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Devin Johnston, contributor
Suggested Reading Inside Out: An Autobiography, by Robert Adamson Music & Suicide, by Jeff Clark Fathom, by Andrew Joron
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Vienna Postcard 3 — February 25, 2004
Bemerkungen The doors to the Streetcars & the U-Bahns have to be opened manually; that is, you have to pull a lever or push a button. They won’t open automatically at every stop. There’s a situation on public transportation in which older women, usually laden with bags of stuff, gruffly push their way to the […]
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Modern Times (for Charlie Chaplin)
The Conveyances How be attentive to this stream of bolts while breasts, buttons, fire hydrants wrench loose in the attention? The work is the tension, holding to one thing repeated down the line. But it’s the belt that moves, not these bodies disappeared in the conveyances: anything tightened trembles. Lunch Hunger juts perpendicular to the […]
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Repetition/Variation: Theory Set for Language and Music
The tape was cued to a suite, the suite was skewed from a tremor in the ground, the ground was pried from a landfill near the quarry, the quarry hunted for a strand of species not in language, language is in advancement of itself, itself a loop but not tape that accrues meanings as it […]
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Ken Jacobs’ Handout for the 04.24.03 Interview
Von Stroheim’s Greed Never a truer, more iconic image has been put on film than the end of Von Stroheim’s Greed, 1925. Two men, former friends but now bitter enemies, in Death Valley with no water, a dead mule and a dead horse and no chance of rescue; the sun like the blazing eye of […]
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An Interview with Ken Jacobs
This interview was conducted by Brian Price & Michelle Dent on March 24, 2003 at Cantor Film Center, NYU. It has been edited for purposes of integrity & continuity. On the night following the 75th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, where Michael Moore denounced George W. Bush for starting an unjust war in Iraq, and […]
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03.06.04
We’ve posted the second of Peter O’Leary’s Vienna Postcards. It’s just like being there, kind of, but without the jet-lag. Next week we’ll have the Ken Jacobs interview, Peter’s next installment, & more. Quick/short shout to Penelope & Bruce. Thanks.
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Vienna Postcard 2 — February 17, 2004
Much as Vienna is a city that leans heavily on its past — especially in its Baroque & Mozartian epochs — such that it can feel like a changeless place, even morbidly so (This, I feel, is the feeling Freud so momentously autopsied, revealing swarms of thriving, if perverse, bacterial life in the corpse of […]