Thursday, December 2, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass panels, 277.5 × 177.8 × 8.6 cm © Estate of Marcel Duchamp (Philadelphia Museum of Art). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Saturday, May 1, 2021
May '68. Video.
May ‘68. Debate.
Students make comparisons: poor suburbs.
The university is unable to affect society.
Looking for a radical change in society.
Protesters are not touched (they are rich, white,
and French: they are not Algerians).
A European movement against capitalism.
Bourgeois dictatorship: Vive le socialisme!
An anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement.
All the leftists united: Trotskyists, Maoists, Situationists,
Anarchists.
The government does not employ full military force.
May 13, 1968: Workers respond massively.
Oblique confrontation.
Students reject expertise and hierarchy.
Everything is put into question.
A new civilization.
A movement of the intelligentsia.
No Robespierre, no Trotsky. Just a happening.
An open-ended paralysis.
Putting revolution into question.
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