Keepers of the Fire

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Keepers of the Fire

The Strait: Book of Obenabi. His Songs From the pen of Fredy Perlman Black & Red, Detroit. 1988 399 pages, $6 The Strait by Fredy Perlman is a two-volume manuscript remembrance of the world changers. It is the songs and stories of colonization and resistance in what has come to be known as the Great Lakes region of North America as witnessed through the eyes of not only its humans, but animals, trees, and everything living. There are two volumes of the book, with volume one being the story of how things came to be, and volume two being...
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Dark Passage

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Dark Passage

A review of the film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu which records the rapid passing of a man who has been living day to day an impoverished lonely life of drunken stalemate in a decrepit Bucharest apartment. The logic of his decline ends with his death on a trolley in a hospital's operating theatre prep room.
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Unborn Grandsons

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Unborn Grandsons

It seems these masters found themselves caught between the demands of two indispensable and previously harmonious elements of their culture which had lately come into conflict. On the one side they understood, as is the tradition, that knowledge descended strictly through the epochs from named masters to those students they had specially selected as being worthy of it. Knowledge was only passed to the next generation of future masters via the closed conduit of the masters’ lineage. In this way, accession to knowledge reinforced the stability of social hierarchy and the ordering of the temporal universe, the past held...
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Jewel’s Perfect Teeth

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Jewel’s Perfect Teeth

I just finished dancing around my room listening to the 1995 album, Pieces of You, by Jewel, and I feel exhilirated. It was just a year ago that I was finally forced to admit my appreciation of pop music, and less than eleven months since I finally knowingly listened to a Lady Gaga song. Lately I’ve recovered an awe of how great the music was in the ’90s, and it’s on this ground that I’ve been able to return to an old guilty love affair of mine, the debut album of the pop star from Alaska with the crooked...
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How Slogans End

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How Slogans End

“Living or dead, that’s the big question. When you get sleepy, do you go to sleep? Or do you lie awake?” - Cage, “Composition as Process” “If among you there are those who wish to get somewhere, let them leave at any moment.” “If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep” - Cage, “Lecture on Nothing” 1 There is a computer program called the Automatic Insurrectionary Manifesto Generator. AIMG produces this sort of output: What’s needed is not mobilization, and even far less absence, but a putting-into-practice of inoperative crisis, a rejection in all forms of the temporality...
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