Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne & The Antemosaic Cosmic Man

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Class Struggle and the Adamic Imagination in Herman
Melville

In Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in
revolt sought a new universal in the working class but
soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil
service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt
found a new universal in what Melville called
“antemosaic” reality, Queequeg, embodied in the
multiracial working class, the “Anacharsis Cloots
deputation,” in radical antithesis to the state.

Herman Melville (1818–1891) came to this perspective
in the feverish production of six novels of the sea,
culminating in Moby Dick, in the 1846–1851 period. As
the whaling ship Pequod was destroyed by Moby Dick,
the Indian harpooner Tashtego nailed a red flag to the
mast, also catching the wing of a sky-hawk, with its
“imperial beak.” Thus Melville connects the red man
with the red flag, pulling down the imperial eagle,...

Blue Line, The

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During the course of running the New York City Marathon, The Blue Line’s narrator finds himself remembering another marathon run years earlier to evade capture after an act of sabotage. He also struggles with the compromises that he has made in the years since then as he decides whether or not to assist an ex-girlfriend in another similar action. A richly detailed novel of moral deliberation, designed to include hundreds of images lining the actual route of the New York City Marathon run.

Punkademics

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Punkademics
Edited by Zack Furness

The basement show in the ivory tower…

In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade ‘zines and three chord songs has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD dissertations, and conversations amongst well-mannered conference panelists. At the same time, the academic ranks have been increasingly infiltrated by professors and graduate students whose educations began not in the classroom, but in the lyric sheets of 7” records and the cramped confines of all-ages shows.

Punkademics explores these varied intersections by giving voice to some of the people who arguably best understand the odd bedfellows of punk and academia. In addition to being one of the first edited collections of scholarly work on punk, it is a timely book that features original essays,...

Occupy Everything!

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Occupy Everything! Reflections on why it’s kicking off everywhere
Ed. Alessio Lunghi & Seth Wheeler

Penned after the 2010 European student unrest and before what is now commonly referred to as the “Arab spring” began to escalate, BBC Newsnight economist Paul Mason’s “20 Reasons Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere” sought to establish an understanding of the motivations behind these globally disparate, yet somehow connected struggles.

What roles do the “graduate with no future,” the “digital native” or the “remainder of capital” play in the current wave of unrest? What are the ideas, ideologies, motivations or demands driving these movements? How is struggle organized and coordinated in the age of memetic politics and viral ad campaigns?

This collection of essays seeks to further explore Paul Mason’s original 20 Reasons in an attempt to better understand our turbulent present.

“A startling insight into the aims, dreams and ideologies of a generation of radicalized youth.” –Paul Mason,...

Sic: International Journal for Communisation

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Sic: International Journal for Communisation
Some information about Sic & Communisation

Sic aims to be the locus for an unfolding of the problematic of
communisation. It comes from the encounter of individuals involved in
various projects in different countries: among these are the journals
Endnotes, published in the UK and the US, Blaumachen in Greece,
Théorie Communiste in France, Riff-Raff in Sweden, and certain more or
less informal theoretical groups in the US (New York and San
Francisco). Each of these projects will continue to exist on their
own. Also participating are various individuals in France, Germany,
and elsewhere, who are involved in other activities and who locate
themselves broadly within the theoretical approach taken here.

Communisation
In the course of the revolutionary struggle, the abolition of the
division of labour, of the State, of exchange, of any kind of
property; the extension of a situation in which everything is freely
available as the unification of human activity,...

The Plastic Factory

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The Plastic Factory
Ron Kolm
“The quintessential short fiction of its time, The Plastic Factory’s minimalist surface sits atop a terse inventory of the inner costs of living outside the professional managerial bullet train, looking through the display windows at the swatch-life, emerging with the antithesis of the yuppie-preppy sensibility. Every phrase glistens with the dull sheen of the bog slime rising all around these characters acting out the anomie of the soul in the Reagan era when the American Dream got hijacked from everyone outside that cozy 1% at the top of the food chain. This is the voice of their prey: listen up!” — Robert Siegle, author of Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency

“From the silence of the industrial countryside, Kolm has written an elegy for time wasted through work. The Plastic Factory accumulates its power through attention to detail and process. The botched life of the narrator takes on a certain sad grandeur.” — Thomas McGonigle,...