Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
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Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
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Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#2Why does the website render a word or two per line on mobile
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#3Very much related, Carney at Davos:
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#4In landscape on an iPhone it is very readable. In portrait, not so much as you have pointed out.
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#5Very much related, Carney at Davos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694947
Nice speech, but twisting Havel into a comment about international governance, at Davos of all places—while enthusiastically joining the global internet crackdown—is quite cheeky.
Havel’s essay is clearly about human-scale, bottom-up resistance against totalitarianism, not about creating new oppressive systems to defeat the old ones. The ending seems to reject traditional forms of “governance” entirely.
(For what it’s worth, I agree with some of Carney’s points—the old order was always a lie, and it is indeed dead.)
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#6Vaclav Havel: revolutionary, former President of the Czech Republic, and brilliant poet who (IIRC) invented visual word poetry, where the typographic arrangement is part of the poem's intended impact.
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#7Vaclav Havel: revolutionary, former President of the Czech Republic, and brilliant poet who (IIRC) invented visual word poetry, where the typographic arrangement is part of the poem's intended impact.
HAHAHA.
Best joke ever.
Sleeping agent of regime, siphoning all foreign aid for himself.
Empty or random words generator is more matching term than "poet".
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#8Vaclav Havel: revolutionary, former President of the Czech Republic, and brilliant poet who (IIRC) invented visual word poetry, where the typographic arrangement is part of the poem's intended impact.
How was Havel's visual poetry different from typographic experiments of the Futurists, like Zang Tumb Tumb?
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#9I recently read his essay, and wrote a reflection after a trip to Dominica. Review 001: THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS - https://www.metanoia-research.com/review-001-the-power-of-th...
Re: Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978)
#10Vaclav Havel: revolutionary, former President of the Czech Republic, and brilliant poet who (IIRC) invented visual word poetry, where the typographic arrangement is part of the poem's intended impact.
HAHAHA. Best joke ever. Sleeping agent of regime, siphoning all foreign aid for himself. Empty or random words generator is more matching term than "poet".
Before you get downvoted to oblivion, please enlighten us on what you mean by "agent of regime". Which regime do you mean, and is there evidence he (c)overtly worked with them?