Tag Archives: Albert Camus

terrorism: salvational violence

…In the more extreme anarchist circles there gradually developed a sect of what might almost literally be called dynamite worshipers. A song once popular in the ill-lighted, absinthe reeking Montmartre cabarets patronized by Bohemian intellectuals and authentic working-class anarchists expresses … Continue reading

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terrorism: propaganda by deed

The trial and execution of the Will of the People for the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, only intensified the reaction and repression, which in turn aggravated revolutionary violence. But it etched in the Russian mind the romantic image … Continue reading

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terrorism: one fuse at a time

…Though there was an attempt to kill the czar as early as 1866, the first generation of Russian terrorists generally confined their activities to executing traitors or police spies in their own ranks and to reprisals for the tortures, floggings, … Continue reading

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fanon: still finding edge

…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading

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fanon: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first

Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading

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fanon: relegated to second class

Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading

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fanon: fanning the flames of renewal

Theory of violent revolution. Theory of an outsider? Fifty years after his death, Frantz Fanon still has an audience but he had a peculiar role as the scorned prophet…. … The government reply was not long in coming- in the … Continue reading

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return of the sacred

The Gods in art. Andre Malraux in his Metamorphosis of the Gods sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… The return of the Sacred. Byzantium rises in jeweled gloom- the apostle pictured … Continue reading

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imaginary museum

The imaginary museum in which the art of every age is at last brought together and searched for its deepest meaning… Andre Malraux’s great study of “anti-destiny” was titled The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The book, was in a sense, … Continue reading

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to deny our nothingness

The Gods in Art… “The greatest mystery is not that we should be tossed by chance amongst the profusion of matter and the welter of the stars; it is, rather, that within this prison we are able to darw from … Continue reading

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