#karl kraus

[lillyli-74]

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

~Karl Kraus

[fidjiefidjie]

"Les journaux 🗞 ont à peu près le même rapport à la vie que la cartomancienne à la métaphysique.”

Karl Kraus

Gif Gallica/ Caran d'Ache

[davidhudson]

Karl Kraus, April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936.

[derangedrhythms]

Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose: Sevenfold Song of Death; 'Karl Kraus', tr. Alexander Stillmark

TEXT ID: White high priest of truth, Crystal voice wherein God's icy breath dwells. Wrathful magus, Whose blue warrior's breastplate beneath blazing mantle rings.

[schizografia]

Due prin­cipi avversi tra loro muo­vono la nostra esi­stenza spi­ri­tuale: il senso del pit­to­re­sco e il pia­cere del neces­sa­rio. Vor­rei scom­met­tere cento con­tro uno che l’uomo che, per così dire, vive la vita, e cioè il fili­steo, dà la pre­fe­renza al pit­to­re­sco, men­tre il poeta si accon­tenta del neces­sa­rio. Il poeta ha infatti biso­gno di avere via libera nella vita este­riore per poter arri­vare a quei mira­coli che tira fuori da se stesso. Porta nella sua testa tutte le stelle del cielo e, per goderne, ha solo biso­gno di una lam­pada che fun­zioni bene. Sapere che esi­stono vet­ture pub­bli­che che lo con­du­cono rapi­da­mente e como­da­mente al suo tavolo di lavoro è per lui più impor­tante di sapere che nel museo della sua città è appeso un auten­tico Cor­reg­gio. Per il fili­steo, invece, il Cor­reg­gio è indi­spen­sa­bile, anche se non è in grado di distin­guerlo da un auten­tico Knack­fuss. Il fili­steo vive in un pre­sente costi­tuito da attrat­tive turi­sti­che; l’artista tende, invece, verso un pas­sato dotato di tutti i com­fort dell’epoca moderna.

Karl Kraus

[lunamarish]

Lo scienziato non porta niente di nuovo. Inventa soltanto ciò che serve. L’artista scopre ciò che non serve. Porta il nuovo.

Karl Kraus

[altri-menti]

[power-chords]

[justwatchmyeyes]

Das Geheimnis des Agitators ist, sich so dumm zu machen, wie seine Zuhörer sind, damit sie glauben, sie seien so gescheit wie er.

Karl Kraus

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Das Geheimnis des Agitators ist, sich so dumm zu machen, wie seine Zuhörer sind, damit sie glauben, sie seien so gescheit wie er.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself appear as stupid as his followers, so that they imagine themselves to be as clever as he is.

—Karl Kraus, Sprüche und Widersprüche, pt iv: Presse, Dummheit, Politik (1924)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[drowningparty]

“Come back to life, and ask them what they did to you. Ask them what they did while you were struggling under their orders—before you died under their orders. Ask them what they did while you spent your winters on the eastern front. What they did that night when the officers’ phone call to your forward position received no answer. Everything was quiet on the front. You had followed orders, as they later learned, standing fast, man to man, rifles ready to shoot. You were not among those who surrendered, deserted, or had to be warmed up – because they were freezing – with the machine-gun fire of their commanders. You held your positions and did not retreat into the murderous clutches of your Fatherland. Before you the enemy, behind you the Fatherland, and above you the eternal stars. Wake up from your cold graves! Step out, and demand that they give you back your lives! Where are you—you who died in hospital? My last letter was returned to me, stamped: 'Shipped out. Address unknown.' Step out, and tell me where you are and what it’s like, and tell them that you will never again let them use you as they have. And you there, you with the face to which you were condemned in your last moment when the beast in command rushed into your trench—step out! Not that you had to die—no, but that you had to live through that nightmare—makes all our future sleep and all our dying in bed a sin. I long for vengeance—not for your death, but for the agony of what you had to live through.”

Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind (1918).

[garadinervi]

Arnold Schönberg an Karl Kraus, 1. April 1917 [Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien]

Exhibition: Arnold Schönberg & Karl Kraus, Anniversary Exhibition, marking the 150th Birthdays of Arnold Schönberg & Karl Kraus, Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien, January 17 – May 10, 2024. Curator: Therese Muxeneder. Architecture: Jochen Koppensteiner. Digital realization: Christoph Edtmayr

[ma-pi-ma]

Piuttosto perdonare un brutto piede

che delle brutte calze.

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Karl Kraus, Detti e contraddetti, 1909

[schizografia]

Sotto il sole non c’è essere più infelice del feticista che brama una scarpa da donna e deve contentarsi di una femmina intera.

Karl Kraus

[zoeflake]

[driftlessarearev]

Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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Wednesday Poetry Corner: Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis Posts about poetry, poiesis, and poetics. Via Numbers Materialist Press 2018 Personal copy: No. 183/200 Numbers, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis is premised as “a one-woman collage kabbalah, a work of artisanal cosmology, decoding and interpreting numbers zero to five.” It is one of her post-Drafts “interstitial” works, lying outside the…