#kerouac — Public Fediverse posts
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"in 1926, a group of highway officials named the brand-new Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway" and a legend was born!
Springfield: The beloved birthplace of #Route66 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260428-springfield-the-beloved-birthplace-of-route-66
#history #travel #centennial #carculture #Steinbeck #GetYourKicks #Kerouac
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"in 1926, a group of highway officials named the brand-new Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway" and a legend was born!
Springfield: The beloved birthplace of #Route66 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260428-springfield-the-beloved-birthplace-of-route-66
#history #travel #centennial #carculture #Steinbeck #GetYourKicks #Kerouac
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📚 Behold! Yet another nostalgic ode to an editor who supposedly "built" a literary utopia while casually ignoring the sea of #mediocrity 🌊. Apparently, just by championing #Kerouac et al., he single-handedly transformed the #publishing world in his spare time ⏰.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters #nostalgia #literaryutopia #HackerNews #ngated -
📚 Behold! Yet another nostalgic ode to an editor who supposedly "built" a literary utopia while casually ignoring the sea of #mediocrity 🌊. Apparently, just by championing #Kerouac et al., he single-handedly transformed the #publishing world in his spare time ⏰.
https://newrepublic.com/article/205583/editor-helped-build-golden-age-american-letters #nostalgia #literaryutopia #HackerNews #ngated -
12 de março é o dia! Daqui a 40 dias, a missão é celebrar em dobro: é meu niver e, de quebra, o do Jack Kerouac. 🎂📖
A celebração oficial já tem nome: Bolinho Trans Lumbrante. Porque se vai ter uma data compartilhada com um ícone da contracultura, que a festa seja à altura - brilhante, livre e cheia de estilo. Preparem-se! ✨
#TransLumbrante #Festa #Niver #Kerouac #Bolinho -
12 de março é o dia! Daqui a 40 dias, a missão é celebrar em dobro: é meu niver e, de quebra, o do Jack Kerouac. 🎂📖
A celebração oficial já tem nome: Bolinho Trans Lumbrante. Porque se vai ter uma data compartilhada com um ícone da contracultura, que a festa seja à altura - brilhante, livre e cheia de estilo. Preparem-se! ✨
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The Merry Pranksters footage in a wild documentary. #Kerouac #KenKesey #NeilCassedy #StarkNaked #AlanGinsberg #LSD
If you’ve read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test then this will all be familiar. The 16mm 60s colour stock film is so rich in the 1964 sun and looks great. The 1960s start here etc.
They’re all very privileged in a way, looking back from today, but they’re also pioneers of the frontiers of weird.
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The Merry Pranksters footage in a wild documentary. #Kerouac #KenKesey #NeilCassedy #StarkNaked #AlanGinsberg #LSD
If you’ve read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test then this will all be familiar. The 16mm 60s colour stock film is so rich in the 1964 sun and looks great. The 1960s start here etc.
They’re all very privileged in a way, looking back from today, but they’re also pioneers of the frontiers of weird.
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All due respect, I would love to see this movie and hear Michael Imperioli read #Kerouac.
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Remember Walt Whitman
Heute in der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung - 31. Mai 1819: Der Dichter Walt Whitman wurde geboren. Whitman brachte 1855 seinen ersten und berühmtesten Gedichtband, Leaves of Grass, auf eigene Kosten raus. Er wurde wegen seiner Sinnlichkeit als obszön kritisiert. Während des Bürgerkriegs meldete er sich freiwillig in #Krankenhäusern, um Verwundete zu pflegen. Viele glauben aufgrund seiner Schriften, dass Whitman schwul oder bisexuell war, obwohl dies von einigen Historikern bestritten wird. Oscar# Wilde traf Whitman 1882 in den Vereinigten Staaten und sagte dem Aktivisten für #Homosexuellenrechte George Cecil #Ives, dass Whitmans sexuelle Orientierung außer Frage stehe: „Ich habe noch immer den Kuss von Walt Whitman auf meinen Lippen.“ Whitman wird von vielen als Amerikas erster und größter #ichter angesehen. Er inspirierte viele, die nach ihm kamen, darunter Ezra #Pound, Langston #Hughes, #Kerouac, #Ginsberg, F#erlinghetti, Gary #Snyder und June #Jordan.
Whitmans Engagement für #Solidarität inspirierte viele #Linke der späten 1800er und frühen 1900er Jahre, darunter Emma #Goldman und die #WW, die Kopien von Whitmans Gedichten in Form des Little Blue Book an ihre Mitglieder verteilte. Bartolomeo #Vanzetti, Elizabeth Gurley #Flynn und Ralph #Chaplin bezeichneten Whitman ebenfalls als ihre #Inspiration. Er inspirierte auch den kubanischen Dichter und Revolutionär José #Martí sowie Pablo #Neruda und Jorge Luis #Borges.
Via: trueten.de
Quelle: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114603241424442651 @MikeDunnAuthor #Literatur #Anarchismus #LBTQIA
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JACK KEROUAC & STEVE ALLEN
Poetry For The Beat Generation
2023 U.S. Ltd. Ed. Reissue
Milky Clear #vinylWhat turned me into the Kerouac freak I am today was THIS record. When I was young, probably 6 or 7, we used to get records from the library.
I never knew what I was grabbing half the time, mostly choosing based on the cover.
This was from one of those visits.
