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Category Archives: Poiesis
For Terry Jones (and Monty Python)
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughing. Up, let us kill the spirit of gravity! This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, … Continue reading
Politics in times of catastrophe (4)
Canicule/Heat Wave (VIDEO) for steve From lundi matin #218 (25/11/2019)
For Robert Frank (1924-2019)
To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche *** … photographs become standard evidence for historical occurrences, and acquire a hidden political significance. Walter Benjamin *** Photography is the process of rendering observation self-conscious. … Continue reading
For Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don’t love your eyes; they’d just … Continue reading
Why I am an anarchist: Benjamin Zephaniah
A testimonial by poet and writer Benjamin Zephaniah (from dogsection.org) …
Posted in Commentary, Poiesis
Tagged Art and Revolution, Benjamin Zephaniah, england
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For Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019)
Epic Prologue here I am once more sitting in front of the poetry audiencethat is sitting benevolently in front of melooks at me and is waiting for poetryas always I have nothing to tell itas always the poetry audience knows … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, autonomism, italy, Nanni Balestrini
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Profaning the spectacle: Advertising subversives and vandals
If it is said today that power is everywhere, it is not to empty the concept of all meaning, but to point to the fact that capitalism shapes and permeates all social relations, that the latter are increasingly commodified and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandalism, Situationists, Subvertisers International
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Anarchic movement: Ambulations in thought after Steve Paxton
When we linger in the borderland on purpose, we become our own experiment. Steve Paxton, Drafting Interior Techniques How do you know you aren’t improvising? Steve Paxton, Gravity A reflection inspired by a performance of Steve Paxton’s Flat and Satisfyin … Continue reading
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Tagged anachism, Art and Revolution, dance, Steve Paxton
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Ursula K. Le Guin: A story of the underside of revolution
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. She had never feared or despised the city. It was her country. There would not be slums like this, if the Revolution prevailed. But there would be misery. … Continue reading →