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Bebe, CB editions. Read it and plotz. https://www.cbeditions.com/George.html Bios of Salvador Dali & Miles Davis. Out of print. But of course. After all, there is nothing but failure. -- Thomas Bernhard
“I want a formally perfect film”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was murdered shortly before this article was published, spoke to S&S when we visited the set of the film in Mantua. He explained why being misunderstood was an intrinsic part of the work
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
“Epic theater does not develop action but mirrors reality by making it strange (Verfremdung). Brecht’s theatrical images and captions, on the other hand, aim at ‘exorcizing their sensationalism.’”
Worthwhile reading on Bertolt #Brecht as a visual artist.
#collage #epictheater #eflux #bertoltbrecht
fragments from Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Diaries just came out on e-flux film notes! translated by Michael Kunichika, with a brief intro by Michael and me.
www.e-flux.com/notes/648016...
extra plus.
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An old cigarette case.
Today, in 1921, Schönberg conducted his monumental Gurre-Lieder at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. The concert was repeated the following day. The choir members presented him with a cigarette case as a memento of the great experience.
19.03.2024 09:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A wooden box with colored tokens that are made of plastic and and wooden rectangular discs. Next to it there are two dice with yellow and red dots.
Today is National Dice Day in the USA. Arnold Schönberg made this game for his children. The tokens are made of plastic, while the dice and rectangular discs were made of wood, paper and colour by the composer.
04.12.2023 10:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's #InternationalWorldListeningDay! You might like to listen to the latest addition to our audio database: Schoenberg's arrangement of a Concerto Grosso by G. F. Händel, conducted by Otto Klemperer. Or just admire Schoenberg's self-made record cover. bit.ly/Rec170-172
18.07.2024 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Continuing with the #Poland theme
Różewicz presents a haunting testament to survival amplified by the juxtaposition of opposites.
That these can co-exist in a person.
What sometimes needs to be done to survive.
Life continues, but every breath carries memory.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
"There are not two Germanys, a good one and a bad one," Thomas Mann wrote in 1946, "but only one, whose best turned into evil through devilish cunning." #FallofFreedom
21.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white still of four people emerging from the sparse remains of a bombed out building.
A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
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Read our excerpt from "You Must Take Part in Revolution" by Melissa Chan and Badiucao: chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/20/r...
21.11.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ned Denny after Verlaine November Dusk Autumn and the departing sun, and I am wild with joy! Corpse hues drenched in blood, a five-alarm sky, death possessing a world of mud, torpid ponds, and man the sick child! This is, poet, your hour and your season, all illusions gone, your heart laid bare, that tender heart which the rats' feet of passion tear, your looking-glass, your festival! Let academics, dupes, and noted authors fawn over the springtime and the dawn, those two foxy virgins even costlier than their frocks; I choose you, autumn, prefer your dark grace to any little darling's face, you my implacable and strange-eyed courtesan.
Early start interpreting at the eye hospital. Reading Ned Denny’s envigorating versions in @pnreview.bsky.social while two old chaps discuss how ‘brown bread turns you out nicely. Surprisingly quickly actually.’
21.11.2025 08:41 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Today is #WorldPhilosophyDay, and we’re re-sharing this essay from the archive which explores how, according to philosopher Margaret Macdonald, ‘philosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.’
20.11.2025 22:45 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
We live in a world inundated by images of atrocity. What might these pictures reveal about the perpetrators of violence? Hisham Matar reflects on this question with help from Ovid and Titian. www.equator.org/articles/pit...
20.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yuri Slezkine on the enduing affects of boyhood reading “I applied to join the Soviet merchant marine in Mozambique because I had read Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas. I had read Os Lusíadas because a biography of Vasco da Gama had impressed me as a boy.”
16.11.2025 18:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Continuing with the #Poland theme
We have all been here in this poetry reading. Nights when there were more readers than people in the audience.
'half are here because it’s raining, the rest are relatives’.
The ‘Poetry Reading’ by Wisława Szymborska
#poetry
#poemoftheday
London launch, 16 December. Tickets free, copies thrown in, RSVP essential
20.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of author next to poster of Billy Bob Thornton
Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
20.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
“No single disc’s worth of songs can claim to capture the many inflections of the Texas sound.”
—From the archive, Rick Clark compiles a list of 25 tracks containing notes of the American experience and the Texas borderlands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4UPf
My morning commute read. Incredibly moving.
“We close the book, the performance ends, but history keeps on.”
Join English PEN’s letter-writing campaign for Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025: send a message of hope and solidarity to an imprisoned writer.
To mark Day of the #ImprisonedWriter today, send a message of solidarity through our letter-writing campaign, #PENWrites, and join indie bookshops across the UK who are taking part.
💌 Write a letter of hope: www.englishpen.org/campaigns/pe...
“Mess with Willie Nelson and the next thing you’ll see is the wrong end of a gun held by the Devil himself, Robert Paul English.”
—From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl
“I cannot help but wonder what stories are not written today—not for a lack of a willing author, but due to an imperiled free press.”
—Lauren Stroh details “The Angolite,” the prison news magazine produced within Louisiana’s State Penitentiary.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/QqC9U
“I treated each person with an equal measure of respect and dignity, a photographic utopia.”
—Arkansas-based photographer Andrew Kilgore is profiled by @jbesonen.bsky.social as he shares the backstories behind 1970s photographs of Fayetteville and the Ozarks.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/Vhbqj
Tykes on Bikes
Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk, Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough."
Documented by American sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine
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'Weil reminds us that real evil, unlike its scripted counterpart, is stupid and predictable.'
A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone: Simone Weil’s ethical life class
‘I think young writers starting out in India now might not feel what I felt, which is that I couldn’t actually start out there.’
Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.
granta.com/reclaiming-t...
“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.”
McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
