Shorts Are Wrong
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Shorts Are Wrong
Mike Topp“Mike Topp’s irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature.” — Andrei Codrescu
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“Just when I think Mike Topp’s poems are funny, they’re wise. Just when I think they’re wise, they’re bad. Just when I think they’re bad, they’re great. Mike Topp’s book is exactly like the world.” — Eileen Myles
“Constantly mistaken for an Italian underwear model, or a beerhall humorist, Mike Topp is, in fact, one of the most gifted Surrealzing writers, and a Taoist immortal.” — SparrowNew Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty
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“The project: to rescue ‘communism’ from its own disrepute. Once invoked as the liberation of work through mankind’s collective creation, communism has instead stifled humanity. We who see in communism the liberation of both collective and individual possibilities must reverse that regimentation of thought and desire which terminates the individual….”
Thus begins the extraordinary collaboration between Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri, written at dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the crushing of the autonomous movements of the previous decade. Setting out Guattari and Negri diagnose with incisive prescience transformations of the global economy and theorize new forms of alliance and organization: mutant machines of subjectivation and social movement.
Prefiguring his collaboration with Michael Hardt, Negri and Guattari enact a singular hybridization of political and philosophical traditions, brining together psychiatry, political analysis, semiotics, aesthetics, and philosophy. Against the workings of an increasingly integrated world capitalism, they raise the banners of singularity, autonomy, and freedom to search out new routes for subversion....
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From infantile narcolepsy to the illusion of movement in speed, Virilio examines the “aesthetics” of disappearanceÑ in film, politics, war, the philosophy of subjectivity, and elsewhere.
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Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories – such as “the people” – that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of “multitude,” elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of “people,” favored by classical political philosophy. Hobbes, who detested the notion of multitude, defined it as shunning political unity, resisting authority, and never entering into lasting agreements. “When they rebel against the state,” Hobbes wrote, “the citizens are the multitude against the people.” But the multitude isn’t just a negative notion, it is a rich concept that allows us to examine anew plural experiences and forms of nonrepresentative democracy. Drawing from philosophy of language, political economics, and ethics, Virno shows that being foreign, “not-feeling-at-home-anywhere,” is a condition that forces the multitude to place its trust in the intellect....
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Dreamscapes
Edited by Ron Kolm, Jennifer Ross and Paul MeyersDreamscapes is edited Ron Kolm, Jennifer Ross and Paul Meyers, members of the staff of Posman Books in Grand Central Station in New York City. Dreamscapes features work that attempts to delineate the myths that arise from even the most concrete depictions of place; New York City, Vietnam, etc. The first issue includes poems and texts by Sudie Nostrand, Michael Lindgren, Christine Calvo, Nhi Chung, Richard Rogers and Carol Wierzbicki, and artwork by Melissa DeCaprio and Prisanee Suwanwatana.
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