#artandrevolution — Public Fediverse posts

Autonomies: **Remembering John Coltrane (1926-1967)**

https://autonomies.org/2026/09/remembering-john-coltrane-1926-1967/

Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. And so by fateful … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Poiesis #AmiriBaraka #ArtandRevolution #FredMoten #Jazz #JohnColtrane #ToniMorrison

Autonomies: **Forms of Attention**

https://autonomies.org/2026/07/forms-of-attention/

by Eli Zaretsky, Sidecar/New Left Review (12/06/2026) In recent years the concept of attention has garnered considerable – well – attention. It has become, we are told, a commodity within the ‘attention economy’, a limited resource over which advertisers, social … Continue reading →

#Commentary #ArtandRevolution #WalterBenjamin

Autonomies: **Ukrainian artist who died fighting Russians**

https://autonomies.org/2026/06/ukrainian-artist-who-died-fighting-russians/

“True anarchists share their people’s hardest struggles” by Vira Kravchuk (Euromaidan Press, 12/08/2025) Davyd Chychkan, a Ukrainian artist known for his anarchist political views and socially engaged artwork, died 9 August from wounds sustained while repelling a Russian infantry assault … Continue reading →

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Autonomies: **Virgilia D’Andrea: The poet anarchist**

https://autonomies.org/2026/06/virgilia-dandrea-the-poet-anarchist/

We alone are the vehicle for our Idea, and only through our work will it one day become an indispensable part of life.[1] Virgilia D’Andrea Preface to Virgilia D’Adrea’s collection of poetry, Tormenta, by Errico Malatesta Here, dear reader, you … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Poiesis #Anarchism #ArtandRevolution #Italy #VirgiliaDAndrea

Autonomies: **For Sonny Rollins (1930-2026)**

https://autonomies.org/2026/05/for-sonny-rollins-1930-2026/

It’s not about your music—it’s about what makes your music your music. You’ve got to have a feeling like that. You have to have a reason for your music. Have something besides the technical. Make it for something. Make it … Continue reading →

#Poiesis #ArtandRevolution #Jazz #SonnyRollins

Autonomies: **Ben Morea in Exarchia**

https://autonomies.org/2026/05/ben-morea-in-exarchia/

From the CrimethInc. collective (13/05/2026) A Eulogy and Paean to Freedom Ben Morea has passed away. Known for his participation in Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Poiesis #Anarchism #ArtandRevolution #BenMorea #Mutualaid #Revolution

Autonomies: **For José Domínguez Muñoz, “El Cabrero” (1944-2026)**

https://autonomies.org/2026/05/for-jose-dominguez-munoz-el-cabrero-1944-2026/

Flamenco singer José Domínguez, known as El Cabrero, passed away in Seville on Tuesday morning at the age of 81. A charismatic, free-spirited figure, he was admired in the world of flamenco for decades. From childhood and for much of … Continue reading →

#Newsblog #Poiesis #ArtandRevolution #Flamenco #JosDomnguezMuozElCabrero

Autonomies: **For Ben Morea (1940-2026)**

https://autonomies.org/2026/05/for-ben-morea-1940-2026/

For Ben Morea, a eulogy and a collection of interviews. A Life in Rebellion Ariel Uesseler, May 7th, 2026, Ill Will On Saturday May 2, 2026, our friend and comrade Ben Morea (1941-2026) — animist, artist, and lifelong revolutionary — … Continue reading →

#Interview #Poiesis #ArtandRevolution #BenMorea

Autonomies: **Happy birthday, Dario**

https://autonomies.org/2026/03/happy-birthday-dario/

“At the root of everything I write, … is tragedy. One must never forget that Accidental Death involves a man who has been thrown out of a window, and that Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! hinges on a man who is … Continue reading →

#Poiesis #Anarchism #ArtandRevolution #DarioFo

Autonomies: **For Frederick Wiseman (1930 – 2026)**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/for-frederick-wiseman-1930-2026/

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil, Grace and Gravity Frederick Wiseman died this last Monday, February 16, and whatever words we could share to celebrate his work we thought should be his. And as for … Continue reading →

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Autonomies: **For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning**

https://autonomies.org/2026/02/for-philippe-gaulier-1943-2026-the-anarchy-of-clowning/

There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Newsblog #Poiesis #Anarchism #ArtandRevolution #Comedy #France #May68

Autonomies: **For Peter Watkins (1935 – 2025)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/11/for-peter-watkins-1935-2025/

History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]. For Robespierre, Roman antiquity was a past charged with the here-and-now, which he … Continue reading →

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Autonomies: **Howls for Sade (1952)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/howls-for-sade-1952/

The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord Howls for Sade, a feature-length film created in June 1952, contains no images whatsoever. The soundtrack is accompanied by a completely blank white … Continue reading →

#Film #ArtandRevolution #GuyDebord #Situationists

Autonomies: **Guy Debord’s film eye**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/guy-debords-film-eye/

Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →

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Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/giorgio-agamben-difference-and-repetition-on-guy-debords-films-1995/

Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben. My aim here is to define certain aspects of Debord’s poetics, or rather of … Continue reading →

#Commentary #Film #ArtandRevolution #GiorgioAgamben

Autonomies: **In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/in-girum-imus-nocteet-consumimur-igni-1978/

In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading →

#Film #ArtandRevolution #GuyDebord #Situationists

Autonomies: **On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/on-the-passage-of-a-few-persons-through-a-rather-brief-unity-of-time-1959/

The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading →

#Film #ArtandRevolution #GuyDebord #Situationists

Autonomies: **The Society of the Spectacle (1973)**

https://autonomies.org/2025/09/the-society-of-the-spectacle-1973/

In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading →

#Film #ArtandRevolution #GuyDebord #Situationists