Status Updates From Cinema

“‘The people’ in this case are the extras in a play they have no hand in writing, playing a role that is in no way their own. They are involved through the unions in rivalry rather than being involved politically in class antagonism. The revisionists expect these ‘people’ to show off their virtues in opposition to the old world so that the new bourgeois political class can rise to power through a coup.”

“…technical excellence is not primary, since it must always be related to the taste governing it.” -Alain Badiou in 1957

Don’t forget that we were often arrested by the police, after all. I don’t want to play the martyr here but I was arrested sixteen times, taken into custody almost as many times, and given a suspended jail sentence of sixteen months. So it wasn’t all just a question of Resistance mythology – we really were arrested, frisked, interrogated.