"At dawn, the cathedral, still smoking, was more beautiful than ever. The open nave, full of ashes, was an iconoclastic monument to the cultural history of the West. A work of art is not a work of art if it cannot be destroyed, and therefore be fantasized and imagined—if it can’t exist in the immaterial museum of longing and desire, if its loss doesn’t justify intense grief. Why couldn’t those who clamor for reconstruction wait not even one second to mourn?

"A work of art is not a work of art if it cannot be destroyed, and therefore be fantasized and imagined—if it can’t exist in the immaterial museum of longing and desire, if its loss doesn’t justify intense grief."

Let us not rebuild Notre Dame. Let us honor the burnt forest and the blackened stones. Let us make of its ruins a punk monument, the last of a world that ends and the first of another world that begins.

Notre Dame of the Rich, pray for us. Notre Dame of Rape, pray for us. Notre Dame of the Anthropocene, pray for us. Notre Dame of Capitalism, pray for us. Notre Dame of Patriarchy, pray for us. Notre Dame of Tourism, pray for us. Notre Dame of Tax Fraud, pray for us. Notre Dame of Political Corruption, pray for us. Notre Dame of Ecological Extinction, pray for us . . .

"The fire behind his head was so intense that his hairs could have been carbonized. Before it was extinguished, the president had already made an international appeal for aid and offered a tax exemption to the wealthy who donated. The rebuilding of Notre Dame was the best of the political measures announced by the young king, his first truly convergent and patriotic achievement. It wasn’t long before the euros flowed in, as slaves of Christ and partisan soldiers to remake the body of the mother..."

"They had not yet extinguished the last of the fire when the state’s coffers counted nearly 850 million euros"

The blessed tweeted with one hand and prayed the rosary with the other

'official figures revealed that 300 buildings are still wrapped in this deadly cladding. New analysis from Labour finds that 56,000 people are living in these death traps. This weekend should have marked the end of a three-year nightmare for residents across the country. Instead, they will go to sleep tonight in unsafe buildings due to government inaction.'

Destroyers of the planet and annihilators of life, we prefer to build on our own ecological ruins. That’s why we’re afraid to look at Notre Dame ravaged. Against this Front of Builders it is necessary to create a Front to Defend the Notre Dame of Ruins.