2023]

there are the hunters & the hunted. the missing link. before the appearance of monsters. that apocalyptic orange stream of light. 45 degrees at 5 am despite this rain. brain images. the white spots that become part of the images. transformations in response. of the social imaginary. guerilla tactics. codes & alien signs. something that wants to be more than sound or sight. the countertendency of véga/lyotard & souyri [le marxisme qui n’a pas fini, esprit, janv. 1982, 6, p.11-31] or the super-macho stuff of general creativity. as fiction becomes reality. there are no distractions. exactement de la même manière. along the…

Heiner Müller | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fragment to Death & Memo 409

2023-04-132023-04-13 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Heiner Müller · Louis Althusser · Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

Pier Paolo Pasolini Fragment to Death I come from you and go to you, A feeling born with the light, with the heat which aroused the first cry as joy I, baptized and known as Pier Paolo, at the beginning of a restless epic: I walked into the light of history but was always heroic under your dominion: my being you my innermost thought. In your path of light, in the horrific uncertainties of your flame, the course of the world, of history: and in your light it truly existed, it lost life so as to win it back:…

dreaming of one thing [subversive chronicle]

2022-12-022023-09-03 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…

… the day when the Italien poet Pier Paolo Pasolini was found murdered …

2022-11-012022-11-01 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Katerina Gogou · Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

In one of her most fascinating poems, AUTOPSY REPORT 2.11.75, from the volume The Wooden Overcoat (1982), Katerina Gogou revisits the day when the Italian poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (he was certainly more than an ally to her) was found murdered on the beach at Ostia. In the blind spot of a surveillance camera — a poet no one fears is no poet — Gogou traces with anatomical precision the horrific injuries that led to his agonizing death. “His face disfigured by the framework of the class he denied / a black and blue volunteer of the ragtag proletariat. /…

riots and/or poetics [6/2022]

2022-06-20 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Aditya Bahl · Carla Lonzi · Jazra Khaleed · Juliana Spahr · Karl Marx · Marius Loris Rodionoff · Michel Foucault · Nanni Balestrini · Nathalie Quintane · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Stacy Szymaszek · Steve WrightLeave a comment

Nathalie Quintane | TOMATOES + Why doesn’t the far left read literature? (Kenning Editions) a poetic of montage + détournements. the piecing together of heterogeneous elements to arrive at new connections. to destabilise habits. to blur the boundaries of different genres. illuminating public discussions from remote, radical angles. the attention to new forms of coexistence. of social uprisings + a linguistic dissent. collective voices. the words + banners of political movements, the pamphlets. the minorities [who are constantly in the majority]. the restless revenants. an apparent continuity of uprisings. l’affair de tarnac, la ‘jungle’ de calais + notre-dame-des-landes. instead…

Georges Didi-Huberman | Hells? (On Pier Paolo Pasolini)

2022-05-11 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Dante Alighieri · Georges Didi-Huberman · Guy Debord · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

Well before he described the great light of Paradise shining out in all its eschatological glory, Dante decided to reserve a quiet but significant fate, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, for the “tiny light” of those glowing worms, the fireflies. The poet is observing the eighth bolgia of hell, a political bolgia if ever there was one, since we can recognize a few eminent citizens of Florence gathered there, among others, all under the same condemnation as evil counselors. The entire space is scattered—constellated, infested—with small flames that look like fireflies, just like those that people see…

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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“PORNO-THEO-COLOSSAL” [[AFTER PASOLINI]]

2021-11-022021-11-05 Categories: WorksTags: Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

Refusal has always been an essential gesture. Think only of the saints, the hermits, but also of the intellectuals. The few who have made history were the ones who said no, not the courtiers or the servants of the cardinals. [Pier Paolo Pasolini | “We are all in danger”] I. 5:11 in the afternoon: the feeling that the mind, the consciousness, is to explode like an explosive device I swear :: the simplest movements of the body can no longer be controlled & the gaze begins to turn around itself – consent is a trap. Time &…

