Marco Riformetti | I capelloni ovvero le ascendenze | Antiper

Le due esperienze più influenti all’interno del movimento per le autoriduzioni ai concerti sono, lo vedremo meglio più avanti, «Re Nudo» e «Stampa Alternativa». In queste due esperienze spiccano le figure di Andrea Valcarenghi (direttore di «Re Nudo») e di Marcello Baraghini (direttore di «Stampa Alternativa») le quali, sia pure in modo diverso, attraversano buona parte delle controculture degli anni ‘60 e ‘70 ed esercitano, con le proprie produzioni, un’influenza importante

Wortgeschichte zu „Provo“ / ZDL − Zentrum für digitale Lexikographie der deutschen Sprache

The whimsical anarchism of the White Bicycle revolution

  In the summer of 1965, Dutch designer and political activist Luud Schimmelpennink suggested a simple radical scheme that would eventually change the world. Schimmelpennink had an idea for creating a more sustainable environment by giving away free bicycles for communal use in Amsterdam’s city center. The suggestion was called the “White Bicycle Plan” and was part of a series of “White Plans” devised by the Dutch anarchist group Provo. Provo is a Dutch word for “young trouble-maker” and was considered an appropriate name for a group of young anarchists to carry out political “happenings” and stunts that were inspired as much by DADA as by Herbert Marcuse. Provo was formed by artist and anti-smoking campaigner Robert Jasper Grootveld, writer and anarchist Roel van Duijn and activist Rob Stolk in May 1965. Their motivation, they explained, was to fight back against capitalist society that was “poisoning itself with a morbid thirst for money,” where its citizens were “being brought up to worship Having and despise Being.” Because this bureaucratic society is choking itself with officialdom and suppressing any form of spontaneity. Its members can only become creative, individual people through anti-social conduct. Because the militaristic society is digging its own grave...

I provos, i beatniks e l’anarchia (1966-1967)

Questo volume di Franco Schirone è la naturale prosecuzione del suo precedente, dal titolo “La Gioventù Anarchica” (Milano, ZIC, 2006), di cui ripropone la seconda parte presentando, in allegato, u…