AD ERMES

Ermes, io lungamente ti ho invocato.

In me è solitudine: tu aiutami,

despota, ché morte da sé non viene;

nulla m'alletta tanto che consoli.

Io voglio morire:

voglio vedere la riva d'Acheronte

fiorita di loto fresca di rugiada.

(Saffo, traduzione di Salvatore Quasimodo)

Berliner Ensemble

Stripling: Mr Brecht, would you mind stating your personal particulars, your name, address, birth date and place etc. to put on record?
Brecht: My name is...
Stripling: Speak in the microphone, please.
Brecht: My name is Bertolt Brecht.
Stripling: Spell your name, please.
Brecht: spells BERTOLT BRECHT.
Stripling: Where do you live?
Brecht: I live number 34 Seventy-third Street West, New York.
Stripling: Where were you born?
Brecht: I was born in Augsburg, Germany, the 10th of February 1898.
Stripling: The Committee has… Could you repeat your birth date?
Brecht: February 10 1898.
Stripling: 1898?
Brecht: 1898.
Stripling: I think particulars from the immigration office state it was 1888.
Brecht: I beg your pardon?
Stripling: I need to check whether details from the Immigration Office are correct…
Brecht: I was born in 1898.
Stripling: Mr Brecht, do you wish to use an interpreter?
Brecht: Yes, I would like an interpreter.
Stripling: Call the interpreter.

Stripling: Mr Baumgardt, do you swear you will diligently, and with exactitude, translate all of the questions that witness Bertolt Brecht will be asked, and that you will equally diligently and with exactitude translate all of his anwers; will you swear this unto God?
Baumgardt: Unto God.
Stripling: You may take a seat.

When they came.

(EN) « When they came for the Jews and the blacks, I turned away When they came for the writers and the thinkers and the radicals and the protestors, I turned away When they came for the gays, and the minorities, and the utopians, and the dancers, I turned away And when they came for me, I turned around and around, and there was nobody left… »	(IT) « Quando vennero per gli ebrei ed i neri, distolsi gli occhi Quando vennero per gli scrittori e i pensatori ed i radicali e i dimostranti, distolsi gli occhi Quando vennero per gli omosessuali, per le minoranze, gli utopisti, i ballerini, distolsi gli occhi E poi quando vennero per me mi voltai e mi guardai intorno, non era rimasto più nessuno… »
(Hue and Cry, Yellow Triangle )

A Thousand Plateaus Seminar

If all will be good next week, probabilly on Friday, there will be the first meet-up for planning the 'A Thousand Plateaus Seminar'.

This idea jumped in my mind when 'semioticmonkey' showed me a link on Deleuze & Guattari's Thousand Plateaus; this site is spreading D&G's book with self-reflection, seminars and a 'common' web site well everyone can write, read and compare his/her personal 'lecture' with others in the worlds. After reading a bit on this site the day after i started speaking with some philosophy mates and non-philosophy ones and i found that quite all of them - the part of them that is interested in Deleuze's thinking - was agreed with me for the seminar idea.

The seminar idea is mooded on a 'permanent seminar' that will last for all the 2009 ... probabilly this week will be meet at the first lession to discuss how to divide Thousand Plateaus and how to plan the seminar during all the year.

We will see ....

For now: A Thousand Plateaus. 

Good reading.