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CHIROT ZERO ZINE--ANNOUNCING NEW BLOG
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I have just begun a new blog/zine called Chirot Zero Zine A Heap of Rubble-- Anarkeyology of hand eye ear notations--- http://chirotzerozine.blogspot.com the blog is more exusively concerned than this one with presenting essays, reviews (inc. "bad reviews") , Visual Poetry, Sound Poetry, Event Scores, Manifestos, Manifotofestos, rantin' & raving, rock'roll, music all sorts--by myself and others--if you are interested in being a contributor, please feel free to contact me at david.chirot@gmail.com as with this blog, the arts are investigated as a part of rather than apart from the historical, economic, political actualities of yesterday, today, & tomorrow as with al my blogs-- contributions in any language are welcome
Free Leonard Peltier
The government under pretext of security and progress, liberated us from our land, resources, culture, dignity and future. They violated every treaty they ever made with us. I use the word “liberated” loosely and sarcastically, in the same vein that I view the use of the words “collateral damage” when they kill innocent men, women and children. They describe people defending their homelands as terrorists, savages and hostiles . . . My words reach out to the non-Indian: Look now before it is too late—see what is being done to others in your name and see what destruction you sanction when you say nothing. --Leonard Peltier, Annual Message January 2004 (Leonard Peltier is now serving 31st year as an internationally recognized Political Prisoner of the United States Government)
Injustice Continues: Leonard Peltier Again Denied Parole
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Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'
Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'
The current 'Miss Universe' Dayana Mendoza (formerly Miss Venezuela) and 'Miss America' Crystal Stewart visited US troops stationed in Guantanamo Bay on March 20th, the New York Times reports. Here's Mendoza's account of the visit from her pageant blog last Friday. She says the trip "was a loooot of fun!"
This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience...All the guys from the Army were amazing with us. We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting. We took a ride with the Marines around the land to see the division of Gitmo and Cuba while they were informed us with a little bit of history.
The water in Guantánamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour. We went to the glass beach, and realized the name of it comes from the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the sun. That day we met a beautiful lady named Rebeca who does wonders with the glasses from the beach. She creates jewelry with it and of course I bought a necklace from her that will remind me of Guantánamo Bay :) I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.
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In a recent BBC documentary on "objectum sexuals"—people who have loving relationships with inanimate objects—Erika Naisho Eiffel spoke about her love affair with an archer's bow: "We were just such a great team because we had that connection on every single level. I'd almost swear that my blood flowed from my arm and went right into him. And it felt like the molecules in him were flowing right back into my arm."* It's no surprise that, before their love waned, Naisho Eiffel was a record-breaking world champion archer—a love story indeed. But more importantly, Naisho Eiffel's example seems to suggest that we might have gotten our relationship to the material world the wrong way round. Rather than resist the desires that surround the commodity, replacing them with transcendental, immaterial ethical imperatives (which, as we have seen, only lay the groundwork for commodities themselves to dematerialize), what if some kind of ecstatic overidentification with the commodity as material holds the key to its unraveling? Independent of the knowing subject, what secrets lie buried in the object? Maybe we are objects, too.
