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Attaques #5 Pierre Alferi, Leslie Kaplan, Nathalie Quintane, etc. | Contre la littérature politque Jean-Marie Gleize | Je deviens. Séances Hélène Giannecchini | Alix Cléo Roubaud: a portrait in fragments Sean Bonney | from the book of living or dying Sean Bonney | Astrophil and Stella Catherine Brun, Guillaume Fau, Donatien Grau | Pierre Guyotat et l’Algérie Bernard Heidsieck | Poésie action – Variations sur Bernard Heidsieck Jacques-Henri Michot | Au jour dit. Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022) Antonin Artaud | The New Revelations of Being & Other Mystical writings Marguerite Duras | My Cinema Anne-Marie Albiach / Louis…

Peter Bouscheljong | invisible relations

2023-07-192025-06-07 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Aimé Césaire · André Breton · Édouard Glissant · Communism · La Révolution Surrealiste · Peter Bouscheljong · Revolution · Sean Bonney · Surrealism · The Paris Commune · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

:: translated by mathilda cullen they say i was having a wank in the royal parks. gunfire is a streetplan, i say. so is marx. so the type of equotations they call pistol-whips. sean bonney in june 1935, shortly after midnight, when most of the delegates had already left the huge salle de la mutualité, paul eluard delivered a speech written by andré breton at the “international writers’ congress in defense of culture” in paris. it was a reckoning with an increasingly degenerate policy of the french communist party, which had been reduced to an auxiliary wing…

Sean Bonney | die allmende (translated by Mathilda Cullen)

2023-06-122023-06-15 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Sean BonneyLeave a comment

Satz 1 der kuckuck ist ein schöner vogel sie trillert wie sie fliegt Der Kuckuck ist ein – KNALL – er war ein riesenfreak die parzen hüllten seinen hagel und schießwesen, seine pronomen & seinen geist ein: irgendeine doku anschauen waagen, worte schlichen sich an, trällert als sie – geld mit einsicht gleichsetzen, das wort ‘träumerei’ verwendet sauber wie ein eingetauchter heiliger- ess ich nicht dieses brot / gestern war ich noch tot Meine person wurde genommen war nicht deine, wer heimlich meine kleinen schenkel & die britische anarchistische bewegung blieb drinnen: halt, magnetisches meer…

Peter Bouscheljong | die unsichtbaren verhältnisse

2022-06-072025-06-07 Categories: WorksTags: Aimé Césaire · André Breton · Édouard Glissant · Communism · Revolution · Sean Bonney · Surrealism · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

they say i was having a wank in the royal parks. gunfire is a streetplan, i say. so is marx. so the type of equations they call pistol-whips. sean bonney im juni 1935 kurz nach mitternacht, als ein großteil der delegierten die riesige salle de la mutualité bereits verlassen hat, trägt paul eluard auf dem »internationalen schriftstellerkongress zur verteidigung der kultur« in paris, eine von andré breton verfaßte rede vor. es wird eine abrechnung mit einer zusehends degenerierten politik der kommunistischen partei frankreichs, die zu einem hilfstrupp der udssr und des stalinismus verkommen war und sich von dem…

Lyn Hejinian | From ‘Positions of the Sun’

2021-08-302022-08-31 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Arthur Rimbaud · Charles Baudelaire · Friedrich Hölderlin · Lyn Hejinian · Michel de Certeau · Sean BonneyLeave a comment

The book pivots around the disorientation of the “aesthetics of minutiae, with their promise of infinitude”; a pointed and inconclusive protest against an “awareness of orders of magnitude that include atrocity, war, capitalism , and perhaps—though it may be mortality’s saving grade—death.”

Sean Bonney | Anna Mendelssohn—”Minds do exist to agitate and provoke / this is the reason I do not conform”

2020-07-042020-07-04 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Anna Mendelssohn · Bertolt Brecht · Karl Marx · Sean Bonney · The Angry BrigadeLeave a comment

If you want to find good poetry written in Britain, you have to go looking for it: with very few exceptions, it is hidden away behind a poetry of more or less genteel self-expression, metrical sentimentalities and easily digested liberal homilies that are essentially reports on police reality. But there is a vast seem of artistically and politically complex poetry also being written here, and Anna Mendelssohn, who sometimes also published under the name Grace Lake, wrote some of the best. It is chaotic, at times manic and compulsive, by turns mocking and playful, hurt and exasperated, and always…

Best Books of 2019

2019-12-022019-12-02 Categories: Reading ListTags: Adelaide Ivánova · Anne Boyer · Antonin Artaud · Chantal Akerman · Fred Moten · Jay Bernard · Jean-Marie Gleize · Jerome Rothenberg · Karl Marx · Mario Tronti · Marion Bell · Miyó Vestrini · Sean Bonney · Stuart Hall · Zaina AlsousLeave a comment

Miyó Vestrini | Grenade in Mouth Those who write are not even of a race. Nor a caste. Nor a class. Nor are they one. They ruin the point of living, like women in a world of science. Behind thick lenses, the court is never dull. They have all privileges: from philosophy up to anger, passing through conjugal relations, and the length of the paragraphs. Between the rights of man it is figured that the writer should write largely for himself first, then for the others, with a purpose well or poorly defined: to flood the window displays,…

riots and/or poetics [10/2019]

