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Tag Archives: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poetry
Job Request Poetry made to order is a device.The device maker can produce many(only tiring himself out from the manual labor).The subject can, at times, be ironic:the device always is.Gone are the days when I, a voracious economizer,would spend everything, … Continue reading
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini
On the anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s murder, we share (in English and Italian) one of his most cited and debated pieces of journalism, “Is this a Military Coup D’Etat? I Know…”, published in Italy’s “Corriere della Sera” on the … Continue reading
Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed by Louis Valentin (1970) A 1970 interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the youth revolt of the sixties, culture, love, his film “Oedipus Rex”, the heterosexual couple, homosexuality, and more. LV: You have often been accused … Continue reading
Pier Paolo Pasolini: “We are all in danger”
As we continue to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birthday, we share Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last interview, on the eve of his murder … The very few people who made history are those who said no, not … Continue reading
For Pier Paolo Pasolini
On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birthday … . . . Take a few steps and you’re on the Appiaor Tuscolana, where all is lifefor all. But to be this life’saccomplice, better to knowno style … Continue reading
Against the domestication of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the legitimisation of fascism
In an italy of rising and self-legitimising neo-fascism, of growing State and non-State violence against “minorities”, dissidents and foreigners, it is fundamental to return to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s reflections on the subject, as well as to resist appropriations of his … Continue reading
Illuminations from Pier Paolo Pasolini
The magazine Ballast regularly gathers together citations of authors under the generic designation of an abécédaire. We share below, in translation, their most recent “alphabet text”, from the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
With and beyond anti-fascism (1)
… to make use of the weapons created by fascism, which has been allowed to use the fundamental aspirations of people for affective exultation and fanaticism. But we affirm that the exaltation… must be placed in the service… of a … Continue reading
Paris, november 13th, isis and neo-fascism: Reading events with Pier-Paolo Pasolini
When I see that young people are in the process of losing their old common values and absorbing the new models imposed by capitalism, running the risk of dehumanising themselves and being prey to an abominable aphasia, to a brutal … Continue reading
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People are fools
Why is there such complicity with the old Fascism and why such an acceptance of the new Fascism? Because there is – and this is the point – a guiding principle common to both, sincerely or insincerely: that is the … Continue reading →