In 1932, right before the Nazis came to power, Brecht penned a brooding screenplay for a film, Kuhle Wampe, subtitled in English as Who Owns the World? The film follows a young pair of siblings, Franz and Anni, as they ride bicycles around Depression-era Berlin in search of work. Returning to his family’s apartment one day with no prospects, Franz eats, takes off his watch, and jumps out of a… …
A former Metropolitan Indian (member of a situationist-influenced group in Italy) recounts some experiences with the group during the “Years of Lead”: the violent late-1970s. It all began a long time ago but our story leaps the intervening periods and begins in fact in the spring of 1975. It had been a bloody spring. Fascists and police had killed militants belonging to the left. Practically overnight the situation was radicalised.… …
AK Thompson’s newest book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt, is focused on strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work, and don’t, and what they yet may be. AK Press interviews Thompson here on some of the ideas that are central to the book. ________________ AK Press (AKP): Let’s start by having you explain the title of the book, Premonitions. You’ve chosen it in relation to the titles… …
The Commune was the biggest festival of the nineteenth century. Underlying the events of that spring of 1871 one can see the insurgents’ feeling that they had become the masters of their own history, not so much on the level of “governmental” politics as on the level of their everyday life. (Consider, for example, the games everyone played with their weapons: they were in fact playing with power.) It is also in this sense… …
ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ / Void Network presents NIGHTS OF MYSTERIES Fr. 21/12 & Sat. 22/12/2018 2 days psychedelic art festival Ελεύθερο Θέατρο ΕΜΠΡΟΣ Free Self-Organized Theater EMBROS Riga Palamidi 2 – Psiris FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER 2018 Mind Expanding Cinema Night Starts at 20.00 5 Short Experimental Psychedelic Films 1. Chas Wyndham, Airborn, 1968; 3 min. The soundtrack is instrumental psychedelic rock. 2. Jerry Abrams, Eyetoon, 1968; 8 min. The soundtrack… …
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a “street gang with an analysis.” Osha Neumann’s thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the Motherfuckers, who influenced the Yippies and members of SDS; makes vivid the art, music, and politics of the era;… …