As someone who lived across the way from Miller in Clichy, I do understand nostalgia for that heyday
I find your description of the ills and your suggested cure dispiritingly personal/individual, and resolutely comfortable middle class, in line with the bohemia which survived by facile rejection of the very structures of society and indus…
As someone who lived across the way from Miller in Clichy, I do understand nostalgia for that heyday
I find your description of the ills and your suggested cure dispiritingly personal/individual, and resolutely comfortable middle class, in line with the bohemia which survived by facile rejection of the very structures of society and industry which made non conformism so acceptably comforting and comfortable when compared to the condition of the working class, let alone the bidonvilles
The solution, as always, is the collective: consciousness and action
You may despair that there is no longer, in an age of advanced atomism, any hope of the collective, that the notion no longer serves any purpose
As someone who lived across the way from Miller in Clichy, I do understand nostalgia for that heyday
I find your description of the ills and your suggested cure dispiritingly personal/individual, and resolutely comfortable middle class, in line with the bohemia which survived by facile rejection of the very structures of society and industry which made non conformism so acceptably comforting and comfortable when compared to the condition of the working class, let alone the bidonvilles
The solution, as always, is the collective: consciousness and action
You may despair that there is no longer, in an age of advanced atomism, any hope of the collective, that the notion no longer serves any purpose