Hito Steyerl notes that emancipatory movements (feminism or anti-colonial struggles, for example) have always been built around the desire to be a subject—a sovereign, knowing, thinking, independent body. But why not consider being an object for a change? What happens if we work from the premise that we are already objectified, already objects? After all, not only is full-fledged subjectivity accompanied by the enormous burden of having to constantly, reflexively, individuate oneself by re-asserting one's autonomy, this burden itself renders subjecthood, as Steyerl puts it, "always already subjected." To accept being an object might be the beginning of moving beyond heroic expressions of pure, free will, and a means of bearing witness to its wreckage and decay. (see full essay here)
Rather than consider the distinction between an artwork and a "simple thing," Boris Groys suggests that we consider how the avant-garde negotiated—and attempted to cancel—the distinction between the artist and the non-artist. By producing "weak signs," the early avant-gardes attempted to make universally accessible, "messianic" forms that would withstand the shock of contracting, industrialized time, and "triumph over the strong signs of our world—strong signs of authority, tradition, and power, but also strong signs of revolt, desire, heroism, or shock." But now, as even everyday life is absorbed into cycles of permanent change, how can one produce weak gestures capable of withstanding constant renovation, gestures that can themselves absorb this contracting time by refusing to be crystallized as artifacts? (see full essay here)
Gean Moreno looks at the increasing interest over the previous decade or two in recasting the space of the art installation as a question of interior design. While this apparently benign strategy has introduced a number of new methods for articulating shared space and conditioning human interaction in disjunctive, broken, or self-reflexive ways, it seems that the translation of art spaces into designed interiors has suggested the possibility of something unexpectedly more radical. What would it mean then to "apply lethal doses of ambiguity to the very idea of a signature language . . . to shift the points of stress and strain and torque the list of expectations (maybe the call for clarity in terms of brand identity becomes its opposite)"? (see full essay here)
Lars Bang Larsen plays with the zombie as a figure of the mindless persistence of brain-eating capital and purposeless labor. If indeed capital knows nothing of life, then we look to the undead (and unliving) as an aberrational hybrid of living and dead thing, of consumer and commodity. The zombie is a hunger devoid of desire, one that is itself eaten away. It is "a slave morality that makes us cling to capital as though it were our salvation," binding the human together with the thing to embody a walking critique of alienated, dead labor. (see full essay here)
In the second part of his Art and Thingness series, "Thingification," Sven Lütticken looks to the historical precedents that set the stage for the readymade to unleash its own dialectics into the world of reified commodities: after dialectical materialism abolished the idealist duality of subject and object, Lukács' returned to objects as "social things," or quasi-subjects, and Adorno warned against demonizing objects and objectification. As commodity fetishism has become an obvious trap, with entire "new" economies arising to evade the weight of objects and things, so things have responded by asserting their own kind of memory, testifying to how they themselves have been subjected. (see full essay here)
—Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
* Married to the Eiffel Tower, BBC, June 4, 2008. Note that the organization Objectùm-Sexuality Internationale firmly denounces the documentary for its "exploitative and sensationalized take on OS." See http://www.objectum-sexuality.org/.
"The Evil Scourge of Terrorism": Reality, Construction, Remedy
By Noam Chomsky
The reasons why Reagan's war on terror has been dispatched to the repository of unwelcome facts are understandable and informative - about ourselves. Instantly, Reagan's war on terror became a savage terrorist war, leaving hundreds of thousands of tortured and mutilated corpses in the wreckage of Central America, tens of thousands more in the Middle East. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25131.htm
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The Civil War ranks as the most costly of US wars, with 625,000 deaths and a comparable number of injuries. Now the Republican Party is stoking the fires of insurrection and for thousands of right-wing zealots a new civil war seems a political necessity. As increasing numbers of Democratic politicians are threatened, how long will it be before domestic terrorists use their weapons? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25134.htm
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Writing this from a wheelchair (a temporary condition.)
Meanwhile, here's what really goes on in the news departments of TV stations.
Brian Springer's "Spin' - pirated news footage (also known as "wild feeds") which show how the news makers talk and act when they think we're not looking.
by Stephen Lendman On February 3, 2010, after a sham trial, the Department of Justice announced Siddiqui's conviction for "attempting to murder US nationals in Afghanistan and six additional charges." When sentenced on May 6, she faces up to 20 years for each attempted murder charge, possible life in prison on the firearms charge, and eight years on each assault charge.
NAOMI KLEIN | When it comes to acting to end Israeli war crimes, the international response has not suffered from too much haste but from far too little.
Since the Berkeley Campus has long been one of the most activist in the USA, and its actions very often "read" as the symptoms of a much larger and steadily growing "malaise," thought to post this as"sings of things to come" in the backlash against what journals in the UK and France have openly called "The New McCarthyism" in the USA and on US campuses specifically. This phrase, "The New McCarthyism" refers to the ongoing suppression of open, public debates and discourses, reporting and research regarding the US policies connected with Israel, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and many other people, places, events lumped together under various slogans and catchwords, reporting and research. Since this suppression of Free Speech is done in the name of "Homeland Security, "The War on Terror," etc it essays to wrap censorship, silencing, "forcing one to speak" as a form of psychological terrorism in the America Flag. As was pointed out by Hermann Goering during his trial at Nuremberg, even the most educated, sophisticated, respected citizens will give up just about everything, including Freedom of Speech, when confronted with a Threat--real or not--to their personal Security and/or that of the Homeland. So it is that even the "most secure" academics,bureaucrats, artists, poets, will gladly "hand over," or "report on" any thing and anyone they regard as a potential "threat," and/or an "existential threat."
