ANARCHY ART ANIMISM
With the need to find a place where art, politics and sciences can coexist as an integral part of life, Ben Morea's positions and Black Mask’s concept of organization as a magazine and group becomes a useful tool. Black Mask was driven by the intention for an organic consciousness and involved the participation of all types of people into a free flow of poets, artists and political activists, pursuing a new complementary and revolutionary way of thinking beyond philosophical, cultural and political apparatuses rooted in materialism and humanism, the primacy of rationalism and the ideological placement of human at the centre of the world, promoting privilege, hierarchy and domination, setting human beings at odds with each other and with the world. Revolutionary Animism seeks solutions beyond the paradigm that evolved inequality, coercion, and the dynamics of a delirious and individualist growth. Often dismissed as archaic and regressive, the animistic worldview —everything in existence is imbued with consciousness— is neither lost to history nor nostalgic; it is a way of being that acknowledges the creative principle of being in the world, the thread which weaves all things together, from the beginning to this very moment, like a web of creative antitheses.The recording is four hours and forty-two minutes, to download click here.
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Tuesday, April 26th 2016, 7pm
HISTORICAL POLITICAL REVIEW
Τhe action of Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers (U.A.W.M.F.) in the 1960s, from the street committee for neighbourhood patrols in the Lower East Side to the antiwar intervention at the Pentagon in 1967; the relationship of U.A.W.M.F. with groups such as the Weathermen, King Mob and Dutch Provos; the wider political context and the position of anarchists in the US and internationally, such as the revolution in Cuba, the Vietnam War and the Chicano movement; the present political moment.The recording is four hours and thirteen minutes, to download click here.
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