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Category Archives: Poiesis
Desiring bodies, loving bodies: The art-activism of Zanele Muholi
I continue to bleed each time I read about rampant curative rapes in my ‘democratic’ South Africa. I bleed every time queer bodies are violated and refused citizenship due to gender expression and sexual orientation within the African continent. I … Continue reading
For Lou Reed
“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” “When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put … Continue reading
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Poetry for gezi-taksim
From Everywhere Taksim …
The poetry of a revolution: In memory of chile
Forty years ago (11/09/1973), chile’s revolution was brought to a violent close by the intervention of the country’s military, with the support and connivance of local and international capitalist interests. Thousands would die, and many more would be imprisoned, tortured … Continue reading
A (not) last goodbye to Mick Farren
What I’m saying is that I don’t want a grey world. Or rather, because this is the way it’s going, a grey world that’s painted day-Glo wild colours. Fuck that, it’s just disguising the real situation. I’m wanting a world … Continue reading
The passing of Le Métèque: Georges Moustaki
Songs that celebrate those without roots, but who walk the paths offered to them, led by their passion for beauty. To Georges Moustakis …
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In the eyes of Olmo Calvo: spain’s crisis
The photographic and video work of Olmo Calvo continues to give expression to the violence of a governance by crisis, but also of the resistance to it. Calvo's work is that of ignored realities, as well as that of … Continue reading
Work will set you free: The art of Santiago Grasso
(Illustration by Santiago Grasso) A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. …This delusion is the love of work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual … Continue reading
Metamorphoses of Occupy
History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the … Continue reading
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading →