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Titre : [Provocation !...]
Auteur : [Niké]
Lieu d'édition : [Paris]
Editeur : [S.n.]
Date d'édition : [191. ?]
Sujet : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918)
Sujet : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- France -- Cartes postales
Sujet : Personnages
Sujet : Personnalités contemporaines
Sujet : Guillaume (empereur d'Allemagne ; 1859-1941)
Sujet : Scatologie
Langue : fre
Format : technique mixte (carte postale) : coul. ; 14 x 9 cm
Type : image fixe
Format : image/jpeg
Type de document : carte postale
Provenance : Collection Agnès & Henry Parent de Curzon
Identifiant : 5231
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
This piece is inspired by the work of Prajakta Potnis; “The skin of pimple”. People believe that eating chocolate leads pimple. This piece of chocolate has something behind it… The back side looks like skin with pimples!
It’s quite interesting that just by turning something upside down, the meaning totally changes… from something yummy to something yucky.
Image from 'The Provocations of Madame Palissy. By the author of “Mary Powell” [Miss A. Manning]', 002753553
Author: PALISSY, Victorine.
Page: 176
Year: 1853
Place: London
Publisher:
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Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
China and Russia URGE US and North Korea to END provocation in plea to stop World War 3
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China and Russia URGE US and North Korea to END provocation in plea to stop World War 3
CHINA and Russia have both called on Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to end the cycle of provocation after North Korea said they “shall not hide” if World War 3 breaks out.
The North Korean Foreign Ministry wro...
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg
The most decisive changes in a person rarely arrive with theatrical force. They do not always appear as renunciation, collapse, or dramatic reversal. More often, they begin in subtler territory: in altered texture, in diminished urgency, in the strange discovery that something once charged with immediate power no longer commands the same interior obedience. This image inhabits that threshold. A man walks through a night street still populated by the familiar conditions of attraction, yet the old reflex has weakened. The woman remains visible. Beauty remains visible. The world has not withdrawn its provocations. What has shifted is not the scene, but the structure of response. The same pull appears, yet it no longer feels sovereign.
That distinction is what makes the image more interesting than a simple morality tale. Nothing here suggests numbness, contempt, or denial. The woman is not rendered threatening, and desire is not treated as though it has disappeared from the earth. She passes through the frame as a real person in her own right, neither inviting nor resisting, neither symbol nor snare. The man notices her presence, but his notice does not mature into pursuit. His gaze does not fasten. His attention does not elongate into inward possession. He continues walking. The moment therefore presents not absence of attraction, but the loss of attraction’s former authority. What once could have reorganized consciousness now registers and passes. That is a deeper change than repression, because repression remains haunted by the thing it must forcibly bury. This image suggests something quieter and more durable: a reordered threshold of importance.
From an existential-phenomenological standpoint, the scene concerns how consciousness changes its relation to the same world. Human beings do not merely encounter objects; they inhabit meanings. A street, a face, a passing figure, a shared atmosphere at night—these do not appear as neutral data. They arrive already interpreted through memory, appetite, fear, fantasy, and habit. Earlier in a fractured inner life, attraction may function like a command. It seizes the field of awareness, narrows the horizon, and converts another person into the center of gravity for a few loaded seconds. But interpretation can weaken where it once intensified. The same stimulus can lose its monopoly. The woman is still visible; the man is simply no longer seized in the same way. The object has not changed, but the inward world that once enlarged it beyond proportion has begun to lose its hold.
This is where the image’s dark romantic undertone becomes unusually mature. Dark romance often turns on intensity—on hunger, fixation, the almost sacred seriousness with which longing tries to interpret chance encounters as summons. Here, however, the darkness is not gone; it has become translucent. The romantic charge remains as a residue, not a ruler. The scene still carries night, distance, ambiguity, and the old possibility of inward projection, but none of these elements are allowed to totalize experience. The man does not harden against beauty. He simply refuses to be drafted by it. That refusal gives the image its melancholy dignity. Something has ended, but not because the world has become poorer. It has ended because illusion has grown less convincing.
Psychologically, this image depicts the early stages of freedom as a shift in felt inevitability. Many patterns of desire endure because they are experienced not merely as impulses, but as necessities. They seem to arise from somewhere deeper than choice, almost as though the self must obey them in order to remain itself. That is why genuine change often first appears as surprise. One suddenly discovers that an old compulsion no longer carries the same voltage. The mind does not lunge where it once lunged. The body does not follow where it once followed. The imagination does not immediately begin building a private world around a passing figure. This is not sainthood. It is interruption becoming habit. It is compulsion meeting resistance not through violence, but through reduced enchantment.
The theological resonance of the image deepens the matter further. In Confessions to the Empty Chair, moral struggle often unfolds not first at the level of visible action, but at the level of orientation, consent, and inward allegiance. The memoir’s preface frames life as a contest between discordant strains, one loud and vain, the other sorrowed yet beautiful, each shaping how reality is felt and interpreted. The book also insists that physical and spiritual reality are not sealed apart, but commingled, each rippling into the other. This image belongs to that logic. The sidewalk remains physical, the passerby remains physical, but the decisive event is spiritual and interpretive. A hierarchy within the self has begun to reorder. Desire is still present, but it no longer rules uncontested. The old counterfeit liturgy has not vanished, yet its notes have weakened.
That weakening matters because freedom is often misunderstood. Freedom is not the condition of never feeling the pull. It is the restoration of proportion. It is the recovery of the ability to see what is there without surrendering to what once attached itself to sight. The image therefore does not celebrate escape from the world. It presents a person remaining in the world under changed terms. He still walks at night. He still encounters beauty. He still feels the atmosphere of possibility. But possibility no longer becomes private captivity. In that sense, the scene marks the beginning of interior chastening, not through fear, but through differentiation. He can now distinguish between noticing and needing, between attraction and inward compliance.
What makes the image quietly haunting is that nothing outside confirms the transformation. There is no applause, no witness, no overt sign that anything morally meaningful has happened. To an observer, it may look like nothing at all: two people passing on a sidewalk. Yet some of the most consequential movements of the soul are legible only from within. The old script tries to begin; it does not complete itself. The old claim of inevitability rises; it fails to persuade. The self, once accustomed to obeying a certain kind of gravity, now continues forward under its own recovered weight.
Confessions to the Empty Chair — It No Longer Felt The Same captures the moment when temptation loses some of its mythology. The same world remains. The same beauty remains. The same possibility remains. But a person is no longer enthralled in the same way. That does not mean the struggle is over. It means the lie of inevitability has started to break. And once that lie breaks, the soul begins to remember that transformation is not always loud. Sometimes it is simply this: the old pull is still there, but it no longer feels like the final word.
Angry protests, police policy and provocation
The number of participants of revolutionary May 1st demo was on the evening in different counts between 12 000 and 15 000. Clearly noticeable in times of crisis, and consequently was more brazen social wealth redistribution the anger of the participants.
Incompletely documented cases include at least 136 injured demonstration participants. Of these, more than 50 people in hospital in part because of severe head injuries treated. ...
erstermai.nostate.net/
Ort: Berlin Köpenick, Kreuzberg