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jim submits:
"Rhizomatic Radio and the Great Stampede"
Ron Sakolsky
Let us conjure up a vision of a Wild Radio Stampede
disrupting the territorialized lines of Authority
artificially drawn in the air surrounding Mother
Earth. The seismic flows of land, sea, and air waves
reconceptualized as rhizomatic possibilities. Let the
leaden segmentary lines imposed by capitofeudalism
explode into detached shimmering lines of flight.
Rampaging sound wave tubers where each stem is itself
a rootstock emitting new roots everywhere along its
sonic path. Unstoppable drifting planetary waves of
radio sound laughing in the sedentary face of the
dominant mediacracy's uniformity. Immersion then
becomes a metaphor not for entrapment, but for escape
as receiver and producer become one in an oceanic roar
sounding in its composite signal like a combination of
Hiroshi Yokoi's 24 hour FM radio transmissions in
Japan programmed according to tidal patterns and
Tetsuo Kogawa's micropower radio broadcasts, inspired
by the radio experiments in "direct speech" of the
Italian Autonomists. The Autonomist trick of The
Serpent of Desire Eating Its Own Tail as performed by
Felix Guattari and the Schizzes, a "molecular
revolution" on a mixtape.
"A Road Map to Where?"
Edward Said
Early in May, on his visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, Colin Powell met with Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian Prime Minister, and separately with a small group of civil society activists, including Hanan Ashrawi and Mostapha Barghuti. According to Barghuti, Powell expressed surprise and mild consternation at the computerised maps of the settlements, the eight-metre-high wall, and the dozens of Israeli Army checkpoints that have made life so difficult and the future so bleak for Palestinians.
"The Failure of Christianity"
Emma Goldman
First published in April 1913, in the Mother Earth
journal.
Conceptions and words that have long ago lost their
original meaning continue through centuries to
dominate mankind. Especially is this true if these
conceptions have become a common-place, if they have
been instilled in our beings from our infancy as great
and irrefutable verities. The average mind is easily
content with inherited and acquired things, or with
the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much
easier to imitate than to create.
Anonymous Comrade submits:
"The Man Who Wasn't There"
John Chuckman, June 11, 2003
I read something recently about America's Middle East initiative, the "road map," offering Bush the chance for greatness. Verbal excess like that demands a realistic discussion of the prospects.
"Sex, Race and Class"
Selma James
There has been enough confusion generated when sex, race and class have confronted each other as separate and even conflicting entities. That they are separate entities is self-evident. That they have proven themselves to be not separate, inseparable, is harder to discern. Yet if sex and race are pulled away from class, virtually all that remains is the truncated, provincial, sectarian politics of the white male metropolitan Left. I hope to show in barest outline, first, that the working class movement is something other than that Left have ever envisioned it to be. Second, locked within the contradiction between the discrete entity of sex or race and the totality of class is the greatest deterrent to working class power and at the same time the creative energy to achieve that power.
"Historicizing the Spontaneous Revolution:
Anarchism
and the Spatial Politics of Postmodernism"
Nicholas Spencer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wendell V. Harris, Jeffrey T. Nealon, Colin Falck,
Camille Paglia, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Donald Morton --
these are just some of the many writers who have
pronounced the demise of postmodern and/or
poststructuralist thought. It seems that the regime of
the sign and discourse analysis has given way to
materialist critique and cultural studies, and while
some people may not perceive any essential antinomy
between discourse and materialism, many others welcome
these developments as finally exposing the faddish and
pretentious nature of postmodernism. As the heady
self-referentialism of postmodern culture continues, a
cooling of academic interest may enable scholars to
examine the traditions and influences relevant to
postmodernism's career more clearly.
Geneva03 submits:
The following is an agreed statement of the Geneva03 Autonomous Media Collective who assembled and produced the live stream in recent days.
Geneva03: the Bubble Bursts
Locked away in their lakeside resort, the G8 must reckon once again with their own abject failure. Met by demonstrations and the diffuse violence produced by systemic crisis, they have no answers except escalations of that violence. That is the same as no answer at all. Their opponents, meanwhile, have no programme but to celebrate the G8's eclipse.
Anonymous Comrade writes:
"The Eros Effect"
An Interview with George Katsiaficas
George Katsaficas is a professor of Humanities and Social Studies at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. In 2001 he spent time reasearching the Kwangju uprising in South Korea. He is the editor of New Political Science and the author of several books including The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life and Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. He has also edited several books, most recently The Battle for Seattle. A close friend of Herbert Marcuse, Katsiaficas runs the website ErosEffect.com.
RAAN came into contact with Katsiaficas mostly because of his book The Subversion of Politics, which dealt in part with the German Autonomen and Italian Autonomia. After a few exchanges of dialogue, RAAN was able to conduct this interview, in which they have tried to hit on some practical solutions to common problems within the anti-authoritarian movement. This interview originally appeared in the first issue of Praxis, journal of the Red & Anarchist Action Network (Summer, 2003).
Anonymous Comrade submits:
"Banality, Bombast, and Blood"
John Chuckman
The saga of America's Private Lynch, no matter what the details of her movie-set escape prove to be, adds only banality to needless bloodshed in Iraq.
Another young American woman, Marla Ruzicka, went largely ignored. Ms. Ruzicka runs a non-profit organization that works to make accurate counts of a war's civilian dead. It is small wonder Ms. Ruzicka is not given the same coverage as Private Lynch, since, based upon detailed field work in Iraq, she says that between five and ten thousand civilians were killed.
Bill Not Bored writes:
A Monumental Bad Joke
or, Lou Reed laughs all the way to the bank
What does it take to make famously stone-faced rocker Lou Reed crack a smile? Playing the blues for the first time, says Wim Wenders, director of "The Soul of a Man," the first installment in Martin Scorsese's seven-film series on the blues which premiered Friday at the Cannes Film Festival. Reed joined Beck, Bonnie Raitt and Nick Cave in interpreting the songs of Mississippi blues legend Skip James. "For Lou, it was so much fun, I am proud to announce he actually laughed," Wenders quipped. "And we have it on tape -- no photographer has ever captured him smiling on film." -- New York Daily News, 25 May 2003.
In other words, Lou Reed is a completely depraved pervert and pathetic death dwarf and everything else you want to think he is. On top of that he's a liar, a wasted talent, an artist continually in flux, and a huckster selling pounds of his own flesh. A panderer . . . . Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock 'n' roll to smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, stumblebum passivity, and suicide, and then proceeded to belie all his achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing their punch. -- Lester Bangs, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves, or How I Slugged it out with Lou Reed and Stayed Awake," 1975.
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