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Appropriations - Johan Lagae - "Objects that are dear to him": The colonizer's house and the mise en valeur of the Belgian Congo

Arguing that the pioneering days were over and time had come to guarantee a return on investment, Leplae made a case for the colonizer’s house as the crucial instrument for a successful mise en valeur (exploitation) of the colonized territory of the Belgian Congo. “To colonize the Congo,” Leplae wrote, “it is necessary to make it inhabitable.”
Democratic Republic Of The Congo United States South Africa United Kingdom Bruxelles Capitale Ons Huis
Source: e-flux.com

Britain's SOFT MACHINE Were Restlessly Creative THE DUTCH LESSON Captures Them in Late October 1973

By 1973 Soft Machine already had a long history of playing in Rotterdam, appearing at major festivals such as Hippy Hippy Fair (1967), Kralingen (1970) and AHOY (1971, Phil Howard’s debut), and no less than four times at the city’s most prestigious venue, De Doelen, most recently (in September 1972) on a double bill with Robert Wyatt’s Matching Mole. This time, however, they were booked in a smaller venue, which they filled to capacity at around 400.
Zuid Holland John Marshall Phil Howard Allan Holdsworth Karl Jenkins Bert Boogaard

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