Carnivalesque from Wikipedia What is not dada/flarf/langpo/avant-po or slow-po about this?

Carnivalesque is a term coined by the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, which refers to a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos.

Bakhtin traces the origins of the carnivalesque to the concept of carnival, itself related to the Feast of Fools, a medieval festival originally of the sub-deacons of the cathedral, held about the time of the Feast of the Circumcision (1 January), in which the humbler cathedral officials burlesqued the sacred ceremonies, releasing "the natural lout beneath the cassock."[1]

In the carnival, as we have seen, social hierarchies of everyday life—their solemnities and pieties and etiquettes, as well as all ready-made truths—are profaned and overturned by normally suppressed voices and energies. Thus, fools become wise, kings become beggars; opposites are mingled (fact and fantasy, heaven and hell).

Through the carnival and carnivalesque literature the world is turned-upside-down (W.U.D.), ideas and truths are endlessly tested and contested, and all demand equal dialogic status.

For Bakhtin, carnivalization has a long and rich historical foundation in the genre of the ancient Menippean satire. In Menippean satire, the three planes of Heaven (Olympus), the Underworld, and Earth are all treated to the logic and activity of Carnival. For example, in the underworld earthly inequalites are dissolved; emperors lose their crowns and meet on equal terms with beggars. This intentional ambiguity allows for the seeds of the "polyphonic" novel, in which narratologic and character voices are set free to speak subversively or shockingly, but without the writer of the text stepping between character and reader.

From Mikhail Bakhtin

1. I both actively and passively participate in Being.
2. My uniqueness is given but it simultaneously exists only to the degree to which I actualize this uniqueness (in other words, it is in the performed act and deed that has yet to be achieved).
3. Because I am actual and irreplaceable I must actualize my uniqueness.

I wonder if I could compare this to the movement of soul referenced in the post below.

A soul is formed from acts and deeds. The entire soul may or may not be present at the physical end of death. I hate the idea of gnostic spark and it is so easy to go there. Perhaps between aesthetics and ethics, rhetoric and philology I can bargain hunt the sublime.

later

Horoscope

Become Like Nets... My 2009 Horoscope

We each must be and come to be like fallow nets

and blow and go amidst the darkling below.

Habit formed, we lead a roped luck down to a tuition

and each bounden tone repeals its fidelity of mind.

Nor are we what we can see by looking inside the clink
of us two-folded fisherfolk; nor entertain a sentinal idea

of shoreboats. Have you read the signs revealed at holiday

as a certain chiari-stemed consciousness about how to wrestle.

What you foresee, and what some finger will connect

will shore you and your little thread into revealation--

though you're alliance-bound and relation-shipped.

Grappling skeins comes partly taken aback as apparition.

Nor is what we look for an elucidation of edge bonded abyss,

that can-- and will through your habits-- bind and inspire.

You ever notice that this little stuff exactly is your nostrum?

You are behemoth, and we envision binding a clutch of holy days.