Georges Didi-Huberman | Light against Light

2020-06-282020-06-28 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Antonio Gramsci · Bertolt Brecht · Federico Garcia Lorca · Friedrich Nietzsche · Georg Simmel · Georges Didi-Huberman · Hannah Arendt · Jacques Rancière · Karl Marx · Maurice Merleau-Ponty · Michel Foucault · Miguel Abensour · Nathalie Heinich · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Rosalind Krauss · Theodor W. Adorno · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

The disappearance of the fireflies—when the blinding glare of spotlights crushes the weak glimmer of glowworms in the night—is an excellent poetic allegory, a lovely “speaking image” on which to build something like a general poetics of light. This allegory has become familiar to us through the intervention of a great poet, Pier Paolo Pasolini.1 So we cannot be surprised that artists and thinkers have elevated this allegory in the field of aesthetics, and that it may lend itself as the title of an art exhibit. And yet its sole purpose is to ask, stubbornly, over and over…

Pier Paolo Pasolini | Poetry [from “Transhumanize and Organize”]

2020-04-292020-11-01 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

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, investing my money (a lot of it, since semen was my currency, and I always had an erection) buying up greatly undervalued sectors that would turn a profit some two or three centuries hence. I was Ptolemaic (being just a kid) and counted eternity, you guessed it, in centuries. I considered the…

[ACTION #2] PASOLINI L’ENRAGÉ

2020-03-292022-12-05 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

Dieser Film ist auf brennendes Papier geschrieben, wird Pasolini über LA RABBIA sagen / die Verknüpfung politischer Vernunft mittels poetischen Gefühls [das ein entschieden marxistisches ist]. Während sein Zorn sich gegen die täglich gelebte Normalität des Notstands [stato d’emergenza] richtet, die vermessene Ausgestaltung & Verteilung des Mangels [eines dystopischen Beschleunigungsapparates], inmitten neu aufgeputzter Mumifizierungen [Details in rosa Schaumbildung], entdeckt er die Synthese von Politik & Dichtung, also Marx & Rimbaud in der Montage einiger Bilder aus dem Afrika des »Sehers« [zeitweise ein gedanklicher Rückzugsort], der politischen Kartographie Patrice Lumumbas. Die Aufteilung des Menschen in Herr und Knecht [in der…

Alberto Toscano | Mayakovsky at Mirafiori: Operaismo and the Negation of Poetry

2020-02-182021-08-11 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Alberto Asor Rosa · Alberto Toscano · Antonio Gramsci · Communism · Franco Fortini · Jacques Rancière · Leo Trotsky · Mario Tronti · Nicholas Gorlov · Operaismo · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Potere Operaio · Revolution · Viktor Shklovsky · Vladimir Lenin · Vladimir MayakovskyLeave a comment

Though many of the watchwords and guiding axioms of Italian operaismo and its successors have percolated into critical discourse on aesthetic production, and multiple analyses of its intersections with visual art and architecture in the 1960 and 1970s have been advanced, little has been made of its specific approach to the question of poetics. This chapter aims partially to correct this tendency by exploring the arguments about the unhappy marriage between avant-garde poetry and communist politics sketched out in some interventions by the key literary critic and historian in the collective of militant intellectuals that made up ‘classic’ operaismo,…

PORNO-TEO-KOLOSSAL ((nach Pasolini))

2019-11-292021-01-24 Categories: WorksTags: Dante Alighieri · Friedrich Hölderlin · Katerina Gogou · Peter Weiss · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ulrike Meinhof · Vladimir Lenin · Vladimir MayakovskyLeave a comment

Die Verweigerung ist schon immer eine essenzielle Geste gewesen. Denk nur an die Heiligen, die Eremiten, aber auch an die Intellektuellen. Die Wenigen, die die Geschichte gemacht haben, das waren diejenigen, die Nein gesagt haben, nicht die Höflinge oder die Diener der Kardinäle. Pier Paolo Pasolini I. 5:11 am Nachmittag: das Gefühl, dass der Geist, das Bewußtsein wie ein Sprengsatz explodieren / ich schwöre :: die einfachsten Bewegungen des Körpers nicht mehr zu kontrollieren sind und der Blick beginnt sich um sich selbst zu drehen — Einverständnis ist eine Falle. Zeit und Raum ineinander…

