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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
For Diane di Prima 1934-2020
Head-on war is the mistake we maketime after timeThere is a way around it, way to outflanktechnology, short circuit“energy crisis”: retreat & silencecunningcourage and love Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #58 Diane di Prima, famous beat poet, radical, anarchist, activist, … Continue reading
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
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
The anarchy of woodstock
The Commune was the biggest festival of the nineteenth century. Underlying the events of that spring of 1871 one can see the insurgents’ feeling that they had become the masters of their own history, not so much on the level … 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) …
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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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A letter for anarchy: Esther Ferrer to John Cage
Performance art is the most democratic. Everyone can do it. You don’t need a technique, you don’t have to have gone through a fine arts school, nor be a specialist in anything. You only have to have the desire to … Continue reading
For Agnès Varda: Fictions of reality/realities of fiction
Our job is to see, to make things seen or to inform, but we never see enough. I knew around a dozen caryatides and then I discovered fifty of them. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all … Continue reading
Song is a weapon: For José Mário Branco (1942-2019)
José Mário Branco was musician, song writer, composer, poet and militant. Though largely unknown outside portugal and lusophone countries, he was a central figure, among others (e.g. José Afonso), in what came to be known in his country as “musica … Continue reading →