Amiri Baraka | STOP KILLER COPS

2020-06-032020-06-03 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Amiri Baraka · etc. · Marxism · Resistance · Revolution · SabotageLeave a comment

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) During the Newark Riots, July 14-1967 [by Fred W. McDarrah] Shortly after the 1965 publication of his novel The System of Dante’s Hell, Amiri Baraka – then still named LeRoi Jones – wondered in an interview whether the energies he had put into writing it might not have been better used to ‘devise a method for blowing up the White House’. Sean Bonney STOP KILLER COPS Gun flash beats the child’s head in, maniac teeth dance in a bloody grin blue lies, badge confessions, yng dude dead just beyond his mama’s arms, In…

Nanni Balestrini | “I write to you opposite the balcony from whence I contemplate the eternal light whose radiant fire slowly fades on the distant horizon”

2020-05-272020-07-07 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: AUTONOMIA · Communism · Nanni Balestrini · Potere Operaio · Revolution · SabotageLeave a comment

At one point in ‘Blackout’, Balestrini writes, “This poem should not be published because it is a political manifesto.” The historical events with which ‘Blackout’ is concerned and toward which it is critical began with the wave of conflicts in 1968 at the universities and factories and eventually spread throughout the West. The protests culminated in the “troubled autumn” of 1969, eventually involving the entire Italian working class in strikes, demonstrations, and acts of sabotage.

Bertolt Brecht | A lesson in sabotage

2020-03-152020-03-15 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Bertolt Brecht · Communism · Sabotage · Vladimir LeninLeave a comment

A lesson in sabotage Modifying a machine After the machine so that it won’t work without you So far improve it that you alone are good enough for it Give it a secret fault that you alone can repair Yes, alter it so that any other man will destroy it If the works it without you That’s what we call: modifying a machine. Modify your machine, saboteur! A lesson in sabotage Sabotage, mother of the factory Just as a mother knows what she has given birth to Wakes in the night at the baby’s slightest…

Nanni Balestrini | “I close my eyes and start to sing”

2019-05-212022-09-14 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: AUTONOMIA · Blackout · Class Struggle · Communism · Lotta Continua · Mariarosa Dalla Costa · Nanni Balestrini · Potere Operaio · Revolution · Riots · Sabotage · The Golden Horde · The Strategy of Refusal · Vogliamo TuttoLeave a comment

NANNI BALESTRINI (1935-2019) I close my eyes and start to sing threads are entangled and transformed into spots whose dance moves ever more slowly I sang my repertoire then I started monologues with my eyes closed I walked back and forth in the cell four steps forward four steps back I invented dialogues for two characters that spoke different languages like at the cinema when the film ends there are those who make love who smoke there are those who merely exist Nanni Balestrini, the radical Italian experimental visual artist, poet, and novelist known for recombinatory, revolutionary…

The Invisible Committee | The Coming Insurrection

2018-12-122018-12-12 Categories: DériveTags: Class Struggle · Communism · Democracy · Marxism · Resistance · Revolution · Sabotage · Tarnac · The Coming Insurrection · The Invisible Committee2 Comments

From whatever angle you approach it, the present offers no way out. This is not the least of its virtues. From those who seek hope above all, it tears away every firm ground. Those who claim to have solutions are contradicted almost immediately. Everyone agrees that things can only get worse. “The future has no future” is the wisdom of an age that, for all its appearance of perfect normalcy, has reached the level of consciousness of the first punks. The sphere of political representation has come to a close. From left to right, it’s the same nothingness striking the…

Two Poets — Ida Börjel & Amiri Baraka

2018-11-042020-06-03 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Amiri Baraka · Ida Börjel · Karen Brodine · Sabotage · Sean BonneyLeave a comment

Ida Börjel is one of the most striking voices in contemporary poetry. Each of her much-praised and awarded collections forms a cohesively and rigoursly composed whole that is always rooted in extensive research and a strong thematic principle. Her collection “Miximum Ca’Canny; the Sabotage Manuals“ appears to be both a practical handbook and a philosophical study of the various ways the language of power and authority can be sabotaged, a recurring theme in Börjel’s poetry.

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