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The poetic anarchy of Jesús Lizano
Quien duerme, quien duerme, quien duerme, despierte. Lope de Vega Soy anarquista poetico: mi mundo no es de este reino. Jesús Lizano Q. – Is the Real Poetic World distant? R. – The Real Poetic World is here, in what is natural, … Continue reading
For Eduardo Galeano
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words She is on the horizon. I walk … Continue reading
Poetry by Nawal Ziani
Nawal Ziani is a poet and writer who lives in Tangier. Her work sings of the violence of patriarchy and custom, of the beauty of the forgotten everyday and of the freedom of love. Below we share what we hope … Continue reading
A poet of the working class: Philip Levine
The poet Philip Levine once wrote of the American experience that it “is to return and discover one cannot even find the way, for the streets abruptly end, replaced by freeways, the houses have been removed for urban renewal that … Continue reading
The art of charlie hebdo
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
The songs of anarchy: spain
Anarchism in spain, from its beginnings in the later half of the 19th century until the revolution/civil war of 36-39, was to be found in an extraordinary wealth of expressions: among them song. We share in this post what came … Continue reading
With a little help from my friends
Je est un autre. Rimbaud Friendship, this relationship without dependency, without scenes, yet full of life’s simplicity, implies an acknowledgement of mutual strangeness that does not allow us to speak of our friends but only to them, not turn them into subjects of conversation … Continue reading
A cinema a hundred years young: Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin made his first appearance in cinema in 1914, in the film Making a Living. What followed would be the work of one of the most creative artists of the last century; a creativity not only to be understood in … Continue reading
Remembering septembers past: Victor Jara
On September 16th, Victor Jara was killed five days after the 1973 coup d’état that brought to an end the government of Salvador Allende. He was among the thousands that died at the hands of Augusto Pinochet’s violent authority. But … Continue reading
Rebellious graffiti, testimonial photography: Art against austerity in greece
Greece … is a laboratory in which the resistance of a population to authoritarian governance can be measured. Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt The task of art is not to change reality but to show and evoke it. The mimetic … Continue reading →