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Hans Kastell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MikeDunnAuthor</span></a></span> <br>'Schreisse', nu is er dot.<br>- passiert den besten.<br>Jo, kannste nix.</p><p><a href="https://nrw.social/tags/pataphysik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pataphysik</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/AlfredJarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredJarry</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Dada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dada</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Surrealismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surrealismus</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/MaxErnst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxErnst</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/NewWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewWave</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80s</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/punkrockhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punkrockhistory</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/PereUbu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PereUbu</span></a> <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/ModernDance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModernDance</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p>4-min clip from the 1997 Robert Zemeckis <a href="https://me.dm/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> 'Contact' based on the 1985 <a href="https://me.dm/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> by Carl Sagan.</p><p>Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jody Foster) enters the great <a href="https://me.dm/tags/gyroscopic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gyroscopic</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SpaceTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceTime</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machine</span></a>, opening up a <a href="https://me.dm/tags/wormhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wormhole</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/portal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>portal</span></a>. <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Gyroscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gyroscope</span></a> devices have factored heavily in <a href="https://me.dm/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://me.dm/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, going all the way back to <a href="https://me.dm/tags/HGWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HGWells</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://me.dm/tags/AlfredJarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredJarry</span></a>, pre-1900. </p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBY3cVyeyA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=scBY3cVyey</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a><br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(19</span><span class="invisible">97_American_film)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Time</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Timelesness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Timelesness</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Contact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contact</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Foster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Foster</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/McConaughey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McConaughey</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Sagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sagan</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Zemeckis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zemeckis</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimeMachine</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Kronodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kronodon</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>“Shit!”</p><p>Thus begins Alfred Jarry’s play “Ubu Roi,” which premiered December 10, 1896, and which ended in a riot.</p><p>In the play, Ubu murders the king of Poland and declares war on Russia, which he loses. Once in power, he heavily taxes the people and slaughters the nobles for their wealth. He is greedy, infantile, vulgar, stupid and cruel, relentless in his pursuit of power, and brutal in his personal relationships. He also seems an awful lot like President Trump. But how can we compare Ubu’s Napoleonic attempt to conquer Russia with Trump’s threats to conquer Greenland and Panama? Or Ubu’s attacks on the wealthy with Trump’s mass deportations and prison camps for immigrants (and anyone else his thugs suspect as “foreign”)? Or his attacks on trans folks; his slashing of social programs, civil liberties and climate mitigation? </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ubu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ubu</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pereubu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pereubu</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alfredjarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alfredjarry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>panama</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transrightsarehumanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transrightsarehumanrights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deporation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilliberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilliberties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uburoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uburoi</span></a></p>
stoicmike<p>If Trump is re-elected, he will be King Ubu. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/KingUbu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingUbu</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/UbuRoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UbuRoi</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AlfredJarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredJarry</span></a></p>
Paavo Kässi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@aleksi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aleksi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://typo.social/@ilkkajii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ilkkajii</span></a></span> Uudelleenjulkaisen tämän Perec-aiheisen Roi-vitsini Aleksin initoimana. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SusikoiraRoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusikoiraRoi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlfredJarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredJarry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UbuRoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UbuRoi</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History December 10, 1896: Alfred Jarry's play, Ubu Roi, premiered in Paris. At the end of the performance, a riot broke out. Many in the audience were confused and outraged by the obscenity and disrespect they felt in the performance. Others, like W. B. Yeats, thought it was revolutionary. Jarry’s work was a precursor to Dada, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Ubu Roi is a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth and parts of Hamlet and King Lear. However, having recently reread the play, I found an uncanny resemblance between Pere Ubu and Donald Trump. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlfredJarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredJarry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/absurdism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>absurdism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theatre</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Riot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/shakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shakespeare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/play" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>play</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>