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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Archives of May



For the delectation of grammophiliac militants and militant grammophiles, the May Events Archive. Among the gems are facsimiles of Servir le Peuple, the pamphlet of the Union des jeunesses communistes (marxiste-leniniste), SI #11, and some architects enragés.

...the idea of accumulating everything, of establishing a sort of general archive, the will to enclose in one place all times, all epochs, all forms, all tastes, the idea of constituting a place of all times that is itself outside of time and inaccessible to its ravages, the project of organizing in this way a sort of perpetual and indefinite accumulation of time in an immobile place, this whole idea belongs to our modernity...

posted by Savonarola at 3:59 AM

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