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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
Mario Tronti: “In art as in politics there is nothing other than struggle”
For Mario Tronti (from Blackout) … Can you really be outside? This is the question I asked Mario the last time we talked (Francesco Matarrese | Greenberg and Tronti: Being Really Outside?). Today, the eighth of January, his important, extraordinary answer arrived. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Art and Revolution, autonomism, Mario Tronti, marxism
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For Wayne Shorter (1933-2023)
The potential cannot be given or rehearsed, it has to be found. And the thing is, to find the potential of anything, all these musicians have to be courageous and humble enough to not want to flaunt their musical credentials. … Continue reading
Italy: Autonomia (5) – “Bifo” and Radio Alice
Radio Alice was an Italian Pirate radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s. It started transmitting on 9 February 1976 using an ex-military transmitter on a frequency of 100.6 MHz. The station was closed by the carabinieri on 12 March … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, autonomism, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, italy, revolution
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Punk—Dangerous Utopia
From the CrimethInc. collective (13/12/2022). Punk—Dangerous Utopia Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the … Continue reading
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A way of seeing, a way of living
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Art and Revolution, Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Jean-Luc Godard by Jean-Luc Godard
For Jean-Luc Godard … Nous n’avons jamais prétendu que l’art puisse changer la nature et la qualité des choses, faire du crime une vertu, rendre moralement bon ce qui est moralement mauvais. Nous disons que l’art, en tant qu’art, est … Continue reading
For Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022)
It is rare that we would celebrate the work of a film actor, not however because we disparage their art, but for the intimacy between the cinematographic art and entertainment which renders this artist’s art suspect. This is perhaps unfair. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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For Paula Rego (1935-2022)
It seems to me that what you are often drawn to are the half-hidden stories – the stories that we can, as we look at your work, continue to unriddle in our heads. Is it possible to paint a secret? … Continue reading
René Char: Poetry in/as resistance
… si nul n’est bon volontairement, nul n’est esclave du Bien. Emmanuel Levinas, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence In old days men were absorbed in wars, filling all their existence with marches, raids, victories, but now all that is … Continue reading
Chile: “no hay revolución sin canciones”
As a person, I pay for what I say. … Refusal has always been a very important act carried out by saints and hermits but also by intellectuals. The very few people who made history are those who said no, … Continue reading →