Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Emotion (1966)

Erwin Blumenfeld | Hands, Paris (1937)

It was clear to Césaire, as a Marxist, that fascism was a political form of bourgeois rule in times when democracy threatened capitalism; colonialism, on the other hand, was naked power justified by racism to seize resources from people who were not willing to hand them over. Their form was different but their manners were identical.

Vijay Prashad, Red Star Over the Third World

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) dir. Éric Rohmer

It is worth stressing that none of the students I taught had any legal obligation to be at college. They could leave if they wanted to. But the lack of any meaningful employment opportunities, together with cynical encouragement from government means that college seems to be the easier, safer option. Deleuze says that Control societies are based on debt rather than enclosure; but there is a way in which the current education system both indebts and encloses students. Pay for your own exploitation, the logic insists – get into debt so you can get the same McJob you could have walked into if you’d left school at sixteen…

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Piero Dorazio, Mountain Alea, 1965