Tag: Umberto Eco

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Suomentanut Siegfried Adlercreutz

English original here

Jos yhteiskunta lakkauttaa kaiken seikkailun, ainoaksi seikkailuksi jää yhteiskunnan lakkauttaminen.

(Situationistien seinäkirjoitus toukokuussa 1968.)

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Graphic by Harold Arthur McNeill

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Finnish translation here

“In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.”

—Situationist graffito, May 1968

As a political ideology, fascism was a mixed bag of 20th-century ideas. Its athletic presence hung with flirty, politically expedient schemes like universal suffrage, in many ways last century’s fascism was defined by its responses to other political movements of the time—like Marxism and liberal capitalism.  (more…)