Beckett, Solitude, c. 1932

Lumberjack at the bar on Saturday night learns that man’s best friend is really a cat, Craigville, Minnesota, 1937 - by Russell Lee

Sarajevo

There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo

The Dug-Out night club, Beirut (1960)

The Dug-Out was an underground night club in 60s Beirut. The walls had writings from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-poet of Persia.

An M19 guerrilla watches the outside of the Dominican Republic embassy through the holes of a curtain, during the three-month-long Dominican Republic embassy siege, Bogota, Colombia, 1980.

The degenerate state of the spectacle, individual experience, and collective acts of refusal need to combine and generate practical tactics for dealing with roles. Collectively, it is quite possible to abolish roles. The spontaneous creativity and festive atmosphere unleashed in revolutionary moments afford ample evidence of this. Once the spirit of the people is filled with joy, no leader, no mise-en-scène can recapture it.

Raoul Vaneigem - The Revolution of Everyday Life