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The Orange Press

@woid.bsky.social
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My name is Paul Werner and my paintings have footnotes. Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973. Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999. Pronouns: Dr., PhD. theorangepress.substack.com

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yeah, usually they stick graffiti on the monument at the Place de la République nearby, it's a better place to squat. Here's some magnificent examples from 2016:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Liberty on the Barricades [Discuss] The prestigious École du Louvre, one of the major elite educational institutions in France, dedicated to the formation of a cadre of art historians, has gone on strike. Could art critics be next? Dream on.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
YESS! That's my old high-school, the snootiest of the snoot! Macron, tu es foutu! Henri IV est dans la rue !
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Fable of AI At the time when Braque and Picasso were producing their Cubist collages (moving from Analytic to Synthetic), a sycophantic hanger-on noticed they were both spending an inordinate amount of time duplicating the patterns of wallpaper.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kindertotenbilder #1a
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hanna Arendt makes a similar point (On revolution):
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's some weap...I mean, "meaningful contribution to the discourse." (Still needs a bit of re-editing): theorangepress.substack.com/p/fe70b418-1...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An unfortunate choice of words...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mamdani gets it theorangepress.substack.com/p/mamdani-ge...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
youtu.be/YzSMFWKCHhg?...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Derrida explains it all! That's not really a "p," it's an "n" with an extended leg, the "pas" of transgression, etc.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You mean the artwork that shows the punishment that awaits those who protect sexual predators?
Aelfgyva assaulted, from the Bayeux Tapestry
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"pill bugs, sow bugs, roly-poly bugs, wood lice, chucky pig, monkey pea, cheese log, daddy granfer, granny grunter."
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I like this one. It was requested by a French editor under the naive impression that I would use my position, like all the other contributors, to denounce the vulgarity of museum-goers rather than the elitism of museum administrators under Capitalism. Never heard from the editor again. Boo-hoo.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1. There's an interesting switch in the first decades of printing. Printers like Jenson, who had 1st specialized in *luxury* printed books like the one below from my own collection, complete with illuminated initial, end up producing cheap editions for the universities, etc.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Nazi term is "Reibpartie," "cleaning squad:
Viennese Jews forced to clean the streets following the Anschluss (1938)
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you can build housing under Capitalism, then housing remains expensive anyhow.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That one wouldn't work very well. It would cause considerable pain as the blade is placed too low and not sufficiently weighted to accelerate properly on release. Eh, what the hell...
Possibly the only surviving example of a guillotine from the French Revolution.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Zo!?" You must be confusing Zohran with the nineteenth-century satirist Zo d'Axa:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
[Sigh.] Here we go again.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Nada nuevo." Is there a problem?
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wake up and smell the coffee. It's been brewing for 150 years. www.academia.edu/43376218/The...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Uh-oh.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
On July 22, 1789 in Paris, the Minister of Finance Joseph Foulon--"a scoundrel; but of unmeasured wealth” according to Carlyle--was being led to prison under the protection of the "progressive" bourgeois authorities. He never made it:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Well gol-darn shucks. (Some MAGA-brained slop from Hillsdale, uh "College.")
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A great guy. I wrote an obituary: theorangepress.com/woid/woid20/...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I first cut my paleographer's teeth on a ms. called the "Liber Scintillarum." Naturally my first step was to check the meaning of the title. I found a directive from an abbot encouraging the monks to step outside the refectory to produce their scintillas after a hearty meal of beans.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"What about dinner? - Leave me alone, I'm reading Marx." Jossot, in the French Anarchist journal "L'Assiette au Beurre," 1906.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The OL [Original Luigi] theorangepress.substack.com/p/the-ol
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The OG:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Seen in Rome:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You mean this one?
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I was in Rome today, and standing in front of Michelangelo's Moses. A dark-skinned woman in a hijab turned to me and asked, "why does he have horns on his head?" So I explained that the Christian (Vulgate) translation of the Bible misreads the Hebrew "rays of light" for "horns."
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Part of the procedure was to take all images of the perp. and disfigure them. I've seen Roman statues that looked suspiciously like a Picasso. Y'all have fun with this.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not likely
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Polanski's not, at any rate...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Problem solved:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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