“Our subculture will be Dionysian—sensual, spontaneous, wild—an uncontrollable geyser of raw feeling. The Apollonian (the rational, the intentional, the orderly) will follow the chaotic energy that drives this movement, not precede it. Intellectual proposals can build on adrenaline, lust, violence, and pleasure, but they can’t substitute for them. So nothing sanctimonious, nothing triumphalist or moralistic. Better a gritty romanticism that sees dignity in defeat as well as victory.”
Category Archives: music
introduction to “Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance” (2022)
Posted in anarchism, autonomy, disobedience, fraternity, freedom, music, Nota Bene, performance, power, revolt
Tagged punk
Malin Bång: “splinters of ebullient rebellion”
“We are also seeing many influential institutions, organizations, even governments gradually facing collapse when their actions and manifestations are colliding with the core values of the individuals they are made up by. We see how this friction generates a new spine of idealism with the aim to shift back the focus from simplified, one-dimensional explanations to contexts where the full spectrum of intricate details appear and where the multitude of voices that surround us are present.”
Posted in agonism, music, performance, power, resistance
Julius Gavroche: “Song is a weapon: For José Mário Branco (1942-2019)”
“If his music reflects a particular history which may seem dated to some, his art is a rare example of ethical-political engagement for a world without oppression. Below, we share songs (most with lyrics translated), interviews and a lecture.”
Posted in autonomy, ethics, music, Nota Bene, resistance
Tagged José Mário Branco
“4 Musicians Chart 100 Years in the Life of a Runaway Slave”
‘Hans Werner Henze’s “El Cimarrón” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘
“How the Performance of a French Opera about a Neapolitan Revolt Sparked a Belgian Revolution”
The plot of the fiery libretto of the grand opera The Mute Girl of Portici by the French composer Daniel Auber revolves around the Neapolitan revolts of 1647.
Posted in Blog, music, revolution
Simon Callow: “How Wagner Tried to Revolutionize Art and End Capitalism”
“Persuaded by Röckel’s arguments, he became increasingly radicalized, connecting his idealistic views of the position of art in society with Röckel’s vision of a world where the power of capital was annihilated, and class, position and family prejudices would disappear. In the new order, Röckel assured him, everybody would participate in labor according to their strength and capacity, work would cease to be a burden and would eventually assume a purely artistic character.”
Posted in anarchism, defeat, music, Nota Bene, revolution
Tagged Richard Wagner
Depeche Mode: “Where’s The Revolution”
Depeche Mode: “Where’s The Revolution” from the new album ‘Spirit’ out March 17th, 2017
“You’ve been kept down
You’ve been pushed ’round
You’ve been lied to
You’ve been fed truths
Who’s making your decisions
You or your religion
Your government, your countries
You patriotic junkies
Where’s the revolution
Come on people
You’re letting me down
Where’s the revolution
Come on people
You’re letting me down”
Posted in In The News, music, power, revolution, rights, Uncategorized
