Tag Archives: Hermeticism

Nero, prince of Science – by Berthe Courrière

Posted on June 1, 2022 by monoclelash

– Translated by Olchar E. Lindsann The magus, Decadent movement organiser, & model Berthe de Courrière was a leader of the remarkably large French avant-occult community of the 1890s. On a trip to Belgium she was abducted and abused by … Continue reading →

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Rêvenance #9

Posted on September 3, 2021 by monoclelash

Rêvenance: A Zine of Hauntings from Underground Histories. Issue 9–ed. Olchar E. Lindsann Main themes in this issue: Anti-Racism, The African Diaspora, The Druyfus Affair, French Decadence & Symbolism, Diverse Translation Approaches, Feminist Hermeticism, the Fin-de-siècle Blood-drinking craze, Paris Dada. … Continue reading →

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Jim Leftwich – The Blue Seam

Posted on August 21, 2020 by monoclelash

An alchemical text not only in its matter but in its process and effects – an experimental tincture of hermeticism, lettristic and visual and asemic poetry, relics, theory, quotation, correspondence/s, trashpo, & history in putrefaction, by one of the most … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Avant-Gardist TLPs

Posted on December 29, 2019 by monoclelash

The Forgotten Avant-Gardists TLP series provides short introductions to those who have played vital roles in developing and maintaining the avant-garde, but have dropped out of our communal consciousness over the course of two centuries. These TLPs are incitements to … Continue reading →

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Toward a Breathing Text: The Art of Madness –– by Olchar E. Lindsann

Posted on December 21, 2019 by monoclelash

Early Polemic tract of Lindsann’s. “WHAT LITERARY, PLASTIC, OR MUSICAL FORM IS AS RIPE FOR CREATIVE, WILLFUL, MANIPULATION AS THE HUMAN MIND? . . . WE MUST WRITE OUR OWN MINDS LIKE WE WRITE POEMS. . . LET THE CREATIVE … Continue reading →

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Toward (and Away From) a (Potential) Nagean Pataphysics —by Olchar E. Lindsann

Posted on December 6, 2019 by monoclelash

In this verbose and spiral (not circular) proposal for a new perspective on Pataphysics, Lindsann suggests that the (anti-)paradigmatic Pataphysician may not be Dr. Faustroll, but rather his arse-faced baboon servant, Bosse-de-Nage, who speaks only one phrase: “Ha ha!” ” … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Avant-Gardist TLP #1-2: The Mapah Ganneau –– Baptism, Marrage; w/ Traviès & Gustave Karr, trans. Olchar Lindsann

Posted on December 6, 2019 by monoclelash

After the Romanticist sculptor and phrenologist Simon Ganneau was visited by the spirit of his recently deceased wife, he founded the Evadamiste movement, a hybrid of occultism, gnosticism, feminism, and utopian socialism. Though small, the movement lasted for twenty years … Continue reading →

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The Ecstatic Nerve: Speculations on Some Dubious Subjects –– by Olchar E. Lindsann

Posted on December 3, 2019 by monoclelash

From one perspective, a programme for a radicalized practice of Thought; from another perspective, a fractured history of certain 19th and 20th Century avant-gardes; from yet another perspective, an experiment in utopian historiography. Or possibly a meticulously researched speculative novel. … Continue reading →

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Cartomancy –– by André Salmon & Apa; translated by Olchar E. Lindsann

Posted on November 22, 2019 by monoclelash

André Salmon (1881-1969) was one of the originators of literary Cubism, publishing more than twenty books of avant-garde poetry, around a dozen books of fiction, and among the first monographs of many of the Cubist and other modernist painters; very … Continue reading →

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Anti-Prophesies: Post-NeoAbsurdist Prophesy Poems, A.Da. 86-94.

Posted on November 20, 2019 by monoclelash

–– ed. Olchar E. Lindsann; Cover image by Bradley Chriss. By the Montana PNA group, Aaron Andrews, Megan Blafas, Warren Fry, Bruno Franklyn, Jim Leftwich, B. Chriss, O. Lindsann & other anonymous Post-Neos. One of the first and most versatile Post-Neo microforms, … Continue reading →

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