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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
The gilets jaunes: Fragments of interpretation
The yellow vests: February 9th, Act XIII … We continue to share fragments of reflections, of a movement, or movements, in motion. The yellow vests insurrection(s) is a picture of our future today: the only ethical response possible to permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Claude Lévi-Strauss, france, gilets jaunes, insurrection, myth, revolution
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For Tomi Ungerer: A smiling anarchist
I think I would have been the perfect anarchist. We have too much discipline. You know my triangle of life? It’s very important. It took me years to do it. It’s a triangle with variable angles and one is for … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: The war of images
Everything must be done to preserve the sense of this movement, the originality of the action that is outlined within it, the new freedom that it has already conquered for everyone. No organisation can today pretend to represent alone the … Continue reading
Miguel Amorós: Culture as the spectacular domestication of desire
In the current historical phase, and insofar as a project opposed to the dominant system is conceivable, the recovery of culture as a Ciceronian cultura animi does not imply patient dedication to learning, or a craftsman-like cultivation of skill, or a militant … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Bertolo, anti-capitalism, Art and Revolution, capitalism, Eduardo Colombo, Jaime Semprun, Miguel Amorós
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In praise of folly: Frente de Artistas del Borda
In the serene world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman: on one hand, the man of reason delegates the physician to madness, thereby authorizing a relation only through the abstract universality of disease; on the … Continue reading
The anarchy of beauty: Annie Le Brun
There is no very evident use in beauty; the necessity of it for cultural purposes is not apparent, and yet civilization could not do without it. The science of aesthetics investigates the conditions in which things are regarded as beautiful; it … Continue reading
For Ursula K. Le Guin
A Few Words to a Young Writer: Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking … Continue reading
For Katarina Gogou
… we convalescents still need art, it is another kind of art – a mocking, light, fleeting, divinely untroubled, divinely artificial art that, like a bright flame, blazes into an unclouded sky! Above all: an art for artists, only for artists! Friedrich … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Art and Revolution, greece, Katarina Gogou
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The russian revolution of 1917: Bruno Jasienski
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — “true conformity” is possible only in the cemetery. Joseph Stalin, “Our purposes” Pravda #1, (22 January 1912) For many of those who threw themselves into the russian revolution, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Art and Revolution, bruno jasienski, futurism, russian revolution
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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 →