Pasolini on de Sade: An Interview during the Filming of ‘Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom’

2019-11-132019-11-13 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Lautréamont · Maurice Blanchot · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Pierre Klossowski · Sade · TeoremaLeave a comment

by Gideon Bachmann It is reputed that Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, spent only 37 days, writing from seven to ten every evening, in composing his masterpiece, the unsurpassed 120 Days of Sodom, the first psychopathia sexualis ever written, and preserved only in fragmentary form. More than half of what has been left are just lists of perversions, lacking that deep sociological and political insight which characterizes most of the Marquis’s other work, and which assured him his ranking place in prerevolutionary French literature. Nobody has ever used a de Sade book as material for a film. It is therefore all…

Roland Barthes | Sade – Pasolini

2019-11-12 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Pier Paolo Pasolini · Roland Barthes · Sade · Salò · TeoremaLeave a comment

SALÒ does not please fascists. On another side, since Sade has become for some of us a kind of precious patrimony, many cry out: Sade has nothing to do with fascism! Finally, the remainder, neither fascist nor Sadean, have an immutable and convenient doctrine that finds Sade boring. Pasolini’s film therefore can win no one’s adherence. However, quite obviously, it hits us somewhere. Where? In SALÒ, what touches is the letter. Pasolini has shot his scenes to the letter, the way that they had been described (I do not say “written”) by Sade; hence these scenes have the sad, frozen and rigorous beauty…

Pier Paolo Pasolini | A Desperate Vitality

2019-11-012020-10-07 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Jean-Luc Godard · Marxism · Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

I (Draft, in a cursus in present-day jargon, of what has just transpired: Fiumicino, the old castle, and a first real idea of death.) As in a film by Godard: alone in a car speeding down the motorways of Latin neo-capitalism — returning from the airport — [where Moravia stayed behind, a pure soul with his bags] alone, “racing his Alfa Romeo“ in sunlight so heavenly it cannot be put into rhymes not elegiac — the finest sun we’ve had all year — as in a film by Godard: under a sun bleeding motionless unique, the canal of the…

DIE PROZESSE — Ein faktographisches Poem

2019-06-112020-09-30 Categories: WorksTags: Anna Mendelssohn · Arthur Rimbaud · César Vallejo · George Jackson · Gilets Jaunes · Julien Coupat · Leo Trotsky · Nanni Balestrini · Paul Verlaine · Pawlenski (Pavlensky) · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Roque Dalton · Rosa Luxemburg · Sergei TretyakovLeave a comment

ENGLISH TRANSLATION (part 1) BY DAVID VICHNAR & TIM KÖNIG ALIENIST 5 “Mehr als 1000 Menschen wurden bereits willkürlich verurteilt und inhaftiert. Und jetzt soll das neue so genannte “Anti-Randalierer- Gesetz” uns auch noch darin hindern zu demonstrieren. Wir verurteilen jede Gewalt gegen Demonstranten durch die Polizei. Nichts wird uns aufhalten! Demonstrieren ist ein Grundrecht. Schluss mit der Straflosigkeit für die Ordnungskräfte! Amnestie für alle Opfer der Unterdrückung!” Aufruf der ersten Generalversammlung der Gilets Jaunes “Ich werde ein Arbeiter sein: Diese Idee hält mich zurück, wenn die wahnsinnige Wut mich hin zur Schlacht von Paris drängt, — wo doch so…

riots and/or poetics [10/2018]

2018-10-032018-10-03 Categories: Reading ListTags: Anne Boyer · Archie Shepp · Black Panthers · Cecil Taylor · Grachan Moncur III · Karen Brodine · Lola Ridge · Louis Auguste Blanqui · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Walter Benjamin · Wendy TrevinoLeave a comment

“History is full of people who just didn’t. They said no thank you, turned away, escaped to the desert, lived in barrels, burned down their own houses, killed their rapists, pushed away dinner, meditated into the light. Even babies refuse, and the elderly also. Animals refuse: at the zoo they gaze through Plexiglas, fling feces at human faces. Classes refuse. The poor throw their lives onto barricades, and workers slow the line. Enslaved people have always refused, poisoning the feasts and aborting the embryos, and the diligent, flamboyant jaywalkers assert themselves against traffic as the first and foremost visible daily lesson…

