The Merry Pranksters footage in a wild documentary. #Kerouac #KenKesey #NeilCassedy #StarkNaked #AlanGinsberg #LSD
If you’ve read The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test then this will all be familiar. The 16mm 60s colour stock film is so rich in the 1964 sun and looks great. The 1960s start here etc.
They’re all very privileged in a way, looking back from today, but they’re also pioneers of the frontiers of weird.
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📚 This Day in History – Sept 5, 1957
On the Road was published today.
Kerouac’s myth hit the page.
Here’s mine.
on the road again
just can’t wait
to get on the road again—
the life i love
is making beat books
with my friends
and i just can’t wait
to get on the road
#OnThisDay #OnTheRoad #Kerouac #BeatPoetry #LLMPoetry #Eshu #SpontaneousProse #AmericanLiterature
"Ambitious in its attempts to stitch Jack Kerouac’s biography through a patchwork exploration of both cultural and social modern America as related to his seminal book On The Road." - we take a look at https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/kerouacs-road-the-beat-of-a-nation-2025-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson #FilmSky🎬#Kerouac #OnTheRoad
All due respect, I would love to see this movie and hear Michael Imperioli read #Kerouac.
Remember Walt Whitman
Heute in der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung - 31. Mai 1819: Der Dichter Walt Whitman wurde geboren. Whitman brachte 1855 seinen ersten und berühmtesten Gedichtband, Leaves of Grass, auf eigene Kosten raus. Er wurde wegen seiner Sinnlichkeit als obszön kritisiert. Während des Bürgerkriegs meldete er sich freiwillig in #Krankenhäusern, um Verwundete zu pflegen. Viele glauben aufgrund seiner Schriften, dass Whitman schwul oder bisexuell war, obwohl dies von einigen Historikern bestritten wird. Oscar# Wilde traf Whitman 1882 in den Vereinigten Staaten und sagte dem Aktivisten für #Homosexuellenrechte George Cecil #Ives, dass Whitmans sexuelle Orientierung außer Frage stehe: „Ich habe noch immer den Kuss von Walt Whitman auf meinen Lippen.“ Whitman wird von vielen als Amerikas erster und größter #ichter angesehen. Er inspirierte viele, die nach ihm kamen, darunter Ezra #Pound, Langston #Hughes, #Kerouac, #Ginsberg, F#erlinghetti, Gary #Snyder und June #Jordan.
Whitmans Engagement für #Solidarität inspirierte viele #Linke der späten 1800er und frühen 1900er Jahre, darunter Emma #Goldman und die #WW, die Kopien von Whitmans Gedichten in Form des Little Blue Book an ihre Mitglieder verteilte. Bartolomeo #Vanzetti, Elizabeth Gurley #Flynn und Ralph #Chaplin bezeichneten Whitman ebenfalls als ihre #Inspiration. Er inspirierte auch den kubanischen Dichter und Revolutionär José #Martí sowie Pablo #Neruda und Jorge Luis #Borges.
Via: trueten.de
Quelle: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114603241424442651 @MikeDunnAuthor #Literatur #Anarchismus #LBTQIA
#IndicaBooks #BetterBooks #Book #Publishing
#InternationalTimes (IT)
#London #SouthamptonRow
#BarryMiles #JohnHopkins https://kennywilson.org/2016/09/05/john-hopkins-invented-the-1960s/ #Boyd
#Beat #Kerouac
https://barrymiles.co.uk/photo-library/indica-books-1965-1970/
http://www.joeboyd.co.uk/john-hoppy-hopkins
Me voici pour la 2ème fois à l’assaut de "Naked Lunch" (William .S. #burroughs Penguin, 2015 [1959], contemplant, déconfit et rageur, l’abysse qui sépare la bonne connaissance d’une langue de l'intimité avec une culture, a fortiori celle de la contre-culture beatnik des années 50, de sa dépendance aux drogues, à l’alcool, au sexe, à la recherche (désespérée ?) d’un « ailleurs » que traduit une littérature (vocabulaire, syntaxe, construction) tellement « autre ». Burroughs (le dynamiteur), #Ginsberg (le politique manipulateur), #Kerouac (le poète)… Puis-je encore les comprendre (et les aimer ?) quand le monde dans lequel je vis est si différent du leur?
