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Category Archives: Poiesis
Happy birthday, Dario
“At the root of everything I write, … is tragedy. One must never forget that Accidental Death involves a man who has been thrown out of a window, and that Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! hinges on a man who is … Continue reading
Wishes for the new year
So, certainly, things have changed. And there is a lot to do. The next century is right on us. Policemen need to give up their guns. Society needs to dismantle all our prisons. If we need to detain people, a … Continue reading
Lucy E. Parsons: A Christmas Story
“Forgive me if I am not justified in what I ask,” said Scrooge, looking intently at the Spirit’s robe, “but I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw?” … Continue reading
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poetry
Job Request Poetry made to order is a device.The device maker can produce many(only tiring himself out from the manual labor).The subject can, at times, be ironic:the device always is.Gone are the days when I, a voracious economizer,would spend everything, … Continue reading
Omnia Sint Communia
Dervish at the Door A dervish knocked at a houseto ask for a piece of dry bread,or moist, it didn’t matter. “This is not a bakery,” said the owner. “Might you have a bit of gristle then?” “Does this look like a butchershop?” … Continue reading
Fragments for Palestine
From Lundi matin #478, 02/06/2025 The Oncléo Atelier presents a sound mash-up with Mahmoud Darwich’s “The Last Speech of the Red Man” (translated by Elias Sanbar), featuring W. Benjamin, D. Kopenawa, J. Genet, J-L. Godard, G. Deleuze, and a few … Continue reading
For Marcel Ophuls (1927-1925)
He [Eichmann] was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness – something by no means identical with stupidity – that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is “banal” and even funny, if … Continue reading
For Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)
What I most want my pictures to do is to lead to reflection and then action. The revolution only comes through evolution. Sebastião Salgado (British Journal of Photography, 24/05/2025) “I photographed the world”, Sebastião Salgado once said. And we could … Continue reading
The time of the assassins of the assassins
From Lundi matin #475, 13/05/2025. Walter Benjamin said somewhere that salvation will come from children. But what if children are starved, murdered? Then every hungry, murdered child will come back to haunt this world and shatter it. All disordered, they … Continue reading
For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning
There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading →