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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))
Es wird nie wieder eine Rückkehr geben – nur noch Durchgänge – einen Durchgang!… ////////////////////////////////// Danielle Collobert: Œuvres II, Textes manuscrits laissés inédits ////////////////////////////////////////// 1 Kennengelernt, so Jean-Pierre Faye, haben wir uns im Mai 1968 im Hôtel de Massa, dem Gründungsort des französischen Schriftstellerverbands. Danielle kam geräuschlos, mit einer Bescheidenheit, die ihrer vollkommenen Gelassenheit entsprach, und sagte, das...| 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))
Published in Lana Turner | A Journal of Poetry and Opinion no.14 What I’m afraid of most of all is lest I become a “poet.” After the publication of her first book, Three Clicks Left (1978) — which went through numerous editions in a short time and sold over 40,000 copies, something only Yannis Ritsos or Odysseus Elytis had previously managed to do — the Greek anarchist poet Katerina Gogou (1940-1993) became the object of police surveillance. Her apartment was searched several times ...| 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))
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There is death in life and it astonishes me that people pretend not to know that: death whose pitiless presence we feel in each change we survive, for one must learn how to die slowly. We must learn how to die: there’s our whole life. I am not ashamed, Dear, to have wept, another Sunday, cold and too early, in the gondola that kept turning and turning, passing vaguely outlined neighborhoods that seemed to me to belong to another Venice located in Limbo. And the voice of the barcaiolo asking...| 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))
Schreibheft. Zeitschrift für Literatur 104: Bjørn Aamodt, Lyn Hejinian, Rosmarie Waldrop Tor Ulven: Grabbeigaben Félix Guattari: 65 Träume von Franz Kafka Gilles Deleuze: Über die Malerei Kim Hyesoon: Autobiographie des Todes Furio Jesi: Spartakus. Symbologie der Revolte Ernesto García López: Hospital del aire Jan Pieter Barbian: Literaturpolitik im NS-Staat Volker Pantenburg: Einfachheit ohne Vereinfachung. Zur Praxis Harun Farockis Léon Poliakov: Vom Hass zum Genozid. Das Dritte Rei...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Leslie Kaplan | The Book of Skies Hélène Giannecchini | Alix Cléo Roubaud: a portrait in fragments Chantal Akerman | Œuvre écrite et parlée (3 volumes) Chantal Akerman | Travelling Bernard Eisenschitz | Starting Places. A Conversation with Robert Kramer Thomas Helbig | Film als Form des Denkens. Jean-Luc Godard. Geschichte[n] des Kinos. Pierre Guyotat et l’Algérie | Sous la direction de Catherine Brun, Guillaume Fau et Donatien Grau Patrick Bouchain, Donatien Grau | Pierre Guyotat...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
My book ‘A Small Poetics of Insurrection’ (Alienist Manifesto, 2021) is out in a Portuguese translation by António Gregório, published by Barco Bêbado. Cover and graphics by André Lemos and Sara Mealha. PEQUENA POÉTICA DA INSURREIÇÃO de Peter Bouscheljong Barco Bêbado, 2024 “Este é um esboço sobre Dante. Sobre o Dantismo de Peter Weiss e Pasolini. Sobre o Dantismo de Peter Weiss e Pasolini segundo Fredric Jameson. Sobre Dante, que foi libertado da psiquiatria para a emigraçã...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
[…] Agnès Varda: Would you please tell me your definitions of reality and fiction? Pier Paolo Pasolini: There’s no difference between reality and fiction, because cinema is reality expressing itself through itself. In reality, I can photograph a man walking down the street. He’s not aware that he’s being filmed, and this is reality. If I choose an actor to play that man, then there’s another reality, the actor’s reality. But it’s always reality, it’s never fiction. […] AV...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
1 A Lass die Welt zugrunde gehen [M. Duras // press kit, Les Films Molière, 1977, fonds Jean-Pierre Joncolas, archives de la Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma, Université de Lausanne]. Man muss die Kraft zur totalen Kritik, zur Verweigerung, zur verzweifelt sinnlosen Anklage aufbringen. Es gibt keine politische Lösung, die uns wesentlich berücksichtigen würde. 1 B Zwecklos noch an ein planetarisches, ökologisches Gleichgewicht zu glauben. Weil uns ein falsches Denken und Ve...| 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))
By Mathilde Girard and Frédéric Neyrat The margins of cinema Frédéric Neyrat: Let’s start here: What is film’s place, and more specifically your films, in the entertainment industry of a capitalist economy? In other words, who is the enemy these days? Elisabeth Perceval: It’s funny because yesterday morning I was saying to Nicolas… Do you remember? Nicolas Klotz: Yes, I was asking Elisabeth about our place in contemporary French cinema and she was saying that it was like an un...| 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))
