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13 Sunday Dec 2015
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“There is no culture unless an intimate relationship, on the level of instinct, exists between a people and its poets”.
Herbert Read, The Forms of Things Unknown
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27 Monday Jul 2015
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“The act of accepting meaningless is in itself a meaningful act”.
Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
02 Tuesday Jun 2015
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“Our opposition therefore goes both beyond environmentalism and against it if necessary – against all its language borrowed from technocrats, administrators and politicians. Our opposition carries within it, admittedly in a rather unformed way, the dream of another way of living, free from commodities, free from the state and free from industrial work. A life which can only develop from below and which can, necessarily, only be realised through conflict”.
Campaigners against Sivens dam in France, Sivens sans retenue: Feuilles d’automne 2014
01 Monday Jun 2015
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“Anarchy is life; the life that awaits us after we have freed ourselves from the yoke”
Gustav Landauer, Revolution and Other Writings
30 Saturday May 2015
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“Anyone who hopes to be free must first be aware of their chains and not just carry on living as if they weren’t there”.
Guillaume Carnino, Divertir pour dominer
28 Thursday May 2015
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“His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”.
Walter Benjamin describes the angel of history, Illuminations
27 Wednesday May 2015
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“Men once believed that the establishment of universal suffrage would guarantee the freedom of the people. That, alas, was a great illusion…”
Michael (Mikael) Bakunin, Oeuvres
26 Tuesday May 2015
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“We are not fighting for nature – we are nature defending itself!”
French anti-industrial slogan
22 Friday May 2015
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“The specialisation of labour arising from mass production is increasingly reducing the worker to the level of a dead piece of machinery, a cog or lever functioning with automatic precision”
Artur Holitscher. Amerika heute und morgen
