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The Orange Press

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My name is Paul Werner and my paintings have footnotes. Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973. Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999. Pronouns: Dr., PhD. https://theorangepress.substack.com

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Reading Revolution. The Valmy moment October 25, 2026 at 9:00 am EST If you’ve been educated at a French lycée the French Revolution isn’t meant to provide a single lesson. Rather, in good positivist-Republican fashion, each historical event presents itself as a unique shorthand,

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Likewise for yesterday’s marchers in Paris, and Lyon, and elsewhere. Of course there’s no point in looking closely at the actual events of 1792, except to note that the Prussian general’s ultimate decision before the revolutionary’s revolve was:

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Reading Revolution. The Valmy moment October 25, 2026 at 9:00 am EST If you’ve been educated at a French lycée the French Revolution isn’t meant to provide a single lesson. Rather, in good positivist-Republican fashion, each historical event presents itself as a unique shorthand,

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Yesterday’s marches were the Valmy moment—or could be read that way. The appropriate point of reference is the Battle of Valmy, on September 22, 1792, when inexperienced French troops supposedly stopped a Prussian advance by the simple expedient of not folding under fire.

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Liberty on the Barricades [Discuss] The prestigious École du Louvre, one of the major elite educational institutions in France, dedicated to the formation of a cadre of art historians, has gone on strike. Could art critics be next? Dream on.

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A Fable of AI At the time when Braque and Picasso were producing their Cubist collages (moving from Analytic to Synthetic), a sycophantic hanger-on noticed they were both spending an inordinate amount of time duplicating the patterns of wallpaper.

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In the hopes of ingratiating himself, the sycophant (a human AI, if you will), brought them a pattern comb, an instrument that would allow the user to duplicate wallpaper patterns with ease and speed.

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When the fawning wannabe next visited the studio, he found that the two artists had taken the comb and glued it to the canvas. If my meaning seems obscure, I suggest you ask AI for assistance.

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Actually, there's been a fantastic body for a while that's only coming into its own. I'm referring to August Aichhorn, whose "Wayward Youth" [Verwahrloste Jugend] appeared in 1925; and his colleague, Anna Freud, whose writings are only now coming into their own.

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Incidentally, and sadly, August's grandson Thomas died last year. A fine human being and one of the very few to stand against the Aryanization of psychoanalytic thought in Austria over the past decades.

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Come to think of it, "Wagner-Jauregg Prize" would work better. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was the "brilliant" Viennese doctor who first got fame for "curing" soldiers of shell-shock by attaching electrodes to their balls;

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Please, someone start a Jason Arday Memorial website on which contributors can post all the instances of academic fraud and plagiarism by privileged white men and terfs. I've got a few doozies I would love to contribute, secure in the knowledge that it won't affect their careers in the least.

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then went on to win the Nobel for claiming to cure syphilis by injecting patients with malaria; and eventually joined the Nazi Party. None of this hampered his career in any way.

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bsky.app/profile/elis... Parce que pour la droite, le seul suicide « responsable », c’est le suicide pour la Grandeur et la Nation. Les autres, ils s'en foutent.

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Une gauche irresponsable fête le vote d’une loi qui va provoquer la mort. La mort des personnes les plus fragilisées socialement. A quel moment on trinque sur un acte de désespoir, de solitude et de souffrance tel que le suicide ? Où est votre humanité ? Où est votre décence ?

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8.05.1945 : massacre colonial à Sétif et Guelma alors que l'Europe fête la victoire contre le nazisme, l'armée française tire sur une manifestation algérienne pacifique à Sétif ce qui provoque la colère de la population et embrase la région qui se retrouve alors dans

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Problem solved:

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It's telling that in the run up to the local elections on Thursday, there are suddenly a large number of Starmerite sleeper accounts (some bots, some phone farms) crawling out of the woodwork. And yet, the Labour Party still officially has no formal presence on Bluesky.