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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading
The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading
Critique of Separation (1961): “One of the greatest antifilms of all time!”
Until the environment is collectively dominated, there will be no real individuals — only specters haunting the objects anarchically presented to them by others. In chance situations we meet separated people moving randomly. Their divergent emotions neutralize each other and … Continue reading
On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading
Howls for Sade (1952)
The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord
For Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knowsthat i know that touching was and still is and will alwaysbe the truerevolution Nikki Giovanni, When I Die (1972) … a poem is pure energyhorizontally containedbetween the mindof … Continue reading
George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Literacy, memory and the past (III)
The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. … Continue reading
C.P. Cavafy/Laurie Anderson: Waiting for the Barbarians
The force of Constantine Cavafy’s poetry continues to resonate in our times.
Guy Debord’s film eye
Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →