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Counterculture, 07 November 2019

SUBTRACTION CHRONICLES
Episode 4 – Less Is Not Yet a Bore

Chronicle by Jean-Baptiste Farkas

Summary
Can we reduce to have more ? Is this really possible ? Such is the challenge proposed by the American group The Minimalists. Eliminate, detach, declutter, let go to make room for more time, more passion, more creativity, experience and freedom. A reminiscence of the old Situationist dream that called for an “everyday revolution”. 

Writer, theoretician, filmmaker, poet and revolutionary Guy Debord drew inspiration from a French philosopher who deserves more readership today, Henri Lefebvre, whose Critique de la vie quotidienne II, Fondements d’une sociologie de la quotidienneté1 (Critique of Everyday Life, volume II) defined the concept of “everyday revolution”, which almost instantaneously became a landmark aspect of the…

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