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feneon: tweet tweet, he’s got you beat
If Felix Feneon were alive today, he would be the king of the tweet, the master of the micro-blog. Feneon was a Belle Epoque anarchist and dandy with great artistic sensitivity. After avoiding prison through his silver tongued refutation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Plateel, Felix Feneon, George Orwell, George Seurat, James Joyce, Paul Signac
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terrorism: no innocent victims
…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading
terrorism: violence for its own sake
…Degeneration, moreover, does not always take the same forms. The Combat Organization set up within the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth-century carried out terrorist operations on an unprecedented scale. Its victims included, besides the … Continue reading
terrorism: letting the psychopaths take over
…The arrogant, callous, almost senseless crime in the Cafe Terminus by Emile Henry in 1894, followed some years later by the emergence of the Bonnot gang- motorized bandits who professed anarchist convictions but likewise robbed and murdered for their personal … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Terror France, Emile Henry anarchist, Felix Feneon, French Anarchism history, George Woodcock, Johann Most anarchist, Jules Bonnot gang France, Kropotkin anarchist, Luigi Galleani anarchist, Mikhail Bakunin, Noam Chomsky, Palmer Raids 1919
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get happy: fizzy irrational exuberance
Were basically selfish individuals with varying and unpredictable levels of empathy? Ulterior purposes. The French “fine mouche.” The yoke of feudalism was tossed aside a half a millennium ago, and there’s no stopping those middle-class values that the politicians keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, Charles Baudelaire, coca coal gnh index, coca cola happiness institute, david graeber guardian, Felix Feneon, Florine Stettheimer, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Niall Ferguson, Quentin Massys, Thorstein Veblen, tyler cowen, Walter Benjamin
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fire fire! your moneys on fire
Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alex schaefer artist, aubrey hodes, doug aitken, ed ruscha, Emile Durkheim, Felix Feneon, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Luc Sante, Marcel Mauss, Martin Buber, michael landy breakdown, Nelson Mandela, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Signac, rivonia trial south africa, sam dwyer, steve reich wtc 9/11, stuart home, Tyler Green, Walter Benjamin
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GUYS and PUPPETS and DOLLS
Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son was the winning entry in the 1965 Eurovision song contest sung by France Gall. The song was filled with Gainsbourg’s trademark double entendres and clever word-play and arrangements. Ironically, Gainsbourg is somewhat hitting the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Feneon, France Gall, Jane Birkin, Joann Sfar, Kat Gardiner, Pablo Picasso, Pink Martini, Pupulus Mordicus, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg Melody Nelson
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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE
After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, El Greco, Felix Feneon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Ingres, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Stein, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kirby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Tony Grillo
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