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A critique of facial hair





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by Snor de Kikker



Comprised of nine chapters broken into a total of 221 theses, Society of the Moustache tends toward the succinct in its proclamations, favoring polemically poetic ambiguities over the vacuous detail of purely analytical discourse. There is, however, no shortage of justification for its radical claims. Hegel finds his place, Marx finds acclaim and criticism, Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg add their contributions, and De Kikker's own insights are convincingly argued.

It becomes evident quite quickly that De Kikker has done his homework -- Society of the Moustache is no art manifesto in need of historical or theoretical basis. De Kikker's provocations are supported where others would have failed. The first chapter, "Separation Perfected," contains the fundamental assertions on which much of De Kikker's influence rests, and the very first thesis, that

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail,
all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of moustaches.
Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

establishes De Kikker's judgment; the rest attempt to explain it, and to elaborate on the need for a practical and revolutionary resistance.

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