#trocchi

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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.

Alexander Trocchi

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Project Sigma : A Tactical Blueprint - SoundCloud

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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake...

Alexander Trocchi

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Jeff Nuttall published the manuscript from his course in the one and only magazine published by the Antiuniversity of London during spring 1968. Here The Importance of Difficulty from his lecture on Saturday March 16 1968. Jeff Nuttall (1933 –  2004) was a poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor,  jazz trumpeter, and a central collaborator with Alex Trochhi on Project Sigma. In 1968 his published Bomb Culture, an inside account of Counter Culture in London from early 1960s onwards. 

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Meu Caro Amigo Chico Buarque #Trocchi

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Sviluppai presto un orrore per tutte le forme di associazione, in particolare quelle che senza ulteriore fatica si arrogavano il diritto di riassumere tutti i miei atti sotto certe designazioni normative in base alle quali mi avrebbero punito o ricompensato. Non riuscivo a provare alcuna fedeltà per una cosa così astratta come uno Stato o così simbolica come un sovrano. E non potevo provare altro che disprezzo per un sistema in cui, in virtu' del nome e della condizione di mio padre, mi trovavo fin da principio così clamorosamente sottoprivilegiato. Col crescere, cio' che mi fece maggiore impressione non fu il fatto che le cose erano come erano, e con un tendenza a pietrificarsi, ma che gli altri avessero l'impertinenza di supporre che mi sarei astenuto dal reagire violentemente nei loro confronti.

Alexander Trocchi - Il libro di caino

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Alexander Trocchi, Cain's Film

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Sigma meeting at Braziers Park 1964

In the text 'Sigma: a Tactical Blueprint' probably written in 1963 and published in the US City Lights Journal #2 in 1964 Alexander Trocchi outlines his vision of the Project Sigma based on a network of Sigma centres. The text was a follow up to 'A Revolutionary Proposal: Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds' published in the Scottish journal New Saltire in 1962 and subsequently in Internationale Situationniste #8 in January 1963. Here Trocchi calls for the founding of spontaneous universities inspired by among others Poul Goodman's ideas of the university described in 'The Community of Scholars' (1962) and the practical experiences from the Black Mountain College.

"How to begin? At a chosen moment in a vacant country house (mill, abbey, church or castle) not too far from the City of London, we shall foment a kind of cultural "jam session": out of this will evolve the prototype of our spontaneous university.

The original building will stand deep within its own grounds, preferably on a river bank. It should be large enough for a pilot group (astronauts of inner space) to situate itself, orgasm and genius, and their tools and dream-machines and amazing apparatus and appurtenances; with outhouses for "workshops" large as could accommodate light industry; the entire site to allow for spontaneous architecture and eventual town planning." ('A Revolutionary Proposal: Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds', Alexander Trocchi, 1963)

In July 1964 Alexander Trocchi invited members of the London counter-cultural milieu to meet members of the Philadelphia Association linked to anti-psychiatry. Amongst the attendees at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire that July where Tom McGrath, R.D. Laing, David Cooper, John Latham, Bob Cobbing, Aaron Esterson, Clancy Segal, Jeff Nuttall, Beba Larvin, Lyn Trocchi, Graham Howe and Joe Turner.  They met to share ideas on how to set up a Sigma Centre/spontaneous university. The weekend was chaotic and reported to have been disrupted by Trocchi’s drug addiction and heavy drinking sessions. It was not a success. But it was one of the first attempts at organising a counter cultural university.