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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: worshiping dynamite
…While counting on the strategy of the Big Bang to disorganize bourgeois society, anarchist publications of the period also offered their readers practical hints for furthering the cause at the village or household level. “Burn down or blow up churches,” … 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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terrorism: getting to the verbal convention
…A comparison of two famous acts of terrorism underscores the difference, and at the same time illuminates its nature. The first case is that of Vera Zasulich, an idealistic young Russian socialist who, in January, 1878, shot and seriously wounded … Continue reading
cosmic atom anarchist of the aurora
What happens when you cross anarchism with nuclear physics? That could be a volatile combination to be sure, one wavering towards some nihilistic tendencies, yet stopping short of falling off the cliff. Artistically, it could be pretty interesting if the … Continue reading
100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Albert Camus, Beckett, canadian poetry, George Woodcock, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, jack mcclelland, Jean Genet, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mordechai Richler, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, T.S. Eliot
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smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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poetry and pond games
The cultural ghetto to escape from or to remain in? Smaller ghettos within the vast metropolis. Finding the vastness of the universal within the small and comparatively isolated. Northrop Frye was known for his theory of the Canadian what he … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, Ayn Rand, conn smythe, E.L. Doctorow, ed bickle, George Woodcock, kelly mcParland, ken danby, Leonard Cohen, Linda Hutcheon, Mordecai Richler, Northrop Frye, reinhold kramer, toronto maple leafs
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