Monthly Archive for November, 2009
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I had been born in the working-class, and I was now, at the age of eighteen, beneath the point at which I had started. I was down in the cellar of society, down in the subterranean depths of misery about which it is neither nice nor proper to speak. I was in the pit, the abyss, the human cesspool, the shambles and the charnel-house of our civilization. This is the part of the edifice of society that society chooses to ignore. Lack of space compels me here to ignore it, and I shall say only that the things I there saw gave me a terrible scare.
I was scared into thinking. I saw the naked simplicities of the complicated civilization in which I lived. Life was a matter of food and shelter. In order to get food and shelter men sold things. The merchant sold shoes, the politician sold his manhood, and the representative of the people, with exceptions, of course, sold his trust; while nearly all sold their honor. Women, too, whether on the street or in the holy bond of wedlock, were prone to sell their flesh. All things were commodities, all people bought and sold. The one commodity that labor had to sell was muscle. The honor of labor had no price in the market-place. Labor had muscle, and muscle alone, to sell. – Jack London
From: Revolution & Other Essays (1909)
1-When and why did you decide to form Rembarre?
We have decided to form Rembarre two years ago with Pierre (Guitar) and Thomas (singer). We both had experience in doing punk/oi! style music because we played in different bands before. We also are long time friends and have the same point of view on our society. We wanted to make a musical and political project together because we think that music is a political weapon and a good way to broadcast our believes and hopes.
Pierre had a friend, Ru5dy, who accepted to play drum and Ru5dy with a friend of him, Yohann, had already a recording studio with the best equipments (microphones, drum, speakers etc..). Yohan is also a guitar/bass player and a skilful sound technician. Just so, Rembarre has the musicians and we can record anything any time we want for free and with the best sound possible … in a DIY way of course haha !
Rembarre happens to be an identity band even if we live very far away the one from the others (Thomas lives at more than 9000kms from France). We have never rehearsed in a real studio with all the members together which was (and is still now) a challenge ! But anyway we try with that difficulties to make a good sound. To record the next songs, Thomas is going to us a friend’s home-made studio, fully equipped too, in the country he lives and the others are going to record at Rembarre’s studio.
Rembarre is a musical and technical challenge, which adds more fun to the concept.
2-Is Rembarre a musical arm of the Zentropa Clan?
The Modern Conception of Sovereignty: A Jacobin Invention
by
Alain de Benoist
The question of sovereignty reappeared at the end of the Middle Ages, when many began to ask not only what is the best possible form of government, or what should be the purpose of the authority held by political power, but what is the political bond that unites a people to its government? That is to say, how ought we to define, within a political community, the connection between those who govern and those who are governed?
This is the question that Jean Bodin attempted to address in his famous book, La République (The Commonwealth), which appeared in 1576. Bodin did not invent sovereignty, but he was the first to make a conceptual analysis and to propose a systematic formulation. The starting point for this exercise was not an observation of the facts but a two-fold aspiration: first, Bodin’s desire for a restoration of the social order, which had been turned upside down by the religious wars, and second, the demand, on the part of the kings of France, for emancipation from every form of allegiance to the emperor and the pope. Bodin’s treatment of sovereignty would quite naturally constitute the ideology of the territorial kingdoms, then in their infancy, which sought to emancipate themselves from the tutelage of the Holy Roman Empire, while consolidating the transformation of power that resulted from the king’s success in dominating his feudal nobility.
To criticise, to destroy, is not difficult; any unskilled labourer knows how to drive his pick into the noble and finely-hewn stone of a cathedral. To construct: that is what requires the skill of a master. – Josemaría Escrivá
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so. – Celine
