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23rd February 2021

Link reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 31 notes

Gabriele D'Annunzio's Fiume Enterprise: 100 Years On →

kontextmaschine:

The poet-soldier’s occupation also saw the arrival of bohemians, artists, adventurers, fugitives, homosexuals, dandies and reformers of every type. In essence, the contested city welcomed anyone who wanted to dethrone the bourgeoisie who sent the youth to war and afterwards expected that there would be business as usual.

Some of these people were part of D’Annunzio’s governing administration. There was Léon Kochnitsky, a Belgian poet who headed the Foreign Affairs department; Harukichi Shimoi, an Italian enthusiast from Japan who acted as a diplomat and tried to teach karate to the Fiuman volunteers; and last but not least Guido Keller, a former war aviator known in Fiume for being a nudist, a vegetarian and a prankster, who was in charge of a ministry that organized acts of piracy.

Of course it was always ambiguous what the “piracy” was; like Mafia “hijackings” of delivery trucks it was substantially inside jobs, here with wealthy Italian owners leaving resources, equipment and ships unguarded as a disclaimable way to get them into the right hands

  1. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Of course it was always ambiguous what the “piracy” was; like Mafia “hijackings” of delivery trucks it was substantially...
  2. polyaletheia reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    First heard about this in Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z.