scale never before witnessed. The scene

seems to be set for a dialectic of enlightenment: the spiritual center

of the ancient world is negated by the most advanced modern

technology.