War – Bob Marley

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned –
Everywhere is war –
Me say war.
That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man’s skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes –
Me say war.
That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race –
Dis a war.
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained –
Now everywhere is war – war.
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed –
Well, everywhere is war –
Me say war.
War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south –
War – war –
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight – we find it necessary –
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil –
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil –
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil –
Good over evil, yeah!

We Ourselves – The Politics of Us

The first person plural

‘We’ is an ectoplasmic form found in the majority of human languages. It is capable of embracing everything that lies between myself and the rest of the world.Through ‘we’, many subjects situate themselves, limit themselves, negotiate their similarities and differences, and engage in politics.
Tristan Garcia

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Andromeda: Science Fiction Almanac

An old Yugoslav collection of science fiction works – in Serbo-Croatian – published by Galaksija (Galaxy) magazine as the Andromeda almanac in 1977. It included A report from the Cosmos by Ljubiša Jocić and an excerpt from 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues by Sam Lundwall which are below (in English). It’s worth preserving and sharing it.

A report from the Cosmos – Ljubiša Jocić
we sailed among free electrons and protons
electronic rotation is just being established somewhere
and not in the same direction we came across rare
hydrogen fields and entered the plasma once again
i can’t report what kind of malfunction happened on the ship
because the specialist for electronic devices
had no soul like the other members of the crew and
i can’t contact them
i find myself after the ship disintegrated
in the state of my surroundings
and after the catastrophe my affective life
remained untouched i’m using the spirituality of the electrons
and i’m reporting this stop milky way galaxy 23 – 26
Translated by Gorica Orsholits

Excerpt from 2018 A. D. or the King Kong Blues – Sam Lundwall
“Alright, alright,” said the presenter, “you can’t always win but anyone can try. And with that, ladies and gentlemen, let’s move on the next part of our program THIS IS MY LIFE, our spectacular show where four different families try to appeal to your compassion by telling you about their deplorable situations. Those of you who have a voting button on your television can choose the family whose story moves you the most. The prize, as always, goes to the family with the most votes. Welcome to SM5X, the television station which always offers you…”

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Aesthetic Dissent with Wandering Spirits and Wild Ghosts

A copy of Guidelines for Revolution in Hell (2020)

The process of inventing a new visual language is also a revolution, a revolution of sensibility, in a sense as important as the armed seizure of power and thus the change of the world. Walter Benjamin, a German theorist from the world of the living, said that the Nazis had aestheticized politics, and in order to counteract this, the avant-garde had to politicize the aesthetic. The wandering ghosts, as the new vanguard class, are the natural subjects for the birth of a new art, and while issuing political dissent, they should also strive to produce aesthetic dissent. This new aesthetic value must come from a pluralistic narrative. The ideology propagated by the underworld is highly dependent on a single narrative chain and value system, i.e. the opportunity to be reincarnated depends on karma, reincarnation and the judgment and verdict of the bureaucratic system headed by the King of Hell. Such a unipolar narrative is a source of oppression, and it also dissolves the possibility of resistance by the spirits. The spirits should realize that the ideology of the underworld presents itself as the only possible value, and thus inhibits us from imagining more alternative values. Those alternative values are not unimaginable, but they must be beyond the reach of the existing order, and they are what the spirits living under the oppression of the existing order need to try to imagine. After all, the necessary foundation of all revolutions is imagination itself.

Source: http://www.leapleapleap.com/2021/07/guidelines-for-revolution-in-hell/

The Philosophy of Parochialism

By Radomir Konstantinovic; originally published as Filosofija Palanke

Edited and with an Introduction by Branislav Jakovljevic, Translation by Ljiljana Nikolic and Branislav Jakovljevic and available for the first time in English in 2021

The Philosophy of Parochialism is Radomir Konstantinović’s (1928–2011) most celebrated and reviled book, first published in Belgrade as Filosofija palanke in 1969. “A virtually unique example of indigenous Balkan discourse independent of European philosophy … developed as a study of the spirit of the palanka or market-town mentality, Konstantinovic’s book discerns at the margin of Enlightened Europe an oppositional rationality, the provincial mind versus Hegelian cosmopolitan reason. While the latter is open to the world with relational subjectivity, the reasoning of the provincial mind closes itself into a subjectivity that excludes the world.”
—Dušan I. Bjelic, from the introduction to Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation

https://www.press.umich.edu/5639665/philosophy_of_parochialism

Excerpt from the original text Filosofija Palanke:

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UAE Venice Biennale Fabrication System

Architecture is in constant flux between the virtual and the real, as everything that was or is practical and real in architecture emanates from the virtual. A young team from the University of Tokyo participating in this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale (“How will we live together?”) introduced a new interactive virtual building process, which you can follow live and in VR, that makes the interaction between the real and the virtual more flexible in collaboration with the curators of the UAE national pavilion.

More information about Obuchi and Sato labs’ (University of Tokyo) contribution and project can be found here:
https://t-ads.org/projects/pavilions/venice_biennale.html
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/ja/articles/z0113_00222.html

https://venice2021.t-ads.org/

Autopoetics of sound and signs: Toward poetry by other means

Autopoetics aims to create poetry which doesn’t rely on language and its known grammatical-syntactical structure. It is an attempt to overcome the limitations of currently known linguistic territories which are inadequate for artistic communication through simple and non-purely-verbal poetic forms (e.g. visual poetry, Signalism). Autopoetics doesn’t arise from the act of will and consciousness but from the space of the preconscious impulse; from the time and place before knowledge. With autopoetics, the poetess attempts to create a world, from the beginning, and not only to explain it. Autopoetics which shies away from language, creates a cosmic poetry that addresses everyone and isn’t constrained by the borders of language, nationalism(s), or cultures. Thus autopoetics explores the possibility of strengthening the sensuous experience, of creating a deeper involvement in poetic sensibility through a reduction of constraints of language.

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