Elogio dell’eccesso / 7 – L’atlante del dolore di William T. Vollmann https://www.carmillaonline.com/2025/04/23/elogio-delleccesso-7-latlante-del-dolore-di-william-t-vollmann/ #Louis-FerdinandCéline #WilliamT.Vollmann #GiacomoLeopardi #prostituzione #ItaloCalvino #Afghanistan #Stalingrado #Interventi #Recensioni #MinimumFax #Fukushima #MarkTwain #Occidente #RustBelt #Kerouac #dolore #NASDAQ
A very glossy biopic.
#author #authors #kerouac #books #cinema #film #movies #moviereview #writing
Read this #filmreview at https://kevinklehr.com/2020/05/18/authors-in-cinema-kerouac/
#ForReferenceOnly #Intern #neibu
#Ehrenburg #Kerouac #Salinger #Sartre
#books #censorship #translation
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2009_NL36.html
https://www.sfu.ca/~shuyuk/original%20papers/ForReferenceOnly.pdf
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2008_NL25.html
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2020_NL104_4.html
https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/shan/nl-archiv/2020_NL103_2.html
■ Stufenweise ■
Nichts als machen
auch im Schatten
Frei in meinem Tun
Weiter werken wirken
Sinnig angedacht ohne
Zwang im Wollen der
Anderen - meins weitergeben
Eigensinnig wandelnd froh
©️Geertje Jürgens
Genießt das Wochenende 🤗 #kerouac
#wandelsinn ☘️🗯🪶 #mastoart #poetry #poesie
Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality. Ginsberg’s first experience with LSD, as well as Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s, was with acid provided by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, one-time husband of and long-time collaborator with Margaret Mead. You can read more about Bateson and Mead’s early experimentation with, and promotion of, psychedelics (and their collaboration with the CIA) in the recent book, “Tripping on Utopia.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #poetry #howl #lgbtq #allenginsburg #homophobia #lawrenceferlinghetti #citylights #obscenity #censorship #bannedbooks #kerouac #williamburoughs #lsd #peyote #margaretmead #gregorybateson #psycheldelics #books #writer #author #poet @bookstadon
JACK KEROUAC & STEVE ALLEN
Poetry For The Beat Generation
2023 U.S. Ltd. Ed. Reissue
Milky Clear #vinyl
What turned me into the Kerouac freak I am today was THIS record. When I was young, probably 6 or 7, we used to get records from the library.
I never knew what I was grabbing half the time, mostly choosing based on the cover.
This was from one of those visits.
Opened up a whole new beautiful odd language for me, one I was too young to understand.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #art #poetry #kerouac
Today in Labor History March 5, 1917: Members of the IWW went on trial in Everett, Washington for the Everett Massacre, which occurred on November 5, 1916. In reality, they were the victims of an assault by a mob of drunken, vigilantes, led by Sheriff McRae. The IWW members had come to support the 5-month long strike by shingle workers. When their boat, the Verona, arrived, the Sheriff asked who their leader was. They replied, “We are all leaders.” Then the vigilantes began firing at their boat. They killed 12 IWW members and 2 of their own, who they accidentally shot in the back. Before the killings, 40 IWW street speakers had been taken by deputies to Beverly Park, where they were brutally beaten and run out of town. In his “USA” trilogy, John Dos Passos mentions Everett as “no place for the working man.” And Jack Kerouac references the Everett Massacre in his novel, “Dharma Bums.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #everett #massacre #policebrutality #vigilante #strike #union #police #policemurder #FreeSpeech #kerouac #dosassos #hisfic #novel #literature #writer #author #books @bookstadon
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025
"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'
"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York.
"But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine.
"They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine
“…what a strange sad adventure life might get to be…” #kerouac #thetownandthecity
A good chunk of my December reading time was spent on one book, a wonderful and immersive title which really got under my skin and left me with a massive book hangover: "The Town and the City" by Jack Kerouac. This nearly 500 page novel was the first work published by the author, and it's in many ways become overshadowed by his more famous/notorious "On the Road" and his reputation as the…
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