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Counterculture, 12 December 2019

SUBTRACTION CHRONICLES
Episode 9 – Observatory of the Banal

Chronicle by Jean-Baptiste Farkas

Summary
What is banalysis? An analysis of the banal, of the absurd? It can be so much more than that, just look at its followers, who convened for years at the Fades train station in the middle of France, for nothing less than “a complete and utter loss of irretrievable time.”

  Once upon a time there was Banalysis, a “critical and experimental movement created by Pierre Bazantay and Yves Hélias in the early 1980s”. Banalysis is an invented word that means “decomposing the banal”. An extremely discrete movement, it gave rise to the “Ordinary Congress of Banalysis, an annual meeting held from 1982 to 1991…

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