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# HISTORY /// Official Report on the Question of the so-called New York Commune
Beginning of the transcript… It all started two weeks before the declaration of the Commune. Thousands of us invaded the incomplete structures of the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan. We took...
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# MAPS /// War in the Manhattan Strip
map of the American military apparatuses on and around Manhattan as well as the strike records of the day / Map by Léopold Lambert Two funerals, two faces of Manhattan. The first a display of strength...
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# POLITICS /// Powerless Poor Neighborhoods in Post-Sandy New York City
Red Hook (NYC) on November 18th 2012 /// Photo by Léopold Lambert Right after the hurricane Sandy cut hundreds of thousand New Yorkers out of power, I wrote an article that insisted on the symbolical...
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# NYC COMMUNE PROJECT /// Introduction
Following the narrative I created around the question of the New York Commune as an interesting scenario to investigate what would be a contemporary equivalent of the 1871 Paris Commune, I am now...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// The Democratic Cinematographic Construction of La...
La Commune (de Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins (see also an old article about Punishment Park) filmed in 1999 is the absolute reference for the NY Commune project as it addresses the question of the...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// The 1871 Paris Commune as seen by Karl Marx
Le Cri du Peuple by Jacques Tardi (2001) As I wrote earlier, the 1871 Paris Commune is the historical reference of this series of articles. Despite an institutional soft form of censorship, there has...
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# NY COMMUNE PROJECT /// DMZ by Brian Wood & Riccardo Burchielli
DMZ is a comic book that I discovered in my research for references for the NY Commune Project. It constitutes a quite literal precedent indeed. Written by Brian Wood and drawn by Riccardo Burchielli...
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# NEW YORK COMMUNE PROJECT /// Destruction of Vendôme Column in 1871:...
Photograph by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1871) On May 16th 1871, at the core of the Paris Commune, a ceremony is organized to demolish the Vendôme Column, symbol of the Napoleonian imperialism (as...
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# LIBERTY SQUARE /// The Republic of Taksim
The Republic of Taksim: that is this title that French newspaper Libération chose for its first page today. The title is associated to a picture taken on Taksim square in Istanbul showing the crowd of...
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