Few have noted that Chantal Akerman’s last film No Home Movie and her death in 2015 represented, more than any other work of art or event, the receding of a certain form of cinema and a certain way of thinking about film. While this formal and conceptual approach known as modern cinema has not yet come to an end, its adventurers have become rare; Chantal Akerman was the most singular of them all. For Akerman, ‘modern’ was probably not a rallying cry, but simply a word with ambiguous i...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Curated by French thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, the exhibition “In the troubled air…” sets forth a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic tone, sketching channels of respiration and resistance to confront the persuasive culture of capitalism which has filtered into everything. The title, taken from Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads), invokes emotion that flows beyond and is not constricted to one sole subject, where the Lorcian idea of “duende” (...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Leslie Kaplan | Miss Nobody Knows Chantal Akerman | Eine Familie in Brüssel Jean Daive | Antonio Gramsci Jean Daive | Le Nœud EDITION RETOUCHES / ÄNDERUNGSSCHREIBEREI N°1 & N°2 Georg Wiesing-Brandes | Walter Benjamin. Das Pariser Adressbuch Lectura Dantis. Zeitgenössische Dichtung im Dialog mit Dante Alighieris “Commedia” Stéphane Bouquet | Tout se tient Stéphane Mandelbaum | Katalog. Museum für Moderne Kunst Annie Bourneuf | Im Rücken des Engels der Geschichte Eleanor Careles...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
[...] der zustrom unterschiedlicher empfindungen durch das fliessen der worte (über und durch die haut) und die zersplitterungen eines wesens auf ein blatt papier zu übertragen. also verweigert sich die poesie einer repräsentativen logik oder einem solchen verstehen, lässt alle versuche einer klassifizierung in sich zusammenfallen. und man weiss, dass der negationismus zwei ressourcen hat, von denen eine darin besteht, nicht zu sehen, was in der tat nicht mehr sichtbar ist, während die a...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
For Didi-Huberman the only thing to be gained from the Medusa myth is that it reveals Perseus' victorious cunning—he having succeeded with the help of Medusa's reflection in his shield in decapitating the monster. To survive and to bear witness it is necessary to apply cunning. It is above all necessary to muster the ”courage to gain insight” into a numbing and/or life-threatening reality.| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
I’m actually not talking here under my own name. You should perceive and conceive of Antoine Volodine as a collective author, a name that includes the writings, voices, and poems of many other authors. You should think of my physical presence, in front of this microphone, as that of a delegate whose mandate is to represent the others, my colleagues unable to appear in front of you because they’re mentally distant, because they’re imprisoned, or because they’re dead. You should accept ...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
a kind of counter-history—is that poetry? Chantal Akerman: Œuvre écrite et parlée Antoine Volodine: Vivre dans le feu Leslie Kaplan: The Book of Skies Éric Baudelaire: Make, Do, With — Film and exhibitions, 2011-2021 Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval: les frontières brûlent Heiner Müller Jahrbuch 1 (2024) Christophe Hanna: Gloire Emmanuel Hocquard, Alexandre Delay: Le voyage à Reykjavik Archive of Dreams. Surrealist Impulses, Networks, and Vision Sylvain Courtoux: L’Avant-gar...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Translation by Mathilda Cullen “It’s already a lot to go on, most don’t realize it. I could let go, slacken my hands, let them slide along the ropes, or choose something else, softer, easier.” — Danielle Collobert, Murder, trans. Nathanaël. 94 1 You are trapped all alone in the catastrophe in a tiny ray of light. 2 A room, white, long, stretched, the curve of a skull 3 Michael P. talks about attending conspiratorial trade union meetings just so he can see Danielle Collobert a...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Es bedeutet schon viel, weiterzumachen, dessen sind sich die meisten nicht bewußt. Ich könnte alles fahren lassen, die Hände lösen und sie an einem Seil entlang gleiten lassen, oder mir etwas anderes, sanfteres, leichteres suchen. — Danielle Collobert 1 Du bist ganz allein in der Katastrophe in einem winzigen Lichtstrahl gefangen 2 Ein Raum weiß, lang, gezogen, die Kurve eines Schädels 3 Michael P. erzählt von konspiratven Gewerkschaftstreffen, die er einzig aufsucht, um Danie...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
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 Fra...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Liberté. Danielle Collobert découvrant 30 ans avant Taros le concept de «pâte». // diese Aneignung [Appropriation] ist keineswegs skandalös das die «Bewegung» si // von Dichtern der negativen Moderne sich in Raquel Ateliers in Malakoff trafen // Arme an den Körper geschmiegt Wangenknochen die hervortreten Schläfen li // 947 Fotografie von Denise Colombo 43,5 x 36 cm; Sammlung André S. Labarthe| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
wenn Schreiben & Fotografie miteinander verbunden sind dann durch die Zeit // Ist Mord (Meurtre) nicht der Bericht Colloberts über den Mord an ihrer Identität // vom 26.5.1943 über die Nummerierung der Sterbeurkunden der Konzentrats // Auflösung moralischer Werte gesellschaftlicher Heuchelei Falschaussagen Sadi // ist jetzt sinnlos ihr eigener Tod naht nicht mehr mit Literatur zu tun er ist die absolute // wären Berge außer daß die Luft darüber auch schwarz ist: schwarz wie Rauch di //| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
