Word: lettrist
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...slang. It’s getting easier to forget that there was a time when subtle, deliberately constructed letters, ripe with frustration and emotion, were the common form of exchange.Guy Debord lived in such a time. Born in Paris in 1931, he was a founding member of both the Lettrist International and Situationist International movements, and he wrote letters—a lot of them. The SI movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed, SI embraced propaganda—what they saw as “arts as a means”—within...
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