Baudelairiana - Black and Red

Black and Red should always frame a woman’s face, for it represents an underlying excess bound by a sombre relief. A black frame deepens the gaze, hollows out le regard to a fixed light, and tends to accentuate a more singular deeper look…

Red and Black enflames the pupils, and clarifies a face to the warm beauty of a dark blue cube gyrating in the nightlight of a higher dimension….

That night he loved a body like a material harmony caught within a moving architecture…

Any absolute black materialism is not far removed from the whitest spirituality….

If beauty is black, red is love, then one may need two elements: line and attraction - along the black line of beauty attracted by the overflowing redness of love…

She danced all night it, her skirt a transparently gazing into the night-dome of the sky above…

Vast like the night, geometrically precise as the shades clarity…

Black and Red....

In Praise of the Lumpenproletariat

Marx's “The Eighteenth Bru­maire" description of the Lumpenproletariat of Paris:

“Alongside decayed roués with dubious means of subsistence and of dubious origin, along­side ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie, were vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaus, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ­grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars-in short, the whole indefinite, dis­integrated mass, thrown hither and thither, which the French term la bohème”

Who are the Lumpen of our hyper-capital age? We are all lumpen now....