FOREWORD by W.J.T. Mitchell
INTRODUCTION – A HISTORY OF NULLITIES
CREATION FROM NOTHINGNESS
THE REJECTION OF THE WORLD
The history of the word „idiot”
Revaluation of values
The abolition of time
FOOLS
The ship of fools – Sebastian Brant
Praise of folly – Erasmus of Rotterdam
Opicinus de Canistris and Hugo van der Goes
JURODIVYJ
ON SOME FILMS OF ANDREJ TARKOVSKI
THE IDIOT IN THE ASYLUM
THE REDEEMER
THE IDIOT REVOLTING
Art of Forgetting
Illness as motive and projective stimulus
Art of the Mentally Ill
ACTIONISM, FLUXUS AND POP
Performance of regression
Criticism and Shamanism
Cynism
Indiffernce and subversion
PUNK
Precursors
Punk, Industrial and Geniale Dilletanten
THE PRESENCE OF THE IDIOT