2019-09-302019-09-30 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Albert Ayler · Anne Boyer · Antonin Artaud · César Vallejo · David Rattray · Denise Riley · Elvira Hernandez · Irmgard Emmelhainz · Jacob Rogozinski · Jean-Luc Godard · Jodie Dean · Joseph Jarman · Sean Bonney · Steve Dalachinsky · William Rowe · Zaina AlsousLeave a comment

TRILCE XXVII That flood frightens me, / good memory, strong sir, implacable / cruel sweetness. It frightens me. / This house does me complete good, complete / place for this not knowing where to be. // Let’s not go in. It frightens me, this favour / of returning by minutes, by blown up bridges. / I’m not going ahead, sweet sir, / brave memory, sad / singing skeleton. // What content, of this haunted house, / gives me deaths by mercury, and blocks / with lead my conduits / to sheer reality. // The flood that doesn’t know how…

riots and/or poetics [8/2019]

2019-08-022019-08-02 Categories: Reading ListTags: Abigail Lang · Adelaide Ivánova · Cecil Taylor · Chantal Akerman · Christophe Tarkos · Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle Huillet · Jerome Rothenberg · Lyn Hejinian · Mario Tronti · Nancy Spero · Natasha Lennard · Nicholas Thoburn · Sean Bonney · Tom Raworth · Tongo Eisen-Martin · Zaina AlsousLeave a comment

The exact link is uncertain. But we know the Nazis loved / America; Hitler yearned to paint a twin, // a green room where the dead are everywhere. / Asked Abraham before the flame, to the obedient tribe // What are these statues you cling to? // Why calico, why Spanish moss, why the crickets scream. / Confederates raise the undead everywhere. // In a segregated graveyard, no stone reads / private or public; the local jail is everywhere. // Before another body is buried, a window is broken. / A window was broken. The window is broken. // I look everywhere for Fanon’s knife, waiting for…

Sean Bonney | Letters Against the Firmament

2019-05-082020-04-22 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Sean BonneyLeave a comment

I haven’t written for a while, I know. There’s not been much to write about, or maybe, if there has been I haven’t seen it. That’s leaving aside, of course, the royal birth, the jubilee pageants and the olympics, that inbred panegyric. Christ, I’ve really felt the wings of imbecility passing over me lately, over all of us. Its as if the ruling class, sheer power, whatever you want to call it, whatever it’s local franchise likes to call itself, had, via some kind of sadistic alchemy, taken the moment (around 2 in the afternoon) on 27th March 2011…

riots and/or poetics [8/2018]

2018-08-172019-09-24 Categories: Reading ListTags: Albert Ayler · Cecil Taylor · Chris Marker · David Buuck · Ed Dorn · Jean-Luc Godard · Maggie O'Sullivan · May '68 · Militant Poetics · Nanni Balestrini · Nikolas Asimos · Revolution · Riots · Sean Bonney · The Strategy of Refusal · Victor SergeLeave a comment

“he is as a neighborhood beauty queen / lauded with ribbons and canes / and with his lapdogs / who lick at the rottenness / seated at the right side / of mama democracy / he dialogues long / with the mouth of a murderer. / he raises his hand in that sustained and easy style / wiggles his fat ass / and with the boyish brilliance of an ephebe / he shits in the country / with all his soul“ Roberto Jorge Santoro | POETRY IN GENERAL (II) Manson & Mendoza; Windsuckers & Onsetters: Sonnots for Griffiths Andrea…

Sean Bonney | Notes on Militant Poetics

2018-06-152021-11-12 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Aimé Césaire · Arthur Rimbaud · Frantz Fanon · George Jackson · Jean Genet · Militant Poetics · Revolution · Sean Bonney · Sergey Nechayev · Soledad Brothers · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

Notes on Militant Poetics 1/3 “There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity when an authentic upheaval can be born . . . . (a) descent into a real hell” (Fanon) “Truth content becomes negative. [Poems] imitate a language beneath the helpless language of human beings: it is that of the dead speaking of stones and stars” (Adorno) The Situationists called poetry the “anti-matter of consumer society”, a fairly questionable claim, but one that is at least expressive of the chasm that operates between official reality’s definitions of poetry and those…

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…

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…

Best books of 2017

2017-11-302018-07-12 Categories: Reading ListTags: Aimé Césaire · Deleuze & Guattari · Georges Didi-Huberman · Harun Farocki · Louis Auguste Blanqui · Mark Fisher · Nanni Balestrini · Pierre Guyotat · Sean BonneyLeave a comment

Nanni Balestrini; Blackout / Commune Editions Heriberto Yépez; Transnational Battle Field / Commune Editions Attila József; Liste freier Ideen / roughbooks Ursula Andkjaer Olsen; Third-Millennium Heart / Action Books / Broken Dimanche Press Sean Bonney; Ghosts / Materials Georges Didi-Huberman; Die Namenlosen zwischen Licht und Schatten / Fink Pierre Guyotat; In der Tiefe / diaphanes Aimé Césaire; The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire / Wesleyan University Press The Invisible Committee; Now / Semiotext(e) Mark Fisher; The Weird and the Eerie / Repeater François Dosse; Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari / Turia + Kant Harun Farocki; Zehn, zwanzig, dreißig, vierzig. Fragment einer Autobiografie /…

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

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