Sunday, August 15, 2021

Marble - a geopolitical videopoem/ Marbre — vidéo poéme géopolitique


 From my collection of authorial movies.


Originally published in the chapbook Plastic Millennium. Every poem in this collection is also an authorial videopoem — that is, a videopoem in which one person creates (authors) all elements of the video, including the art and music.


Text:


Marble


The soldiers tromp

Brick, shards

Matter shattered

And then dried like leaves —

The shaking down of temples,

Trees.


The marble of Romans

Is a diaspora bomb.

In the sylvan distance

GBUs thump like wine-skins

And the Syrian dancing girls

Are all wetted now

By weird rains.


The region

Stays filled with legions

While the emperor resumes drink.

And on the flag-stones

Of the thoroughfares

Sandals are whitened

By dust.


F. Harvor

Afghanistan, Kabul


 

La victoire du Taliban 2


 

La victoire du Taliban 1


 

Boris Johnson contre une solution militaire de Afghanistan / Boris Johnson against a military solution in Afghanistan


 

Monday, August 09, 2021

Les origines de Covid-19


 

The origins of COVID-19

 Mimi Lau in the South China Morning Post: « 

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei province, is at the centre of the controversial coronavirus lab leak theory. Photo: AFPThe Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei province, is at the centre of the controversial coronavirus lab leak theory. Photo: AFP
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei province, is at the centre of the controversial coronavirus lab leak theory. Photo: AFP

A trove of genetic data gathered by US intelligence agencies is unlikely to definitively prove whether the 

coronavirus
 
leaked from a lab
 in central China because much of the evidence is indirect and circumstantial, according to scientific experts.

CNN cited sources saying US intelligence agencies had gained access to a catalogue of virus information that contained genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility that some US officials claim could have been the source of the pathogen.

The new coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in late December 2019 and its origins remain unknown. »

Baudelaire

 Jean Teule sur le bicentenaire de la naissance de Charles Baudelaire: “L'anniversaire d'un poète maudit. Charles Baudelaire, né le 9 avril 1821, aurait eu 200 ans vendredi. S'il est aujourd'hui reconnu, voire admiré, il était peu recommandable à son époque. Une personnalité controversée qui ne gagnait pas forcément à être connue. Baudelaire était un sale type : détestable, odieux, misogyne. Il appréciait d'ailleurs cette détestation. "Il disait par exemple une phrase que j'aime bien : 'avec mon talent désagréable, je voudrais mettre l'humanité toute entière contre moi. Je vois là une jouissance qui me console de tout'", cite Jean Teulé, auteur du portrait original du poète maudit Crénom, Baudelaire !”