memento vivere
à Paris. belle époque glistens in the rain, coral-color; terrace gardens dripping on my sweater-sleeves. the avenue is puddle and froth churned by taxi tires, squeezed by sodden mist. a gendarme’s dopplered siren whines with the gargle of a gutter and i spill the sugar as i
HELLO! the revolutionary symbiosis of action/thought, visceral/cerebral, brutality/sentiment, rhetoric/rationale in the characters of Lafayette and Talleyrand. revolution awaits!
The subtle beginnings of revolution are often ignored in favor of its dramatized offspring. As a result, misconceptions plague the origins of such crises. What may later become overt violence first bubbles up in salon discourse and guild halls. In both psychosomatic and economic terms, revolution is (rather unfashionably) a
The defining feature of our time is precarity. We live in persistent uncertainty. The present fails to serve as connective tissue between pasts and potential futures. It is jarring because all we’ve been told is the inevitability of progress, of modernity. The economy will always grow; science will always
Medieval squalor must have been made much, much worse if you happened to live in the shadow of a Roman aqueduct. Yes, we have plenty today who live in impoverished misery in view of gentrified downtowns, but I’m talking about something different. Imagine that no one alive can reproduce
