Archives du dimanche 07 août 2005
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Net presence as fake radicality
Petit-bourgeois url clicking
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"I think that a radical life is not something that depends on Internet connections or websites or demos or even on politics, like having Green mayors. This may sound dull to people who think that having a really hot website is a revolutionary act. Or that getting a million people to come out and wave symbolic signs at ...[Read More]
Joan of Arc’s immodesty : the mystics of trousers
Bloomers and blooming feminism
The very first dress reformers were the female political idealists of the French Revolution.
In the early Victorian era, the American Mrs. Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) caused quite a stir when she tried to promote the idea of women abandoning their petticoats for a bi-furcated garment later known as the bloomer fashion.
The various "bifurcated" undergarments known ...[Read More]
Maldoror
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Au clair de la lune, près de la mer, dans les endroits
isolés de la campagne, l'on voit, plongé dans d'amères
réflexions, toutes les choses revêtir des formes jaunes,
indécises, fantastiques. L'ombre des arbres, tantôt vite,
tantôt lentement, court, vient, revient, par diverses formes,
en s'aplatissant, en se collant contre la terre. Dans le
temps, lorsque j'étais emporté sur les ailes ...[Read More]
