Autonomies: **For Philippe Gaulier (1943–2026): The anarchy of clowning**
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There is no pool … which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others … Henri Bergson, … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **For Peter Watkins (1935 – 2025)**
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History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]. For Robespierre, Roman antiquity was a past charged with the here-and-now, which he … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Howls for Sade (1952)
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The arts of the future can be nothing less than disruptions of situations. Film by Guy Debord Howls for Sade, a feature-length film created in June 1952, contains no images whatsoever. The soundtrack is accompanied by a completely blank white … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Guy Debord’s film eye
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Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)
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Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben. My aim here is to define certain aspects of Debord’s poetics, or rather of … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: In girum imus nocteet consumimur igni (1978)
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In the present film, for example, I am simply stating a few truths over a background of images that are all trivial or false. This film disdains the image-scraps of which it is composed. I do not wish to preserve … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959)
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The appearance of events that we have not created, of events that others have in fact created against us, now obliges us to be aware of the passage of time and its results, to assess the transformation of our own … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: The Society of the Spectacle (1973)
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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation. In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false. … Continue reading →
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