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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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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

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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

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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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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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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

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8 hours 8 HourS 8 HOuRs

Property. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. The wild days of May. Is today’s May Day violence a simple mimicry of revolution, colorful pageants of class warfare, or are they forces lurking that question … Continue reading

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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

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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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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading

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