This is a Symphony

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What shall we do, when public art becomes so vulgarly Marketable,

 

So Progressive, so Modern, so Global?

 

Set it on fire, and in doing so, create the next avant-garde:

 

The flaming wicks of Molotov cocktails will be our paintbrushes,

 

Terrifying sirens and megaphones will be our orchestras, we’ll scribe

 

New howling forms of poetry with every strike of a baton while the

 

Popping report of riot gas canisters punctuate our stanzas.

 

This is a symphony. – Rayan Castle

 

This is the point of no return – the cut – through which the before and after are forever incommensurable.

 

This is the return of beauty, the return of joy, the return of autonomia – the return of a freedom to create forms of existence that escape any attempts of capture.

 

The Revolution will be a Festival. Coming 2018.

Can’t Get There From Here (2010 Digital Remaster)

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Ph.D. in Anthropology from City University of New York Graduate Center (2011); M.A. in African-American and African Studies from The Ohio State University (2000); B.S. in Communications from Florida State University (1993). Published academic author. Research Interests include Race, Culture, and Racism in American and Italy; Liberalism and Global Capitalism; Classical History and Counter-Modern Ethics; American Hardcore Music and Ethics; Skinhead Culture; Traditionalism; The European New Right and Political Philosophy; Counter-Enlightenment Thought and the Morality of Truth; Sport and Ethics of Violence; Jazz, Black Power, and Bourgeois Liberation.