ISSUE 10 | NOV 2011
OCCUPATIONS
Debbie Hu
To Heartbreak Hotel
Burlesque of theory - the page - IN LINCOLN NO SAN ANTONIO NO I WAS - I AM BOOKING MYSELF A VACATION IN THE HEARTBREAK HOTEL. / i have the money to do so. - soundproof walls, of course, to keep in the typewriting sounds - an aquarium to flounder in - APPENDIX on GOOD WRITING
Austin Gross
On “Boredom is Counter-Revolutionary”
Two defenses of boredom - Surrealist heritage on the left - Celibacy epidemic - What would be desire’s programme? Today - An avant-garde of precarity - Two cures - What kind of pause is an occupation? - Where sex is concerned, the « premature »
Adam Weg
Appendix: People’s Microphone
Sam Feldman
Whose Side Are They On?
two American ideals of free speech - affinity groups and movementlets - a net neutrality of the public domain - « the legitimacy of the government does not matter » - the pace of progress - that the content of a festival could be its presentation
Cat Pierro
Divertissement
Boredom is caused by - proof of his actual nothingness - « a dreadful desert island » - a victim of custom - « infinitely removed from the edge » - a final consistent base to build a tower that reaches to infinity - like a vacuum
Rico Altman-Merino
Tseva Adom: Terrorism and Its Anxiety
1950s 1948 1997 200 2400 1900 - 2001 (2000-2005) 10000 2008-2009 300 2007 21 3 - IDF 2002 2007 15 2005 30 - 70% 40% 2001 44% 11 ADHD 33% 20% PTSD - Empathies are to be balanced - That is, can violence be dwelt on?
David Richter
Bouncing into Graceland: The Coordinates of Musical Expression
the authentication of musical experience - middle-class discontent and self-loathing - a Jungian mystical approach mediated by futuristic video-game imagery - eucharist for the society of the spectacle - an American essence eminently ethnic in nature - « the days of miracles and wonder »
Michael Kinnucan
Early Retirement: An Essay on Lear
« I will not die with you » - the « open night » whose tyranny... - what success might mean to the dying - a Fool's take on eschatology - Faced with the horror of betrayal, Edgar refuses to be tragic. Or at any rate he tries. - a duty with no touch of the sublime
Avi Garelick
For the Day That Is All Sabbath
kinetics - when the dust settles on history - for what reason must you allow your cattle to rest - General Strike - the inwardness and outwardness of cessation
Austin Gross
(Midtro)
Earl McCabe
Awk-upy: Left Love and Shame
a strange dance in DC - Žižek's word of caution - on the inside again - my suspicious involvement in the union - « I am guilty of resenting the masses » - lives on the left have felt misshapen and tenuous - resignation in the awkward