{"id":1321,"date":"2026-03-08T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/?page_id=1321"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:55:30","slug":"die-brigade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/die-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Brigade<\/em> is a paranoid and poetic rant against an imaginary totalitarian system, the <em>Anti-Everything Brigade<\/em> (BTD), an allegory of the oppressive forces\u2014police, capitalism, normativity\u2014that stifle freedom, drugs, art, and love. Inspired by Artaud, Miller, and Burroughs, the text mixes hallucinations (explosive syringes, horses with severed fingers), subversive slogans (\u201cBurn the money!\u201d, \u201cDon&#8217;t vote!\u201d), and calls to revolt (\u201cTake to the soul&#8217;s underground!\u201d). Between cyberpunk satire and beat manifesto, it denounces a sanitized world where the <em>Brigade<\/em> controls even dreams, opposing its binary logic (\u201cNo beginning, no end\u201d) with madness as the ultimate resistance. References to jazz, peyote, and dead junkies make it a disenchanted tribute to counterculture, while the Arabic at the end and the incantatory repetitions reinforce its ritualistic and desperate nature. The fight is lost before it begins, but the cry persists: \u201cNothing but an appearance&#8230;\u201d and the promise of an eternal new beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brigade is a paranoid and poetic rant against an imaginary totalitarian system, the Anti-Everything Brigade (BTD), an allegory of the oppressive forces\u2014police, capitalism, normativity\u2014that stifle freedom, drugs, art, and love. Inspired by Artaud, Miller, and Burroughs, the text mixes hallucinations (explosive syringes, horses with severed fingers), subversive slogans (\u201cBurn the money!\u201d, \u201cDon&#8217;t vote!\u201d), and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/die-brigade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Brigade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","fr","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1321\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrick-dufray.eurosof.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}