Friday, April 28, 2006

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....

Thursday, April 13, 2006

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....