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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
James Baldwin: Sonny’s Blues
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in … Continue reading
James Baldwin: The Uses of the Blues
The title “The Uses of the Blues” does not refer to music; I don’t know anything about music. It does refer to the experience of life, or the state of being, out of which the blues come. Now, I am … Continue reading
For John Burnside (1955-2024)
For John Burnside, “anarchist” poet and writer, who died this last month of May. … a true anarchist … [does] … not need a glorious leader, or leaders, to save us from the nightmare. What we need, each of us, … Continue reading
Daniel Blanchard: Regarding what poetry does
For Daniel Blanchard, the second part of an essay that began with the “Crisis of words“. To men who discover the world by looking for a rhyme. Italo Svevo Thus, throughout this “crisis of words” – which I evoked in … Continue reading
Daniel Blanchard: Crisis of words
At the social level, when a gigantic corporate, media and political engineering imposes, demands and expropriates at the same time the word, have not the silent majorities been for years an ambivalent black hole that express in their own way … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Amador Fernández-Savater, Art and Revolution, Daniel Blanchard
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Poetry against the state
From Lundi Matin (#420, 18/03/2024), we share below an interview with Luis Andrés Bredlow and a memorial to him by Anselm Jappe (Lundi Matin #115, 30/09/2017) after Bredlow’s death. Our hope is that these may serve as a modest introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Interview
Tagged Agustín García Calvo, anarchism, Anselm Jappe, Art and Revolution, Luis Andrés Bredlow, Situationists
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The Politics of Women’s Blues
We share two texts on women’s blues as a radical questioning of sex, gender and race in the racist and hetero-patriarchal social relations of the United States. In the first, which provides the title to our post, Hazel V. Carby … Continue reading
For Edward Bond (1934-2024)
SAGA I asked the man at the crossroads why are you waitingHe said I have no shoes on my feetMy stomach is emptyMy dwelling is repossessedA man In a nice suit with heraldic cufflinks stole my walletAnd my coat is … Continue reading
The anarchy of dance/the dance of anarchism
A little wisdom is no doubt possible; but I have found this happy certainty in all things: that they prefer—to dance on the feet of chance. Friedrich Nietzsche, This Spoke Zarathustra [Contact improvisation] came out of Grand Union. We were in … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Poiesis
Tagged anarchism, Art and Revolution, dance, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Steve Paxton
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Jacques Rancière: Reading freedom through Anton Chekhov
Jacques Rancière, in his most recent essay, explores through Anton Chekhov’s fiction the unpredictable yet ever possible and disruptive appearance of freedom in the everyday lives of his characters; in our lives. We share below an excerpt from Rancière’s essay, … Continue reading →