Rêvenance: A Zine of Hauntings from Underground Histories. Issue 10

Rêvenance: A  Zine of Hauntings From Underground Histories is the flagship journal of the Revenant Editions series, dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and other countercultures. It includes essays, translations, and many experimental forms of historical writing and research that connect those traditions to continuing radical communities today.

Main themes in Issue #10: Revenant Camaraderie, the Jeunes-France/Bouzingo & Frenetic Romanticists carrying daggers, the Decadent-Symbolist community, dance, & the passing of generations.

This issue contains two mini-features, one on the concept of Revenant Camaraderie (introduced here in a long essay by Olchar E. Lindsann) and one on the Frenetic Romanticist community in Paris, especially their predilection for carrying daggers as a sign of solidarity – and announcing an exciting new development in the re-discovery of the Boozing group. The artist Gavarni shows us the latter as well as a glimpse of the gender-bending Débardeur subculture of the 1830s-40s. Camaraderie takes the form here of transgenerational collaborations between the living and the dead. A number of living artists collaborate with their dead friends, appropriately enough including those of the Decadent movement, and obituaries of Alastair Brotchie and Peter Lamborn Wilson extend the idea. Michael Helsem explicates the avant-Volapük con-lang experiments of Vielé-Griffin. An article on noise and dance by Germaine Albert-Birot and a poem by Sa-Carniero represent Modernism, as well as a review of Sakolsky's history of Anarcho-Surrealism.

Featuring:
The Dead: Peters Borel / Judith Gautier / Arthur Rimbaud / Abdullah Cevdet / Gavarni / Stuart Merrill / Su Tung-Po / Mélanie Waldor / Francis Vielé-Griffin / Gustave Morne / Germaine Albert-Birot / Mário De Sa-Carneiro / A.C. / Alfred de Musset / Alastair Brotchie & Peter Lamborn Wilson in Tribute / some dead cop.
& The Living: Carl Alessi / Michael Helsem / pilfering apples / Bradley Lastname / Joh Thomas Allen / Olchar E. Lindsann / Ron Sakolsky in Review / Bosse-de-Nage

34 pgs on folded 8.5”x14”. Sept., A.Da. 105/A.H. 190 (2021)