Tag Archives: Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo Reaction Spectacle

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Enjolras Sanchez

The following comments are meant to situate the popular reactions to the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo within the overall defensive mechanisms our societies use to keep themselves together. To do this I will be approaching the issue in a … Continue reading →

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Laughing with Charlie Hebdo

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends. Bernard Holtrop The killings at Charlie Hebdo and elsewhere, over the course of the last week in france, have become spectacle, culminating in the multitudinous demonstrations throughout … Continue reading →

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The art of charlie hebdo

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire … we should call every truth fake which was not accompanied  by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche Notre ressort est de dénoncer la bêtise en faisant rire. Cabu … Continue reading →

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There is no god in any language

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Enjolras Sanchez

the sacred as violence against thought: god and the sacred inverted ideals of fear and helplessness are projected to the skies as a psychotic formation. religion is thought that fears itself. as weapons overcome the body, the sacred overcomes the … Continue reading →

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For Charlie Hebdo

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Profanation … neutralises what it profanes. Once profaned, that which was unavailable and separate loses its aura and is returned to use … [It] deactivates the apparatuses of power and returns to common use the spaces that power had seized. … Continue reading →

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