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…

ACTION #5 [THE POET AS PRODUCER] & ACTION #6 [THE BUSINESS OF MR JULIUS CAESAR AFTER BRECHT OR THE MIGRANTS OF REGGIO CALABRIA]

2022-05-18 Categories: Poetry & Poetics · WorksTags: Arthur Rimbaud · Bertolt Brecht · Sergei Tretyakov · Walter BenjaminLeave a comment

“Poetry has to be made by everyone, not just one.” [Lautréamont] The “interruption” is a process of shaping, i.e. the political function of separating causalities [certainties of everyday life / political life] from one another. Like Brecht’s theory of the alienation effect, which is used in epic theatre [non-Aristotelian, because empathy is a suggestion]. How assembly in the Arcades Project is not only used as a turning point, but also as a construction principle. In 1934 Benjamin wrote the essay “The Author as Producer” for the anti-fascist writers’ conference at the “Institut pour l’étude du fascisme” [the text…

Devin Fore | Soviet Factography: Production Art in an Information Age (Sergei Tret’iakov)

2019-12-052021-02-18 Categories: Philosophy & PoliticsTags: Factography · Guy Debord · Jurij Tynianov · Laszlo Moholy-Nagy · LEF · Sergei Tretyakov · Viktor ShklovskyLeave a comment

If facts destroy theory, then all the better for theory. —Viktor Shklovsky, “In Defense of the Sociological Method,” 1927 Any discussion of factography first has to deal with the conspicuous strangeness of the word “factography” itself, an awkward and selfconsciously technicist term coined in Russia in the latter half of the 1920s to designate a certain aesthetic practice preoccupied with the inscription of facts. Those who are familiar with contemporaneous avant-garde movements in other countries and who may also be skeptical of the early Soviet zeal for linguistic invention will wonder if factography is not simply another word…

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…

Sergio Raimondi | Poems

2019-06-112019-06-14 Categories: Poetry & PoeticsTags: Bertolt Brecht · Sergei Tretyakov · Sergio RaimondiLeave a comment

When the world changes, literature must as well. This is the credo motivating the thinking and writing of Argentine poet Sergio Raimondi, born in 1968 in Bahia Blanca. A somewhat gruff genius loci inhabits this place: the nearby port of Ingeniero White is one of Argentina’s main seaports; the nation’s most important petrochemical complexes is also located here. But Sergio Raimondi draws his very inspiration from this genius loci: even in his early work Poesía civil (published in German as Zivilpoesie in 2005), Raimondi—who teaches contemporary literature at the Universidad del Sur in Bahia Blanca—examines in depth Argentina’s changing…

Vladimir Mayakovsky | What Is LEF Fighting For? ((Manifesto))

2019-01-272019-01-28 Categories: Philosophy & Politics · Poetry & PoeticsTags: Manifesto · Sergei Tretyakov · Vladimir MayakovskyLeave a comment

The year 1905. After it, reaction. Reaction settled in with autocracy and the double oppression of the merchant and the factory owner. Reaction created art and life in its own image and according to its own taste. The art of the Symbolists (Bely, Balmont), mystics (Chulkov, Gippius), and sexual psychopaths (Rozanov)–the life of the petty bourgeois and philistines. The revolutionary parties smashed their lives; art rose up and smashed their tastes. The first impressionistic flare up was in 1909 (the collection A Trap for Judges). The flames were fanned for three years. Fanned into Futurism. The first book of the union of…

BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))

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