Jindrich Pilecek was born in 1944 in Tabor, and died in Prague in 2002:
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"The avant became the post-avant the minute poets began to think of themselves as part of a broader avant-garde tradition, given that avant-gardism is a fundamentally synchronic move within the arts and tradition is fundamentally diachronic, rendering “avant-garde tradition” an oxymoron of practice."
Ron Silliman on the Avant-Garde
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Oldřich Kulhánek was born on the 26th of February 1940, in Prague:
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Publishing Genius Press has launched a new online journal called Everyday Genius.
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"I imagined that it would become possible to talk about human rights for women and girls without eye rolling, and without having culture, religion, custom, etiquette and centuries invoked."
Aimee Walleston interviews Jenny Holzer
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Tomas Bim was born in Prague on Nov. 12, 1946:
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"What, then, constitutes an intensive reading of Gertrude Stein’s writing? One way of actualizing this question is to examine her work through the concept of the secret."
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Deleuze lecture on Spinoza, translated into English
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Many thanks to my brother for sending me this in addition to the countless other cool things that he sends me that appear here at BSC:
"Pop surrealist, graffiti, tattoo, lowbrow, comic and underground artists Shag, Marc Ecko, Amanda Visell, Tim Biskup, J. Otto Seibold, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Urban Medium and Jeff Soto, among others, show their allegiance to the dark side by customizing Darth Vader helmets" [now showing at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh]:
[you can see all of them here]
