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Category: Détourné

  • ‘Thoughts on Democracy’ opens tonight

    Please come by to see “Thoughts on Democracy‘ at the Wolfsonian.  I have mentioned the show before.

    The member preview is tonight.  please RSVP.

    MEMBER EVENT
    Thursday, July 3
    6:30-8:30pm


     Join us for a preview to mark the opening of A Bittersweet Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-43 and Thoughts on Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms Posters. Free to all members; guests $10. RSVP required: 305.535.2645 or rsvp@thewolf.fiu.edu.

    my posters

  • The Amen break

    youtube

    A piece about a break beat, its history and its fate in the era copyright(via kirradio)

  • La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?(Can Dialectics Break Bricks?)

    http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_dialectics.html
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    From bopsecrets.org

    “Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you’ll encounter in René Viénet‘s outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet’s target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.”

    ( via The Postmodern Anarchist )