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I told the carpenters, told the builders, told the electricians,I told the grocer's delivery boy: "Secure that shutter;all night long, loose-jointed, it bangs in the wind,won't let me sleep. The owner is away. The house is becoming a ruin.Nobody has been in it for twelve years. Secure it. I'll pay for it.""We don't have the right," they said. "We can't interfere," they said."The owner's away. It's a stranger's house." That was just what I was hoping for,what I wanted them to say, to recognize they had no right.Let the shutter alone, let it bang in the wind over the garden,over the empty cisterns with the slugs and the lizards,with the scorpions, the empty spools, the broken glass. That noisegives me an argument, allows me to sleep nights.
February 10, 1969
Yannis Ritsos: The Unhinged Shutter, from Railing [1968-1969], in Exile and Return: Selected Poems 1967-1974, translated by Edmund Keeley, 1985
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A man working at Athens' central fish market waits for customers on June 29: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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#Greece: Austerity street art (photo by Louisa Gouliamaki): image via image by Pedro da Costa @pdacosta, 30 June 2015
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#Greece street artists vent their fury over financial crisis with graffiti masterpieces: image via Jim Roberts @nycjim, 30 June 2015
#Greece street artists vent their fury over financial crisis with graffiti masterpieces: image via Jim Roberts @nycjim, 30 June 2015
#Greece street artists vent their fury over financial crisis with graffiti masterpieces: image via Jim Roberts @nycjim, 30 June 2015
Tragic: #Greece bank manager explains 'the situation' to distraught retirees (photo by Yannis Behrakis) #EuroCrisis: image by Pedro da Costa @pdacosta, 29 June 2015
Stardust of Capitalism. Xin-Y, Taipei, Taiwan: photo by Brandon Wong, 8 January 2013
The Disintegration of Capitalism: photo by Ian Sane, 7 August 2010
Women line up for a job interview at a Buenos Aires store promoting “liquidación", or sale, amid Argentina’s default crisis of 2001: photo by Diego Giudice/AP via The Guardian, 30 June 2015
Capitalism (Varna, Bulgaria)): photo by marcel601, 25 May 2012
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Destroy Capitalism $30 [stencil art by Banksy, on exhibit in downtown Los Angeles]: photo by lance robotson, 16 September 2006
Oh the irony: Banksy's "Destroy Capitalism" prints for sale on Walmart.com: image via Emily CohnVerified account@emily_cohn, 3 December 2013
BREAKING: Merkel says she won't discuss #Greeces new bailout proposal until Sunday referendum: image via RT @RT_com, 30 June 2015
Bono "delighted" to donate €2 to #Greece: image via Eurohand News @eurohand_org, 30 June 2015
#GreeceCrisis | "We don't owe, we won't sell, we won't pay": Voices from the streets of Athens: image via teleSUR English @telesurenglish, 30 June 2015
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A sea of umbrellas saying yes to reform and the eurozone. Smell of burning plastic in air. Don't know why. #Greece: image via Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins, 30 June 2015
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Pensioners stand behind shutters of the Alpha Bank headquarters in central Athens on June 29: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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Pensioners stand behind shutters of the Alpha Bank headquarters in central Athens on June 29: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
February 10, 1969
Yannis Ritsos: The Unhinged Shutter, from Railing [1968-1969], in Exile and Return: Selected Poems 1967-1974, translated by Edmund Keeley, 1985
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A notice at an Athens gas station reads "NO Fuel.": photo by Milos Bicanski via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
#Greece defiant as default looms: image via Reuters Live @ReutersLive, 30 June 2015
Carrying banners calling for a “NO” vote in the forthcoming referendum on bailout conditions set by the country’s creditors, protesters gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, late on Monday. Some 17,000 people took to the streets of Athens and Thessalonique to say ‘No’ to the latest offer of a bailout deal Monday, accusing Greece's international creditors of blackmail: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP, 30 June 2014
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Unhinged: Saying 'No' to the banks
Carrying banners calling for a “NO” vote in the forthcoming referendum on bailout conditions set by the country’s creditors, protesters gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, late on Monday. Some 17,000 people took to the streets of Athens and Thessalonique to say ‘No’ to the latest offer of a bailout deal Monday, accusing Greece's international creditors of blackmail: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP, 30 June 2014
