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Did you know that the first action undertaken by the 19th of April Movement (M-19) was the capture of the (alleged) sword that belonged to Simón Bolívar. This action was utilized by M-19 to symbolically announce the start of it’s insurgency in Colombia.

#m-19 #colombia

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Armed anti-regime protesters blocked roads in Pocoata, Chayanta Province and demanded the resignation of Rodrigo Paz, June, 2026.

#bolivia

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Leonor Fini, Figures on a Terrace, 1939

#leonor fini

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Abertura (Glauber Rocha ,1979)

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Jean-Luc Godard and Glauber Rocha playing football.

#glauber rocha #jean-luc godard

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Boris Lipnitzki Danielle Darrieux, Paris 1938

"The stage takes more from your life in three hours of work than one whole day in the film studio. On stage, you are a prisoner, even though it is a lovely prison." Danielle Darrieux

#danielle darrieux

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vremena goda (1975), artavazd peleshian

#artavazd peleshian #mikhail vartanov

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Happy 79th, Laurie Anderson.

#laurie anderson

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Silvestre Revueltas, Homenaje a Federico García Lorca

#silvestre revueltas #federico garcía lorca

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Whisper of the Heart (1995), Yoshifumi Kondō

#yoshifumi kondo #atushi okui #aoi hiiragi #hayao miyazaki

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The disenchantment of the world means first and foremost that our relationship to the world is reduced to causality. But causality is only one kind of relationship. The hegemony of causality leads to a poverty in world and experience. A magical world is one in which things enter into relations with each other that are not ruled by causal connections — relations in which things exchange intimacies. Causality is a mechanical and external relation. Magical and poetic relationships to the world rest on a deep sympathy that connects humans and things. Byung-Chul Han. 2024. The Crisis of Narration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

#byung-chul han

a-quiet-green-agreement

He expected violent disillusion, but his feeling was rather astonishment at the activity of boyish imagination. There was no terror nor amazement now in the green bulwarks, and the stunted undergrowth did not seem in any way extraordinary. Yet he did not laugh at the memory of his sensations, he was not angry at the cheat. Certainly it had been all illusion, all the heats and chills of boyhood, its thoughts of terror were without significance. But he recognised that the illusions of the child only differed from those of the man in that they were more picturesque; belief in fairies and belief in the Stock Exchange as bestowers of happiness were equally vain, but the latter form of faith was ugly as well as inept. It was better, he knew, and wiser, to wish for a fairy coach than to cherish longings for a well-appointed brougham and liveried servants.

– Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams

#arthur machen

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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

Jay Bellerose - drums and percussion

Anna Butterss - acoustic bass

Josh Johnson - alto saxophone with electronics

Jeff Parker - electric guitar with electronics

August 20, 2025

#jeff parker #music

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"How will you do it?" a girl asked.

"Gray magic," he said. "I'm afraid of the black, and I'm too compromised a fellow to attain the white."

– R. A. Lafferty, from “The Man Who Walked Through Cracks,” The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Five: The Man Who Walked Through Cracks (Centipede Press)

#r.a. lafferty