Fred's answer: Given the immensity of the repression that was experienced in the 1970s, when it seemed that the possibility of a better world would be truly lost, that "the coming form of revolution appears first in the imagination and then in the streets."

The essence of being human is that we are always grasping towards the totality, yet we cannot comprehend the totality due our finite nature. Of us all, Fredric Jameson perhaps came closest.

Yesterday László Krasznahorkai received the prestigious Prix Formentor 2024. He thanked Kafka whose novel THE CASTLE he read age 12 in the hope that his brother’s friends would accept him in their circle, thereby sealing his own fate Fundación Formentor Acantilado RCW Literary Agency

Ich habe soeben die Petition für die Kampagne “Rettet 3sat – unser Kultursender darf nicht verschwinden!” unterschrieben. Gehe jetzt auf innn.it, falls du auch die Kampagne unterstützen willst! innn.it/3sat

Arundhati Roy, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2024, has announced imprisoned British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah as this year’s Writer of Courage #FreeAlaa @freedomforalaa. englishpen.org/posts/campaign…

The one and only... Every time an enchantment! 🥰

It should be snowing rather than raining on #glaciers in late October... (!) Well, that's the "white beauty" of Griesgletscher right now. Not-so-nice final visit this morning for some last installations before winter.

This László Krasznahorkai guy sure can write.

Ice cliff of Argentière Gacier yesterday... 😥 Smaller and smaller... doesn't feed the lower relict tongue anymore! Pic @EmilieJ16440547

This is what the front of the largest ice mass in the Alps looks like! 😭 During last years it was buried below debris of the Moosfluh landslide (R), but not anymore. Now a large floodplain has taken over! 🌊

Peace and serenity at last! Merci grand fleuve de glace d'exister encore un peu, pour la Joie immense de te contempler, te parcourir, te rêver....💛

Travel Through Stories Valuska: one of Krasznahorkai’s angels, one of the holy people – in sharp contrast with the faceless mob. “In the end, things always turn out badly for Krasznahorkai’s angels. They function as sacrifices ‘because at the end of the day someone has to pay.’” rektoverso.be/artikel/tango-…

Here is a short video of one of the 1st Klamath River salmon to make it to the tributaries above the former Iron Gate Dam. The clip was recorded last Friday by Yurok Fisheries Dept Geologist Kayah Ray, who is part of a team surveying salmon in the newly undammed river reach.

20s of Morteratsch Glacier melting in front of the ice cave today... 😥🌧

„FREIHEIT für Künstler GAO ZHEN – Freiheit für die Kunst” - Jetzt unterschreiben! chng.it/w74xY8n6rv via Change.org Deutschland

Erudite & exacting, Jeffrey Yang’s LINE AND LIGHT Graywolf Press draws different worlds out of time’s “displaced embrace” & blends collaborative breath into words that are so refined & rectifying that reading becomes rendering. Now open this “memory place”& “walk into spring.”

Heidelberger Beton soll Indonesien fluten: weact.campact.de/petitions/stop…

Roubaud was such a lovely man-- Robert and I spent two weeks at a poetry festival in Germany with him-- he translated some of Robert's poems into French. RIP 🙏

Zakir Hussain 1951-2024   “Everybody wants to play with Zakir Hussain,” Herbie Hancock once said. “He is able to transcend cultures and national borders.”   Read the full article on our website: ecmrecords.com/zakir-hussain-…

Assn Schank: Petition für die Kampagne “Große Antwort auf kleine Anfrage von CDU: OMAS GEGEN RECHTS lassen sich nicht einschüchtern!” Gehe jetzt auf innn.it/anmerzvonomas#…, falls du auch die Kampagne unterstützen willst!