Two Poets — Pier Paolo Pasolini & John Wieners

2018-09-072020-10-19 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Andrea Brady · Charles Olson · Communism · John Wieners · Katerina Gogou · Nat Raha · Pier Paolo Pasolini · RevolutionLeave a comment

“I harbor a visceral, deep, irreducible, hatred against the bourgeoisie, against its sufficiency, its vulgarity; a mythical hatred, or, if you prefer, religious.” Pier Paolo Pasolini
“Do not think of the future; there is none. / But the formula all great art is made of.“ J. Wieners

Kirill Medvedev | My Fascism

2018-06-032019-08-21 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Bertolt Brecht · Kirill Medvedev · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Revolution · Riots · Stephanie YoungLeave a comment

“[…] and someone said “I’m always on strike, I’m a poet“ in his 2004 essay MY FASCISM Kirill Medvedev says you can see how a person can become kind of crazy from all the various ideological streams moving through his mind in impossibly quick succession […] MY FASCISM is an essay about the relation of politics and art in 2004 in Russia, how some artists on the far right had made a powerfully vital, syncretic, and dangerous art. Kirill argues against attachment to an idealized past, the old culture: In Russia right now we’re all frankensteins, pieced together from various dead traditions….

Amelia Rosselli | Poetry and Poetics

2018-04-242020-10-02 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Amelia Rosselli · Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

Poetry and Poetics Uncollected Because I never did die, sepia and self with others was jocund smashed in equal pieces. I write obscure, blissful fog and without sun the sky, floured with wearinesses the monotonies of living by jolts acute and low. 11 March 1995 Note 1967-1968 1/1/67 Intent upon describing the landscape I intruded; gushed from it restless the primary scene: spinning tops, caverns, demystifying scenes. It’s a scene this one that keeps me from thinking while with a machine gun I elegantly mow you all down. What a corvée of madmen! What…

Katerina Gogou / AUTOPSY REPORT

2018-01-212020-12-09 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Communism · Katerina Gogou · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Revolution · RiotsLeave a comment

AUTOPSY REPORT 2.11.75 …the body lay face-down in a parallel connecting to the Vatican. One of his hands full of blood gestured in open palm as insult to CPI and the other clutching his genitals to the culture specialists. Blood clotting on his hair as leeches on the veiled homosexual syndromes of all men of earth throughout the realm. His face disfigured by the framework of the class he denied a black and blue volunteer of the ragtag proletariat. The fingers of the left hand broken by social realism thrown away to floodlit trash. The jaw broken by the…

Georges Didi-Huberman; To Render Sensible

2018-01-182019-03-01 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Alain Badiou · Georges Didi-Huberman · Jacques Rancière · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Sergei Eisenstein · Vladimir Mayakovsky · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

Representable People, Imaginary People? Representation of the people comes up against a double difficulty, if not a double aporia, that comes from the impossibility of our subsuming each of the two terms, “representation” and “people,” into the unity of one concept. Hannah Arendt said that we will never manage to think about the political dimension as long as we stubbornly persist in speaking of man, since politics is interested precisely in something else, which is men, whose multiplicity is modulated differently each time, whether it be in conflict or community. (1) Likewise we must say, and forcefully, that we…

Alain Badiou; On Pier Paolo Pasolini

2018-01-102020-11-02 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Alain Badiou · Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

DESTRUCTION, NEGATION, SUBTRACTION The abstract contents of my lecture is a very simple one. I can summarize it in five points: All creations, all novelties, are in some sense the affirmative part of a negation. “Negation”, because if something happens as new, it cannot be reduced to the objectivity of the situation where it happens. So, it is certainly like a negative exception to the regular laws of this objectivity. But “affirmation”, affirmative part of the negation, because if a creation is reducible to a negation of the common laws of objectivity, it completely depends on them concerning its identity….

