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  October 16, 2009 Keith Carter _______________________ The Book Of Pleasures Raoul Vaneigem The long dark night of trade is all the illumination our inhuman history has ever known. It will lift as life dawns. Death stares at our passions and we mute them; we mesh our desires with what is inimical to life; and we base the greater part o f existence on the bloody search for profit and power. We have been doing it for centuries and we have had enough. We have had enough of revolutions dyed in blood by intellectuals. Violence too is changing sides. Survival, going cheap these days in what is left of the exchange market, is the everyday production of misery, a totalitarian industry. It too is in what you call crisis, in fact the death spasm of this whole civilisation. The only human thing this society based on commerce has made is the mould cast in parody of itself, which serves to propagate it world-wide. The fragmentation that exchange value imposes on life can only tolerate fragmented people, embryos shrivelling in society's incubators, creatures never to be masters of themselves, but slaves. Once cloaked in divinity, then fleshed in ideology, power is now revealed in its bare bones: Economics. If this carries all the bets, the game from now on must go against us. Is it true that life makes sense because of death? Or that we have energy in order to work? That sooner or later judgement is passed on everything either by gods or men or history? That everyone has to pay in the end? For one reason or another, or even for no reason? Or is it maybe that existence is precious because nobody exists except behind "I must work" identities? All in all, do authority and money really regulate how lovers kiss or the taste for wine, or your dreams, or the smell of thyme on a mountainside, since they govem what they cost? If it is and they do, then the world is upside down, and I want to set it right....(more) _______________________ Constantine Manos 12 _______________________ steve dalachinsky - (evan parker @ the stone 10/13/09) courtesy of Jim Leftwich textimagepoem dots set 1 (w/ cyril baptiste) disconnecting the dots the idea is to disconnect the dots deep/throat the gong-a-limbs thru scat-loops echoing metals melding of fractions / simultaneous monologues inter-national enveloping esthetic perhaps the shaking off of parallels slight vibration & busy percussion paddle-odium minor pandemonium moan-ium shades of scrape-forge neo-generated messticuffs hot blood mingling with cool reserve tenorocities & tambourine dance like a horde of mad cicadas rhythmic pitted against arrhythmic multiples & there go those birds again meeting dense air with their clatter & chatter blood that flows thru the dreamer’s cheeks disembodied voices made whole thru the berimbau’s shimmer & here we all are froze in tropics optical allusions high above the bottom of the trees thunder crunched brain-things brew web transparencies ...(more) _______________________ "Bubble" Keith Carter _______________________ Barbara Ehrenreich – a Situationist The Situationist reviews Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America _______________________ Transcript "... a bi-monthly review of books and writing from around Europe. Its aim is to promote quality literature written in the 'smaller' languages and to give wider circulation to material from small-language literary publications through the medium of English, French and German. Transcript is published by Literature Across Frontiers, the European programme for literary exchange and policy debate, with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union. Literature Across Frontiers operates through partnership with a network of literature and translation organisations." _______________________ Reading the World Conversation Series Oct. 6 2009 Three Percent Video is now up from our Reading the World Conversation Series event with the acclaimed French-to-English translator Charlotte Mandell. It’s in seven parts _______________________ Why We Need a New History of Exploration Lewis and Clark, Alexander von Humboldt, and the explorer in American culture Michael F. Robinson common-place October 2009 _______________________ Constantine Manos _______________________ Under Arcturus Ilpo Tiihonen translated by Herbert Lomas books from finland Even in autumn, at the very beginning, the omens were all bad: ‘Oh who can make a start with death, after the ice we’ve had?’ But though the witches warned and spat, they tackled their first snow-weather, and hand in hand and side by side, huddled close together. Leaves had wafted, light and yellow, in the damned dirt to lure us, but the spruce trees stood, with spruce you see the height ot the night, the way to Arcturus. ...(more) permanent link

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