Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:18:59 -0800 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 12/28 GUY DEBORD I am waiting for my case to come up & I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder & I am waiting for someone to really discover America — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind Daily Bleed, web page updated & in full, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1228.htm excerpts, DECEMBER 28 -- GUY DEBORD Maitre penseur of the Situationist International, writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular, Too-Late Capitalism. Belgium: HOLY INNOCENTS' DAY. Children play all sorts of tricks on their elders, including stealing their keys & locking them up (sounds like most days). THROW AWAY YOUR SUBLIMINAL MOTIVATION TAPES TODAY DAY. EAT VEGETARIAN DAY. NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY. As most of you know, it's still: NATIONAL INDIGESTION SEASON. 1822 -- Stendhal has his "day of genius," conceiving the idea of writing his philosophical treatise on love: De l'Amour. http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0123b.htm#1783 1863 -- Russia: Nihilists annihilate Chief of Police. 1869 -- US: Knights of Labor hold their first meeting, Philadelphia. 1879 -- US: Long-time Seattle, Washington, labor leader Jimmy Duncan lives. 1883 -- Saint John Ervine, British playwright/novelist, lives, Belfast, Ireland. One of the first to write drama in the style of local realism fostered by the Irish literary renaissance. 1903 -- John Von Neumann mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938), lives. http://www.dccomics.com/mad/ http://www.wiw.org/~drz/tom.lehrer/ 1905 -- Earl "Fatha" Hines, famed jazz pianist, lives. 1914 -- Leon Bonneff dies, Gray (Haute-Saône), France. Proletarian writer. With his brother Maurice brother, wrote La vie tragique des travailleurs (1908), Les métiers qui tuent (1905), Aubervilliers, etc. They publish their investigations of the conditions of the workers & their lives in various newspapers of the left, such as "Guerre Sociale" & "l'Humanité". 1917 -- In a hoax article H. L. Mencken celebrates the anniversary of the advent of the bathtub in America. 1928 -- Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made. http://www.blueflamecafe.com/default.htm 1931 . . . Guy Debord lives, Paris, France. "The world at once present & absent which the spectacle makes visible is the world of the commodity dominating all that is lived. The world of the commodity is thus shown for what it is, because its movement is identical to the estrangement of men among themselves & in relation to their global product." — Guy Debord, La société du spectacle "Je voulais parler la belle langue de mon siècle." http://www.slip.net/~knabb/ http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/ http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/debord.html http://www.nothingness.org/SI/simisc/marshallobit.html 1932 -- Novelist Manuel Puig (Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages; Kiss of the Spider Woman) lives, Argentine Pampas. 1936 -- US: Workers begin sit-down strike against General Motors at Fisher Body plant in Cleveland, Ohio. 1937 -- Maurice Ravel lives. Composer & freelance musician. "I've so much music in my head." --- Maurice Ravel, shortly before his death. 1945 -- American novelist Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925)) dies, Los Angeles. 1945 -- US: Congress officially recognizes "The Pledge of Allegiance". 1950 -- Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea. US Army gets m.a.s.h.e.d. 1968 -- Anti-draft conference launches "Don't Register" campaign, Australia. 1971 -- Vietnam veteran antiwar protesters peacefully end their occupation of the Statue of Liberty. "The statue of Liberty welcomes innumerable pilgrims...while it is announced that the center of the world, which took millennia to shift from the Euphrates to the Thames, is now on the Hudson River. In full imperial euphoria the United States celebrates...but novelist Mark Twain, the old spoilsport, proposes changing the national flag: the white stripes should be black, he says, & the stars should be skulls & crossbones." 1973 -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelago. "One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." 1984 -- Straw That Broke...?: Sam Peckinpah, film director, rides the high country, of cardiac arrest at 59. The spectacle is ideology par excellence, because it exposes & manifests in its fullness the essence of all ideological systems: the impoverishment, servitude & negation of real life. The spectacle is materially "the expression of the separation & estrangement between man & man." Through the "new power of fraud," concentrated at the base of the spectacle in this production, "the new domain of alien beings to whom man is subservient ... grows coextensively with the mass of objects." It is the highest stage of an expansion which has turned need against life. "The need for money is thus the real need produced by political economy, & the only need it produces" (Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts). The spectacle extends to all social life the principle which Hegel (in the Realphilosophie of Jena) conceives as the principle of money: it is "the life of what is dead, moving within itself." — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sotscontents.html ---anti-CopyRite 2000-3000, more or less
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