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Protesters gather in central Athens on June 29, urging rejection of the latest offer of a bailout deal by Greece's international creditors: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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Protesters gather in central Athens on June 29, urging rejection of the latest offer of a bailout deal by Greece's international creditors: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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Demonstrators gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on June 29 to protest what they say is an unfair bailout deal offered by the country's international creditors: photo by Aris Messinis / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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Supporters of a "no" vote in the upcoming referendum on a proposed bailout deal for Greece gather near the White Tower, a landmark in Thessaloniki, on June 29: photo by Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
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Supporters of a "no" vote in the upcoming referendum on a proposed bailout deal for Greece gather near the White Tower, a landmark in Thessaloniki, on June 29: photo by Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015
Explaining 'the situation': Don't worry, Europe helps you
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Sadness in Hellas
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Tender, ever
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Tragic: #Greece bank manager explains 'the situation' to distraught retirees (photo by Yannis Behrakis) #EuroCrisis: image by Pedro da Costa @pdacosta, 29 June 2015
Unhinged: Stardust ofcapitalism,disintegrating
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Stardust of Capitalism. Xin-Y, Taipei, Taiwan: photo by Brandon Wong, 8 January 2013
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The Disintegration of Capitalism: photo by Ian Sane, 7 August 2010
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Capitalism Kills Love (Brussels): photo by Jeremy Hunsinger, 5 January 2009
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Capitalism=death. Esquina de Mendoza y Buenos Aires (Rosario): gaviota paseandera, 7 August 2005
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Capitalism=death. Esquina de Mendoza y Buenos Aires (Rosario): gaviota paseandera, 7 August 2005
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Capitalism (Ann Arbor, Michigan): photo by Ross, 30 March 2007
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Capitalism: image by rstrawser, 7 October 2007
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Women line up for a job interview at a Buenos Aires store promoting “liquidación", or sale, amid Argentina’s default crisis of 2001: photo by Diego Giudice/AP via The Guardian, 30 June 2015
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Way of Capitalism (Hamburg): photo by Txmx 2, 3 December 2014
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Way of Capitalism (Hamburg): photo by Txmx 2, 3 December 2014
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Capitalism (Varna, Bulgaria)): photo by marcel601, 25 May 2012
Unhinged: A head full of snakes
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Head of Medusa: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1598-99, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 58 cm diameter (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Where capitalist production is fully naturalised... The social statistics... raise the veil just enough to let us catch a glimpse of the Medusa head behind it.
Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
Karl Marx, Capital, 1867, preface to the first German edition
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Destroy Capitalism $30 [stencil art by Banksy, on exhibit in downtown Los Angeles]: photo by lance robotson, 16 September 2006
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The Horror [stencil art by Banksy, on exhibit in downtown Los Angeles]: photo by lance robotson, 16 September 2006
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Enjoy Capitalism. I just printed a hundred of these together with a friend. We are going to sell them to people who enjoy capitalism and market economy: photo by Jacob Bøtter, 23 December 2004
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Enjoy Capitalism. I just printed a hundred of these together with a friend. We are going to sell them to people who enjoy capitalism and market economy: photo by Jacob Bøtter, 23 December 2004
Unhinged: Refill it all
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Refill it all. Los Angeles, California: photo by michaelj1998, 2 January 2015
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Stoli. Los Angeles, California: photo by michaelj1998, 24 October 2014
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Saul. K-Town, Los Angeles, California: photo by michaelj1998, 13 February 2015
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Saul. K-Town, Los Angeles, California: photo by michaelj1998, 13 February 2015
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Oreo. Wilshire Blvd: photo by michaelj1998, 13 March 2015
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For an unhinged future: tight lips from Frau Nein, chump change from Bono, growing resolve to dump the capitalist model -- and a mysterious smell of burning plastic turncoat
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#GreeceCrisis | "We don't owe, we won't sell, we won't pay": Voices from the streets of Athens: image via teleSUR English @telesurenglish, 30 June 2015
Zeus sent home thousands of pro-Troika protesters, earlier today in #Athens #Greece: image via 15MBcn_int 15 @15MBcn_int, 30 June 2015
A sea of umbrellas saying yes to reform and the eurozone. Smell of burning plastic in air. Don't know why. #Greece: image via Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins, 30 June 2015