Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 08:12:17 -0700 From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/18 SERGE GAINSBOURG Daily Bleed web page in full, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0818.htm excerpts, AUGUST 18 -- SERGE GAINSBOURG French pop composer of existential malaise, angst, love. Wales: Ancient Bardic TUORNEY OF DRUIDS. Group singing, processions, musical & literary competitions, awarding of bardic degrees. 1591 -- New World: The Governor of the Roanoke Island colony returns from England. The colony is no longer here, only an empty fort & the word "Croatan". http://www.autonomedia.org/goneto.htm http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/ 1634 -- Burning of Urbain Grandier for witchcraft. http://www.burningman.com/ 1782 -- William Blake, 24, marries Catherine Sophia Boucher, an illiterate whom he teaches to share his love of literature. See the Daily Bleed Saints Gallery page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/StBlakeWilliam.htm 1812 -- Lady Ludd "leads" Corn Market riot of women & boys, Leeds, England. http://www.bigeastern.com/ludd/nl_whats.htm 1823 -- Slaves in Demerara use the licence to travel on an official rest day (for the purposes of churchgoing) to launch an uprising of over 30,000 1850 -- While his wife of five months waits indifferently for the end, Honore de Balzac dies in Paris at 51 regretting that his own character, Dr. Biachon of La Comedie Humaine, is not there to save him. 1893 -- The day after a riot of the unemployed, Emma Goldman addresses a public meeting, urging those in need to take bread if they are hungry. 1922 -- Novelist/filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet lives, Brest. Wrote The Erasers, The Voyeur, Jealousy, Project for a Revolution in New York. 1925 -- Arkady Strugatski lives. Russian author, who collaborated with his brother Boris Strugatsky & published acclaimed science fiction novels. 1949 -- 1500 striking lumberjacks fight a pitched battle against police & troops, northern Finland. 1958 -- Vladimir Nabokov's highly publicized Lolita is published in the US. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ 1966 -- China: "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" begins, as Red Guards summoned are by head honcho, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mao Tse-Tung, to Peking. 1,000,000 arrive in para-military fashion to hear Lin Piao explain the big character poster, "Bombard the Headquarters". So what's to explain? http://mcel.pacificu.edu/MCEL/Barlow/Sp99/H316/GAMES.HTML 1977 -- Steve Biko, a leading student apartheid resister, arrested, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Later murdered while in custody. "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." — Steve Biko http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/ 1985 -- In Lyons, the ROP print shop for Parisian daily papers is wrecked, in revenge for their lies & hostility towards the prison mutineers. 1987 Zimbabwe novelist/dramatist Dambudzo Marechera, dies in Harare. Critical acclaim came with his collection of stories The House of Hunger. Growing up in poverty, he reacted by adopting an increasingly self-destructive lifestyle, was expelled from both the University of Rhodesia & New College, Oxford. Wrote The House of Hunger, a powerful account of life in his country under white rule. 1996 -- 'The US prison population rises to nearly 1.6 million inmates in 1995, double the number of a decade ago, the Justice Department said.' (Reuters, Washington, DC). The US, by 1999, has the largest per capita prison population in the world, along with Russia. 1997 -- First use of the term, Daily Bleed, coined by the Good Doktor Dan, occurs 8/18/1997, on the BiblioManiac email subscription list. Book forum where some fool periodically sends off-topic mail about books. On September 21, BleedMeister begins ripping off his copyRite, serving up uselessly recycled sludge on a daily-like basis in an effort to slow-torture the said Doktor (& his minions), who insists, like all good medical practitioners worth their saltlicks, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/images/abes2.gif 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-MovingDead 2001
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