dreaming of one thing [subversive chronicle]

2022-12-022022-12-13 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Anna Mendelssohn · Arthur Rimbaud · AUTONOMIA · Bertolt Brecht · Carla Lonzi · Colectivo Situaciones · Collectif Révoltes Logiques · Danielle Collobert · Donatella Di Cesare · Dziga Vertov · Dziga Vertov Group · Franz Kafka · Fred Moten · Gilles Deleuze · Groupe Medvedkine · Gruppo Gramsci · Jacques Rancière · Jean-Luc Godard · José Revueltas · Juan Gelman · Karen Brodine · Karl Marx · Kristin Ross · Lautréamont · LEF · Leslie Kaplan · Louis Althusser · Manuel Joseph · Marcello Tarì · Nanni Balestrini · Nathalie Quintane · Peter Watkins · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Pierre Guyotat · Political Committee of Workers from Porto Marghera · Primo Moroni · Rivolta Femminile · Rodolfo Walsh · Sergei Eisenstein · Sergei Tretyakov · Simone Weil · The Invisible Committee · Velimir Khlebnikov · Vladimir Mayakovsky1 Comment

i said endurance has its limits people are made of flesh and bone / i spoke about the stalinists and the method of executing the very best as traitors / who died screaming long live the party! / sifis said / the statement is only the beginning. then they will ask who are your friends. / then where do they live. katerina gogou i believe at heart that one must not be an accomplice to lies and compromise, the contemporary artist must scream out their revolt and make understood that we live in an unbearable, cruel, and…

Leslie Kaplan | From “Disorder”

2022-10-24 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Leslie KaplanLeave a comment

That spring saw a series of unusual crimes, quickly dubbed “19th century” crimes by the press. They were committed by exploited people of all sorts, clerks, wage earners, farm workers, various kinds of household help, all kinds of people stuck in poverty, and those killed were bosses (male and female), people who thought “you just have to…,” to do what? Do this or that, study, succeed, get a nice suit, make an effort, cross the street, etc. Clearly, France was divided in two, those who were for the criminals and those who were for the victims. But the fact…

der traum von einer sache [subversive chronik]

2022-01-262022-01-27 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Anna Mendelssohn · Arthur Rimbaud · Colectivo Situaciones · Collectif Révoltes Logiques · Danielle Collobert · Fred Moten · Groupe Medvedkine · Gruppo Gramsci · José Revueltas · Juan Gelman · Karen Brodine · Leslie Kaplan · Manuel Joseph · Nanni Balestrini · Nathalie Quintane · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Pierre Guyotat · Rodolfo Walsh · Vladimir MayakovskyLeave a comment

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Best Books of 2020

2020-12-01 Categories: Reading ListTags: Alexandra Kollontai · Bernadette Mayer · Best Books 2020 · Cait O'Kane · Carla Lonzi · Chris Nealon · David Graeber · Don Mee Choi · Fredric Jameson · Galina Rymbu · Leslie Kaplan · Mario Tronti · Mark Nowak · Miyó Vestrini · Peter Weiss1 Comment

Galina Rymbu | Life in Space (Translated by Joan Brooks) To be political, poetry does not have to turn into advertising, advocate for parties or platforms. Poetry becomes political when it represents the world as having a nature that is not “natural,” but rather negotiated, an Indra’s net that is political, social, and economic; made up of contingencies, and having to do with power—mainly of people over people—which is buttressed by ideology first and coercion second. A poetry that represents the world as political is political. It is also secular. A poetry that represents the world as immutable is…

Best Books of 2018

2018-11-292018-12-17 Categories: Reading ListTags: Anne Boyer · Arthur Rimbaud · Fred Moten · Jackie Wang · Leslie Kaplan · Lola Ridge · Louis Auguste Blanqui · Mark Fisher · Nat Raha · Nathalie Quintane · Pavel Arseniev · Rae Armantrout · Situationist International · Wendy Trevino3 Comments

Anne Boyer | A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse) Leslie Kaplan | Excess — The Factory (Commune Editions) Mark Fisher | K-Punk (Repeater) Bertolt Brecht | The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (W.W. Norton) Wendy Trevino | Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions) Lola Ridge | To the Many (Little Island Press) Auguste Blanqui | The Blanqui Reader | Political Writings (Verso) Jackie Wang | Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e)) Roberto Ohrt, Wolfgang Scheppe | The Most Dangerous Game (Merve Verlag) Arthur Rimbaud | Korrespondenz, Briefe, Texte und Dokumente (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) Nathalie Quintane | Un oeil en moins (P.O.L.) Fred…

riots and/or poetics [6/2018]

2018-05-302018-07-12 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · Reading ListTags: Anne Boyer · Arthur Rimbaud · artiCHOKE · Bertolt Brecht · Communism · Francis Ponge · Galina Rymbu · Jackie Wang · Katerina Gogou · Laszlo Moholy-Nagy · Leslie Kaplan · Lisa Jeschke · Nat Raha · Nathalie Quintane · Revolution · Riots · Roque Dalton · Sean Bonney · Stephanie Young · Tripwire1 Comment

“[…] But here: distillation, composition, narrow-mindedness; and the oppressive summers: the heat isn’t without respite, but given that good weather is in everyone’s interests, and that everyone is a pig, I hate how summer kills me when it appears even briefly. […] The worst is that all of this will bother you as much as it will. It seems for the best that you read and walk as much as possible. Reason enough not to remain confined to offices and homes. Mindlessnesses must be given free reign, far from confinement. I am not about to be selling balm, but I imagine…

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