Sean Bonney | Our Death

2017-12-032021-11-12 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Antonin Artaud · Arthur Rimbaud · Friedrich Hölderlin · Katerina Gogou · Miyó Vestrini · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Revolution · Riots · Sean Bonney2 Comments

Our Death / Abject 2 (after Baudelaire) Great love, that will crush the human world, I wish we could do something to help each other. But today we are separated by so many tedious enemies. They smile at us all day long and ask us about our fever. What is there to say? That “fever”, in the way they pronounce it, isn’t much more than a weird reflection of their smile, which in itself is a symbol of their sense of rightness within the so-called world. But that we feel that the five characters that make up the word…

Theater der Grausamkeiten [6.1 / 6.2]

2017-11-202018-07-12 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Antonin Artaud · Guy Debord · Pier Paolo Pasolini · RiotsLeave a comment

Ich hätte Blut durch den Nabel scheissen müssen, um zu erreichen, was ich will. Artaud All das um zu sagen dass Tzara Artauds Stab berührte als berührte er seinen Schwanz wodurch er im Übrigen nur einen weiterer Schrein geistiger Masturbation errichtet, einen Schatten den man mit ein paar Nägeln im Kopf des Suchenden fixiert, dass Artaud während der neun Jahre die das Gesetz ihn festsetzt / einer Justiz die nur als letzter eitriger Ausfluss einer bourgeoisen Krätze auftritt / ihn bindet, 50 Elektroschocks aussetzt und ins hyperglykämische Coma spritzt, dass die Gesellschaft…

READING LIST [08/2017]

2017-08-232018-07-12 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · Reading ListTags: Bertolt Brecht · Deleuze & Guattari · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Sean BonneyLeave a comment

Atlantic Drift; An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics Francois Dosse; Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Maurizio Lazzarato; Marcel Duchamp and The Refusal of Work Bertolt Brecht; Arbeitsjournal Étienne Balibar; The Philosophy Of Marx Pier Paolo Pasolini; The Selected Poetry Of Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini; Unter freiem Himmel Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov Sean Bonney; Letter Against the Firmament MÜTZE # 16 URS ENGELER (Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, et al.) Georg Baselitz, Alexander Kluge; Weltverändernder Zorn Ellen Meiksins Wood; Das Imperium des Kapitals

Die identitären Idioten

2017-02-122018-07-12 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Pier Paolo PasoliniLeave a comment

Neulich die identitären Idioten der nouvelles nouvelles droite: notre maitre à penser est Pasolini et à sa suite Gramsci. Rechter Gramscismus! (Wie lange hat Gramsci in faschistischen Kerkern gesessen?) Man bekommt eine Gänsehaut sieht man, wie sie sich scheibchenweise in Werken anderer bedienen. Alle, die nett gekleidet daherkommen und ihre Fahnen schwenken, deren Symbol ein Scheisshaufen ist (so Pasolini), anders ausgedrückt, alle die dich deinen Freund nennen und den Neigungswinkel ihres Daseins verkennen, alle die immer noch glauben, dass nur 1 bestimmtes Areal im Gehirn für bestimmte Funktionen verantwortlich ist, deren geistige Offenbarung sich in…

LA RABBIA //PASSION PASOLINI

2017-01-212019-11-09 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Pawlenski (Pavlensky) · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Pierre GuyotatLeave a comment

«Haltet ihn gut fest, auch wenn er in seiner glühenden Hast versucht sich loszumachen; er wird alle Formen annehmen, sich in alles verwandeln, was auf der Erde kriecht, in Wasser, in göttliches Feuer; aber ihr müsst ihn festhalten, ohne nachzulassen; packt ihn noch fester; und wenn er dann sprechen will, wird er wieder Züge annehmen, die ihr an ihm gesehen habt, als er eingeschlafen ist.» (Eidothea warnt Menelaos vor den Listen ihres Vaters Protheus, dem die Gabe der Prophetie nachgesagt wurde, sein Wissen jedoch mit niemanden zu teilen gedachte. Ein Meister der Verwandlung, entzog er sich den Fragen, indem er…

BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

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