The ties between French and American poetry are ancient and profound. In the introduction to his 1984 The Random House Book of XXth Century French Poetry, Paul Auster reminds his anglophone reader of the perennial contribution of the French language in general and French literature and poetry in particular to its British and later American counterparts, going back to John Gower and Chaucer. Focusing on the modern period, he claims that “American poetry of the past hundred years would be in...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Ces lignes reviennent de loin – d’il y a longtemps, très longtemps, en un temps presque oublié et dont il ne reste rien, en un temps où de jeunes gens, coupables de n’avoir eu que quelques mois ou quelques années pendant la guerre (celle de 39), prenaient pour modèles les rares opposants au nazisme del a dite guerre, tentant à leur tour de susciter un combat et une résistance dignes de ce nom, en un temps où les collectifs d’intellectuels issus de la bourgeoisie se structuraie...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Die Hölle ist nicht der Ort des Schmerzes. Sie ist der Ort, wo man leiden läßt. Sie ist nicht das ÜBEL. Das ÜBEL hat seinen Platz in uns. Wir können der Hölle nicht als Ort dienen. —Edmond Jabès: Dantes Hölle 1 das Kilodrama ist eingetreten* (in alle Richtungen: Passierscheine und Losungen (versteckte Codes, Chiffren und dog whistle) / algorithmisch aufgeladene Echokammern / ein Präzedenzfall oder ganz gewöhnlicher Bluff 2 heute (Montag, 9. Oktober) Transkriptionen ei...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Tripwire 19 is out now! A Sean Bonney Tribute Portfolio and other contributions, including my text dreaming of one thing [subversive chronicle] Belén Roca, translated by Noah Mazer, Adelaide Ivánova, translated by Chris Daniels, stevie redwood, Cait O’Kane, Mau Baiocco, Peter Bouscheljong, translated by Jonathan Styles. Zheng Xiaoqiong, translated by Zhou Xiaojing, Mayamor, translated by Eric Abalajon, Afrizal Malna, translated by Daniel Owen, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, translated by Shook, J...| 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))
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 s...| 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))
TEFLON # 29 Introduction: Peter Bouscheljong: Μικρή ποιητική της εξέγερσης Ο Γερμανός ποιητής επιχειρεί να συγκροτήσει μια γενεαλογία της «ποιητικής της εξέγερσης» από τον Ρεμπό και τον Μποντλέρ μέχρι τον Αρτό και τον Παζολίνι, από τον Μαγιακόφσκι μέχρι την Άννα Μέντελσον και τη Μιγιό Βεσ...| 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))
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 t...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Radical politics are at the forefront of the work of contemporary poet Manuel Joseph, informing his treatment of issues such as surveillance, Middle Eastern politics, mass media, and consumerist culture. Examining this contestatory stance, critics Christophe Hanna and Olivier Quintyn interpret the politically charged use of montage in Joseph’s book, Heroes are Heroes are, according to pragmatist philosophy1. Heroes are Heroes are juxtaposes appropriated text from a George H. W. Bush Gulf W...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Hugo Garcia Manriquez Commonplace (Cardboard House Press) Nathalie Quintane Tomatoes + Why doesn’t the far left read literature (Kenning Editions) Simone White or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press) Elsa Dorlin Self-Defense. A Philosophy of Violence (Verso) Jacopo Galimberti Images of Class. Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (Verso) Stacy Szymaczek The Pasolini Book (Golias Books) Marius Loris Rodionoff Objections (Éditions Amsterdam) D.S. Mariott Before Whiteness (C...| 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))
Ma langue est poétique. It is poetic in its unrolling and its pieces and in the wake of its pieces, it is not composed of words attached to words by accident, by suffering, by stapling cor- ners and catch-lines and straps and frictions and stuck- together strings meticulously glued to each other to make up their length. It is not extended by a miracle in perpetual dis- equilibrium, it has breath, is a breath, is the breath, bypasses all obstacles in passing through the sublime effect, in con...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
to Maria Inmaculada Barrios Die in thought every morning and you will not be afraid to die. —The Hagakure Guide Give me, lord, an angry death. A death as offensive as those I’ve offended. A death that stands for the rains of Santiago de Compostela, a death that kills all who have offended me. Give me, lord, a death from the elements, one that stuns and petrifies. Wastes snot and tears pleading for mercy and wishing death on anyon...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
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 h...| 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))
that you’ll go down if you don’t stand up for yourself — surely you see that. Bertolt Brecht January, 78 my parents floated somewhere on the left. I visualized the left as a wide mysterious plain drifting beyond my left cheekbone. I know I was left-handed but what else did I inherit? hints and whispers of commie over the phone. my grandmother stubbornly mute in some kind of hearing. so when Mr. Bant, my 7th grade teacher, decided to spend a special week on the red menace, I was ...| 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))
Barricades He’s fond of peppering in “on this side of the barricades” when speaking political meaning, his critique of changes at hand isn’t coming from the right meaning, don’t purity spiral peeps, be stout allow room for growth don’t be a gendarme of revolution, be a full actor, unafraid aware that the barricades can pop up anywhere in front and back Thing & Thang Is the U.S. a nation or just an economic platform? because, a nation, is (or can be) an expres...| 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))
" A revolutionary movement does not spread by contamination / But by resonance / Something that constitutes itself here / Resonates with the shock wave given off by something that constitute…| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
When, a bit over a year ago, we had the pleasure of meeting with British writer and theorist Mark Fisher in Rome, his book Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures was…| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))