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DON’T MAKE FUN OF OTHERS

Monday, December 16, 2013

Throwing back to our launch-screening a couple of weeks back, one question: did Marina make You cry?
If you didn’t, it’s my obligation to bad taste that I recommend you take some reformatory lessons from the Marina Abravomic Made Me Cry tumblr.  The grandiloquence of empathy will persuade a few milligrams of salt water from the [...]

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NERVE RAG

Monday, September 23, 2013

Though I’m sure many have heard of  (and read from) it, this post goes to Merve Verlag,  mono.kultur’s neighbor during the MISS READ Berlin Art Book Fair.  The quintessential philosopher’s publication since 1970, it has introduced to the intellectually voracious such venerable minds as Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.  In contrast to the stagnancy that usually pervades academia, [...]

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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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CINE-NOISE: A conversation with Ricardo Da Silva

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Ricardo da Silva is a founding member of the film collective CINE-NOISE which he describes as “a variable geometry project involving sound artists and experimental film performers.” Through their work and actualizations the group tries “to bring noise music aesthetics into cinema and cinematics into noise music.” Having initially worked in an independent movie theatre [...]

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Supernatural Strategies…for making a Rock’n'Roll Group.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

The Rock’n’roll group has long mystified and shocked through pageantry, or distaste there of; if ever it even gave a damn. For decades now, this ‘genre’ of Rock’n’roll keeps going, recycling itself or scrapping [nearly] everything and starting again. Like Jazz, rock is everywhere now. Peculiar partnerships are found throughout its history. Social, political [...]

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SLIDESHOWS

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

As part of the recent Institutions by Artists festival in Vancouver, Manystuff’s Charlotte Cheetham has compiled several slideshows on artists, designers and publishers involved in independent publishing, including yours truly and many, many more, all gathered here.

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GIGOLO’S HAND ON A SILK STOCKING

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Writer of amazing texts and books such as ‘Against Interpretation’, ‘Marat/Sade/Artaud’, ‘Illness as Metaphor, and AIDS and its Metaphors’ or the exuberant essay for ‘Story of the Eye’, marvelous book of Georges Batailles. Tea with Thomas Mann, dinner with (Herbert) Marcuse, sex with F, thoughts on books, religion, life and lots were hidden in Susan [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE WHITE REVIEW

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The White Review revives that ancient and venerable tradition of print again: the literary journal – and it does so with style and chuzpe. A savvy and addictive mixture of intellectual rigour and modern pop culture, the Review effortlessly presents theoretical essays, short stories, art criticism, poetry and interviews side by side, all held together [...]

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I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It’s always a nice diversion to pass through McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies every now and then for some challenging thoughts.

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS ACCORDING TO BOB DYLAN

Saturday, December 31, 2011
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