[matilda] Matilda logos...

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Now I understand why  "The Old Mole" (or "El Viejo Topo")  is the name
of a Spanish  cultural zine
publishing original articles and translations by writers such as Naomi
Klein. Same etimology as you explain i suppose.
I like it.


http://www.revistasculturales.com/verRevista.php?cod=100
> 
> 
>> A legendary magazine that began in the middle of the 70’s, since 
>> December 1993, El Viejo Topo has begun its second stage which, like
>>  the first, attempts to renew from a critical point of view a
>> panorama that contains the economical, the social, the cultural,
>> the scientific, power and its negation, politics and thought.
>> Inside El Viejo Topo there is room for everything that is
>> disturbing, disquieting and annoying, which provokes thought and,
>> consequently, action in a world that doesn’t exactly stand out for
>> its sense of justice, equality, solidarity and freedom.
> 

In French:

Titre : El Viejo Topo
Région : Europe
Pays : Espagne
Ville : Barcelone
Langue(s) : espagnol
Periodicité : bimestriel
Genre : culturel
Diffusion (exemplaires) : 14 000
Le premier numéro de "La Vieille Taupe" est paru en 1976, après avoir
bataillé contre la censure franquiste. Sa publication cessa en 1982,
avant de reprendre en 1993. Ce magazine bimestriel, politiquement ancré
à gauche, propose de longs articles de réflexion, souvent militants, qui
offrent un panorama critique de l'actualité politique, économique,
sociale et culturelle.

El Viejo Topo est publié par les éditions Intervención Cultural, un
groupe indépendant qui publie également la revue littéraire Quimera. Le
magazine s'adresse à un public de professeurs, de cadres politiques et
de jeunes appartenant au mouvement altermondialiste.

From
http://www.courrierinternational.com/planetepresse/planeteP_notule.asp?not_id=4667


gavin at cyber-rights.net wrote:

> I like the logos... nice acronym.
> 
> I'll warn you now, I'm about to go a bit theory. But bear with me, 
> okay?
> 
> I've had this wacky idea that 'Matilda' would be a friendly looking 
> mole, and maybe I'll just try and paint this on one of the internal 
> walls or something but...there's this image Marx uses of 'the old 
> mole,' which lots of anti-authoritarians in (what became) the global 
> justice movement pick up on. Negri explains it better than I could in
>  'Empire':
> 
> "Marx tried to understand the continuity of the cycle of proletarian 
> struggles that were emerging in nineteenth-century Europe in terms of
>  a mole and its subterranean tunnels. Marx's mole would surface in 
> times of open class conflict and then retreat underground again-not 
> to hibernate passively but to burrow its tunnels, moving along with 
> the times, pushing forward with history so that when the time was 
> right (1830, 1848, 1870), it would spring to the surface again. "Well
>  grubbed old mole."
> 
> Lots of people pick up on this image of the mole. in the 1930s George
>  Bataille in writing some (very)proto-Situationist stuff uses this 
> image of the mole to draw his Surrealist-influenced picture of an 
> autonomous revolt from below (in his essay "The Old Mole and The 
> Prefix Sur in the words Surhomme and Surrealist"), and in the early 
> 70s Sergio Bologna explains the new networks and movements of 
> resistance in the 1970s Italian Autonomia movement in terms of new 
> kind of organising without heirachy, in his article, "A Tribe of 
> Moles." In fact, approproiately enough for our Matilda, he's trying 
> to explain in that article the appearance of the phenomenon of 
> squatted social centres which started with Autonomy in Italy.
> 
> So, yeah, France 1968, Genoa, Seattle, Prague, J18...They're all 
> eruptions of the old mole. And I kind of think of the Sheffield G8 
> actions as an appearance of the old mole, too. Where a lot of 
> disparate threads have come together and worked really well, and the 
> Matilda is the fruit of that. So I think the mole thing is really 
> appropriate, and ties us nicely in to this historical image of revolt
>  and our way of organising. A sort of 'subterranean' anti- 
> authoritarian lineage, if you'll pardon the pun.
> 
> I was thinking at least a nice painted mural of a mole and a few 
> brief quotes from Marx, Bataille, Bologna etc to explain the image 
> might be a nice touch to the place, anyway. Maybe just on a wall 
> somewhere if people think having a mole in the logo is a bit too 
> weird.
> 
> 
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