Until the philosophy which hold one race superiorAnd anotherInferiorIs finallyAnd permanentlyDiscreditedAnd abandoned –Everywhere is war –Me say war.That until there no longerFirst class and second class citizens of any nationUntil the colour of a man’s skinIs of no more significance than the colour of his eyes –Me say war.That until the basic human rightsAre equally …
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Dissent as an Event in Art
Carla Lonzi, Art Critic – Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) – An Excerpt It wasn’t an interest in art, my interest that is, at the beginning, I have to tell the truth, if I retrace the steps from the very beginning it comes out that I immediately had this existential feeling, like a warning from within, but my …
Resistance in the World of Art: New relations between sensibility, form and inform
Par les damné.e.s de la terre – Des Voix de Luttes 1969-1988
By The Wretched of the Earth – Voices of Struggle 1969-1988 Curated by French rapper Rocé this ambitious compilation refers to Frantz Fanon’s book “Les damnés de la terre” and collects rare protest songs from around the world -mostly from former French colonies-. All are sung or delivered in French and the tracklist also features …
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The Supreme Music: Music and Politics by Giorgio Agamben
An Excerpt If the access to the word is, in this sense, museically determined, we understand that for the Greeks, the nexus between music and politics was so evident that Plato and Aristotle treat musical questions only in the works they consecrate to politics. The relation of what they called μουσική (which included poetry, music …
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