P.F. Bardo — Clandestine Archives

Notes on fatigue

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I. Fatigue is not a state. It is a territory. An entire country lives there without knowing it.

II. We are told that fatigue is personal. That we should “take care of ourselves.” Meditate. Do yoga. Drink water. Sleep more.

Collage No. 2 — Ghost archive

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This collage simulates an altered administrative document — a form photocopied too many times, stamped by imaginary bureaucracies, annotated by unknown hands.

The ghost archive is a document without origin and without destination. It proves nothing. It attests to nothing. It simply exists, as a trace of something that may never have occurred.

Stalker: the Zone is everywhere

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Room of desires

At the center of the Zone, there is a room that grants the deepest desires. Not the ones you articulate — the ones you truly carry, buried beneath declarations and postures.

That is why no one enters.

The walls still speak

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The walls still speak when mouths close shut.

Beneath the fresh paint, beneath the plaster of renovations, there are sentences that wait.

They do not ask to be read. They demand to be heard.

The city sleeps in its own noise. The neons say buy and the walls reply burn.

La Haine, twenty years after the concrete

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You rewatch La Haine and nothing has changed.

No — it’s worse. Everything has changed, but in the wrong direction. Kassovitz’s film, in 1995, had the brutality of an observation. Thirty years later, the observation has become a fulfilled prophecy, and the prophecy has become daily scenery.

Collage No. 1 — Permanent spectacle

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Materials: advertising screenshots, digitized newspaper fragments, degraded photocopy textures.

This collage is a détournement exercise in the situationist sense — taking the images of spectacle and turning them against itself. The faces are erased because in spectacle, faces are merely surfaces. The texts are illegible because in spectacle, words are merely noise.

Inventory of silences

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The silence of the worker who no longer says no.

The silence of the teacher who no longer corrects the lies in the textbook.

The silence of the journalist who knows but does not publish.

The silence of the river beneath the concrete.

Against clarity

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

They ask us to be clear. They ask us to be legible. They ask us to be transparent.

Clarity has become an injunction. Transparency, a police force. Opacity, a crime.

I. Transparency is a trap

When power says “transparency,” it means: show yourselves. When power says “legibility,” it means: make yourselves predictable. When power says “clarity,” it means: stop escaping us.

Zine Zero — Tracts from the void

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Zine Zero

First ghost print run. 24 pages.

This zine gathers poems, political fragments and collages produced between 2024 and 2025. It was composed like a leaflet: to be photocopied, folded, distributed, forgotten, found again.

8 unpublished poems
3 political fragments
5 full-page collages
1 manifesto-afterword

Format

Printable PDF. A5 format. Black and white. Designed to be printed double-sided and folded.

About

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Who speaks here?

Nobody. Everybody.

Palmiro F. Bardo is a name without a face. A signature affixed to texts that belong to no one — or rather, that belong to whoever reads them, copies them, transforms them.

No biography. No photo. No CV. No social media. No TED talk. No optimized newsletter.

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Messages are read. Replies are not guaranteed. Courtesy is appreciated. Proposals for “brand collaboration” and “monetization opportunities” will be ignored with profound joy.

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P.F. Bardo — Clandestine Archives

Notes on fatigue

Collage No. 2 — Ghost archive

Stalker: the Zone is everywhere

The Room of desires

The walls still speak

La Haine, twenty years after the concrete

Collage No. 1 — Permanent spectacle

Inventory of silences

Against clarity

I. Transparency is a trap

Zine Zero — Tracts from the void

Zine Zero

Contents

Format

About

Who speaks here?

Contact

Correspondence

License

Creative Commons Attribution — ShareAlike 4.0 International

You are free to:

Under the following terms:

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