Opened up a whole new beautiful odd language for me, one I was too young to understand.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #art #poetry #kerouac -
JACK KEROUAC & STEVE ALLEN
Poetry For The Beat Generation
2023 U.S. Ltd. Ed. Reissue
Milky Clear #vinylWhat turned me into the Kerouac freak I am today was THIS record. When I was young, probably 6 or 7, we used to get records from the library.
I never knew what I was grabbing half the time, mostly choosing based on the cover.
This was from one of those visits.
Opened up a whole new beautiful odd language for me, one I was too young to understand.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #art #poetry #kerouac -
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine -
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine -
BOOK REVIEW: Alana Lee, a neglected Beat poet better known for her relationship with Jack Kerouac than her own writing, acquires an expansively magical life of her own. THE DAY & NIGHT BOOKS OF MARDOU FOX, by Nisi Shawl, reviewed by @nmamatas.
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Bread, cheese, sardines, and wine would be the most appropriate lunch to pack if you're a Jack Kerouac fan jumping on the train in Camarillo 😉 #kerouac #train #camarillo
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Bread, cheese, sardines, and wine would be the most appropriate lunch to pack if you're a Jack Kerouac fan jumping on the train in Camarillo 😉 #kerouac #train #camarillo
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Ich find das immer schwierig, ein Werk nach seinem Autor zu beurteilen (und anders herum), gerade bei denen, die ich mag - ich mein, klar, Netflix hat jetzt reagiert (nehme ich an)
Und es gibt wahrscheinlich viele #Autoren, die irgendwie "Dreck am Stecken" haben. Ich möchte nicht wissen, was jemand wie #Kerouac oder #Bukowski so getrieben haben, oder #HenryMiller (aber die sind schon tot).
Vielleicht sollte ich eine "Bannstrafe" verhängen. 3 Jahre kein Gaiman?
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I can't stay away from the SWAG bookshop downtown... I had previously read the Dharma Bums and it was fine. Honestly, for an unhinged Buddhist-Beat travelog, I'd rather read Gary Snyder. But, Kerouac's poetry is a whole different beast. It's really good. If you haven't read Scattered Poems, it's worth digging up a copy. #poetry #beatniks #buddhism #kerouac #books
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I can't stay away from the SWAG bookshop downtown... I had previously read the Dharma Bums and it was fine. Honestly, for an unhinged Buddhist-Beat travelog, I'd rather read Gary Snyder. But, Kerouac's poetry is a whole different beast. It's really good. If you haven't read Scattered Poems, it's worth digging up a copy. #poetry #beatniks #buddhism #kerouac #books
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#Kerouac sent one such letter to his first wife, Edie Kerouac Parker, in late January of 1957, a decade after their marriage had been annulled. Found in The Portable Jack Kerouac (public library) — an altogether terrific treasure trove of his stories, poems, letters, and essays on Buddhism — the missive is nothing short of exquisite.
A magnificent cinematic adaptation here: https://vimeo.com/60827020
The letter here: https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/112695555752974069
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Should have put a #kerouac hashtag in there too. Oh well.
This one spurred a household discussion about frosty childhood mornings in Wanganui, but really, the long-ago I had in mind was Reservoir and Richmond in the late 80's, when I spent several years working as a postie to keep a roof between me and the cold, dank night.
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Should have put a #kerouac hashtag in there too. Oh well.
This one spurred a household discussion about frosty childhood mornings in Wanganui, but really, the long-ago I had in mind was Reservoir and Richmond in the late 80's, when I spent several years working as a postie to keep a roof between me and the cold, dank night.
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Jack Kerouac's reminiscence of Christmas:
“In the general uproar of gifts and unwinding of wrappers it was always a delight to me to step out on the porch or even go up the street a ways at 1:00 in the morning and listen to the silent hum of heaven diamond stars, watch the red and green windows of homes, consider the trees that seemed frozen in sudden devotion, and think over the events of another year passed."
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@stevesilberman, author of the brilliant #NeuroTribes, has a list of book recommendations (everything from #books about #autism to the #GratefulDead to #Kerouac and the #Beats -- pretty much covers the bases!), and I'm so honored to see that the book I wrote with #neurologist Bruce Miller of #UCSF, is on it. Bruce & I wrote this dual #memoir so I could share my #grief about my father's #early-onset Alzheimer's and Bruce could share his knowledge about the #brain. #EndAlz https://www.readthistwice.com/person/steve-silberman
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So that’s de Sade & #Kerouac ‘s On the Road that were written on a continuous manuscript roll like that… might need to track down others… I would guess plenty in 18th C etc but any others in Modern times?
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#Poet Gary Snyder, "Japhy Ryder" in #Kerouac's "Dharma Bums," was born OTD in 1930 and is still with us. One of the most amazing things he ever did is virtually unknown: Helping inspire #DanielEllsberg to leak the #PentagonPapers, which helped end the #VietnamWar. From #Beat scholar Randy Roark.
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Today is Jack Kerouac’s 101st birthday.
Below is a video I made several years ago. Audio is Kerouac reading the final paragraph of his book On the Road on the Steve Allen Show, with Allen on piano. Video is out the window of my old VW Vanagon and a dreamy PNW sunset.
#JackKerouac #Kerouac #OnTheRoad #OTD #BeatGeneration #birthday #video -
I sogni, le paure e la voglia di evasione dei ragazzi della “gioventù bruciata”
Kerouac e la Beat Generation
Parlare di Kerouac significa parlare di un revival estetico, di un nuovo stile di vita, di un modello alternativo agli standard della vita sedentaria, quasi un ritorno al nomadismo1. Però se si parla di Kerouac e de