taumelnd durch das schwindende Gedächtnis fallende Silben einer anderen Sp // Manuskript von Non, rien wird dem Mitarbeiter von Seghers/Laffont ins Auto ge // 2 s/w Fotografien aus dem TV montiert auf Papier, je 8,7 x 12,5 cm Epitaph // aber wie könnt ihr sicher sein daß das was gesagt wurde die Wahrheit ist & 24 juillet 1973 Ravello Hôtel Palumbo chambre 12 (Denis Roche La Disparition| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Cahiers du Cinéma has asked you for an interview, because you’re a “Philosopher” and we wanted to do something philosophical, but more specifically because you like and admire Godard’s work. What do you think of his recent TV programs? Like many people, I was moved, and it’s a lasting emotion. Maybe I should explain my image of Godard. As someone who works a great deal, he must be a very solitary figure. But it’s not just any solitude, it’s an extraordinarily animated solitude....| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Any attempt to give an account of the histories of feminism and art in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century inevitably stumbles upon the figure of Carla Lonzi (1931–1982), a renowned art critic throughout the 1960s, who would later become the most emblematic figure of Italian feminism. Lonzi’s intellectual and political trajectory is marked by her withdrawal from the art world in 1970, as she founded the radical feminist group Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt) with Italian ...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
:: 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 degenerat...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Nathalie Quintane is among the most known experimental poets of France. To quote her from what she writes about herself in the French government’s publications website, this is what she writes- “My name is still Nathalie Quintane. I have not changed my date of birth. I still live in the same place. I am few in number but I am determined.” Nathalie belongs to the generation of post 60s French literary activists. Rupak Bardhan Roy: Let me start by asking, what is literature to you an...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
:: translated by mathilda cullen communism of spirits/document #1 (the bright work) imec, fonds althusser, alt2.a23.03-01. i have always heard the breathing of my comrade. the telluric shock. résonne dans la conscience commune**. suivi la cabale des dévots. and the perception of the body as an awkward place of extreme instability. the stacking of inner forms of thinking. horribly stretched time. contradictions, gaps, & aporias. that solemn pulsating below. the...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
communismus der geister / dokumente #1 (das helle werk) imec, fonds althusser, alt2.a23.03-01. das atmen des gefährten habe ich stets vernommen. die tellurische erschütterung. résonne dans la conscience commune*. suivi la cabale des dévots. auch die wahrnehmung des körpers als unbehaglichen ort massloser instabilität. die aufstapelung innerer formen des denkens. grauenhaft gedehnter zeit. widersprüche, lücken & aporien. das selbständig pulsierende darunter. das tödlic...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
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 ni...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
A letter from a jail cell Dear Father, the River, whose stomach was cut open, has declared war on our tiny house on the bank, hasn’t she? Right in front of the house you must be looking out for someone who will help you with embankment poles to straighten the river, to fill her holes with sandbags. In the murky water, which rises like a bamboo lance, you must be gazing at the sesame plantation — laden with fruits ready for harvest. You must be thinking a fistful of rice in your mouth i...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
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 li...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Nathalie Quintane discusses her experience as a writer, the relationship between literature and action, changing forms and changing society. Avec Tomates (2010), Nathalie Quintane a planté d’incomparables fruits : un livre qui parvenait à réunir les militants de poésie contemporaine et les amateurs d’action politique. Ce n’est pourtant pas le premier livre de son auteure, évidemment pas le premier livre de son genre : mais il s’est manifesté là une intelligence du présent...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
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 ...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
In 1976, the Basque country was restless— certainly on the Spanish side of the border, where ETA,1 the Basque separatist movement, was engaged in an armed struggle against the powers of Madrid. Félix Guattari was dreaming of building a federation of regional protest movements, which could open up secondary fronts and weaken the Nation-State. Despite his extensive network of contacts, he never managed to realize this perilous project, which was located on the cusp between democratic combat ...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
In Alexandra Kollontai’s own words, she lived many lives.1 Her life, brimming with events, relationships and disillusionment, is fascinating in itself. Reading Kollontai means tracing the li…| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))