Out of Print
3 February 2008
Vincent Meessen
ABSTRACT
Meeting Jean Ducat.

Potential Estate will soon meet Jean Ducat (born 1922) the chairman-founder of the Association Belgian American Heritage and co-founder of the society Nos cousins d’Amérique. As a historian, he travelled no less than 14 times to research the history of Belgian migrants.


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Pourbusstraat 5, B-2000 Antwerpen - BELGIUM +32(0)3.226.06.30
IF IT’S TUESDAY, IT STILL MUST BE BELGIUM (1987)

It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium was reworked in 1987 as a made-for-TV movie, titled If It’s Tuesday, It Still Must be Belgium.

When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand. (All Movie Guide)

When performing his personnal researches, he mopped 50.000 biographies regarding the belgian emigrants who left for America during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. He largely contributed to the belgian emigration history by digging the known journey of these emigrants’families. In his researches, he is only considering the original documents or authentified copies, whose he found in Belgium as well as in America.

He authored monographies about the following belgian settlements:

- From Grez-Doiceau to Wisconsin, (coll.), Bruxelles, 1986. (Out of Print).
- Un pays de Charleroi en Armérique, Charleroi, 1990. (Out of Print).
- Lorraine belge en Amérique, Biesme, 1992. (Out of Print).
- Arlonais fondateurs de Belgium-Wisconsin, histoire, Éd. Luxembourg Belge en Amérique, Biesme, 1992.
- De Semois en Indiana, Biesme, 1992. (Out of Print).
- Namurois au Nouveau Monde, chez l’auteur, Biesme, 1995.
- Passagers belges partis vers l’Amérique 1833-1855, Biesme, 1998.
- Passagers belges partis vers l’Amérique 1856, Biesme, 1998. (Out of Print).
- Brabançons au Nouveau Monde, Biesme, 2000.
- Carolorégiens au Nouveau Monde, Biesme, 2000.
- Luxembourgeois Ardenne-Arlon-Gaume, Biesme, 2002.


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Indiani Metropolitani

Nous pouvons tous entrer dans un devenir-noir, dans un devenir-indien, ce qui fut d’ailleurs justement l’intuition humoristique et géniale des Indiens Métropolitains à Rome. (...) Indiani metropolitani est le nom adopté par des groupes d’étudiants et de jeunes travailleurs précaires du Mouvement de 1977 en Italie, point culminant du mouvement de l’Autonomia. Le nom se réfère au fait que ces groupes s’autodéfinissaient comme les habitants d’une sorte de "réserve culturelle" par rapport à l’ordre établi (du travail). Les Indiani metropolitani ont surtout existé à Rome où ils organisèrent des performances au printemps de 1977, et à Bologne, où se forma le groupe analogue Cellule mao-dadaïste. On pourrait dire que ces groupes étaient sous influence situationniste avec une matrice ouvriériste.

Felix Guattari *

in Felix Guattari/Suely Ronik, Micropolitiques, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2007, pp 111 & 475.

* (le titre est de la rédaction)

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Brief Synopsis : The Disappointment : Or, The Force of Credulity is a documentary/musical/fairytale by media artist Brian Springer that explores the legacy of 19th century U.S. anarchism, treasure hunting and spiritualist folk lore through the story of the Springer family’s decades-long search for buried Spanish treasure in the caves of Missouri. The video project grounds the family’s personal history of treasure-hunting into an expanded social/post-colonial context by exploring the repressed histories of a series of atrocities as they reappear transfigured, displaced and disguised in contemporary notions of "discovery." The Disappointment places pressure not just on notions of documentary truth but also on the contested line between legitimated and non-legitimated ’popular’ knowledges and beliefs.

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