- Everybodyism – see footnote 1.
New Poetics/from the Re-vaults of almost forgotten heroes
Nobody finishes everything – here are some that won’t get done soon… I guess belonging to the genre of short form essay plans and haikus that will bug most people
Motivation seems impossible implausible even. Need to see how to build research as resistance as well as the pleasure of reading Marx. Spivak, Adorno, Aragon, Ahmed, Schlegel.
Publishing and Pamphlets, zines, manifestos
175 years since the hitherto struggles of the class war
- Engels + Horner
- Marx + Mrs Kugelman
- Rose + Theo
Latter-day manifestos
- Nancy Cunard, Louis Aragon
- Marguerite Duras + Georges Bataille
- Jane Fonda, Jen-Luc Godard
These are just plans to structure the work needed
- to shift from a mantra of class struggle to media intervention without loss
- to show its not enough just to study of watch, yet that is necessary
- that ongoing project of revolt.
Motivation as implausible aspiration on an off day
Even the pleasures of reading are made vocational , monetised by ghouls.
The admiration of others descending into a quagmire of doubt, even through effort to list and convey why it might be necessary
Manifestos of old renewals of the class war for digital times, in a metre that seems obscure
Retrospects of intellectual romanticism of lists – Fred and Leonard, Karl and Gertrude, Rosa and Theo, Nancy and Louis, Marguerite and Georges, Jane and Jean-Luc. These are just poses to substitute longing for desire, to structure laziness as forward movement, indulgent late-night page-turning pot-boilers seeking a higher calling.
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- Everybodyism – proposal for an art movement in which every person is an artist and everyone will be famous for 16 minutes, for which Spotify will pay a living wage. Everyone will live in as garret featured on the Grand Designs TV show. Kevin?
Trinketization 