While Goering openly stated that even fabricated threats may be used to create the "atmosphere of fear, necessary for the "handing over of rights to Freedom of Speech," today in the USA such an admission is not accepted. Despite all the "faked" evidence of the last roughly nine years, one is supposed to unquestioningly believe any new "information" provided by the Israelis, as well as the Americans, In re some of the effects on American campuses, a number of Professors in the US have lost their jobs and had their published works and persons persistently attacked by pro-Israeli groups in the US, and, since January of 2009, have experienced an "open assault" conducted by the Israeli State's policy of "going after" any criticism of its policies shown on you tube, twitter, blogs, etc. Seven Palestinian students who had been awarded Fulbright fellowships to study at various American Universities were blocked from attending these institutions by refusal of visas to them by the Israeli State. (Eventually, under much pressure, one student was finally granted a visa.) Currently over 600 Palestinian students with grants nd fellowships to study at foreign institutions are being refused visas to study aboard. This, coupled withe systematic bombing and destruction of schools for students of al ages, has severely curtailed the educational opportunities for Palestinians who want to become doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers so that their fellows may be prepared for peace time jobs, in which capacity they would be working for a future Palestinian State aimed at developing conditions which would NOT encourage and nurture terrorism and violence. People being busy studying and working with definite and promising, peaceful goals in mind are going to be far less interested in jeopardizing their country and country persons by irrational acts By torpedoing such education and jobs in Palestine and by banning Palestinians from American institutions, the Israeli State is directly affecting the Americans' opportunities to meet Palestinians in a peaceful and cooperative situation. By also attacking any speech, videos, professors, publications, presses from contributing positively to a discourse, a debate, whether critical or positive of the actions and policies of the Israeli State and its support groups aboard, the options of education about the actual aims and goals, the dreams and hopes of Palestinians and other peoples in the US, the option of their being shared openly with the American people, is being thwarted by a power not elected by the American people. This in itself poses a threat to future American openness to ideas and points of view both inside and outside the US, and makes the students of today as well as the citizenry, ever more ignorant of all but one side of the question, of al but one side of discourses and debates. Effectively, American Institutions are being asked to do the work of the Israeli State and its support groups, at the expense of al others' histories, cultures, economic situations, of their poetries, musics, political and philosophical thinking etc etc--
This "New McCarthyism" is one of the ongoing situations which the Berkeley events and Naomi Klein's letter to the Berkeley Students is hoping, in part to ameliorate. Such a "New McCarthyism" hurts everyone--Israelis, Palestinians and Americans. By fostering, emphasizing and forcibly creating an atmosphere of fear,distrust, hatred and paranoia, based on deliberate mis- and disinformation, all peoples and the hope for a Peaceful debate and discussion hopefully bringing about Peaceful generations who can trust and learn frm each other how to create a Peaceful outcome to the present situation does npot need to be destroyed by such tactics as are presently being employed.
NAOMI KLEIN | When it comes to acting to end Israeli war crimes, the international response has not suffered from too much haste but from far too little.
here are some (almost all ) very recent links regarding the situation re Palestinians, Americans and Israelis and their various positions regarding the events discussed above and an older post is one dealing specifically with the seven denied--and one letter allowed--admission to the USA to study on Fulbright Fellowships A rapidly growing Non Violent Protest movement organized by Jewish, Palestinian and Christian groups has beenstaging ever more proetests in Isarel and inside the Occupied Territories including within Gaza. The Israeli State has begun an open policy of suppression of any Peace movements within Israel, whether those organized by former IDF soldiers or religious and Human Rights activists, including students. The major policy now of protest groups both within and outside Israel world wide including in/at the borders with Palestine, is that of Non-Violence. There is a growing in terst in the study of Gandhi and his effective methods in India, and those of Reverend Doctor martin Luther King, Jr in the USA. Non-Violence may, once again, prove to be the most effective approach to Violence, Occupation, illegal Sieges, the building of Apartheid and Border Walls in Israel and world wide--including those the USA has built and is building in Ira and Afghanistan as well as along the USA-Mexican Border, which is being built by a combined US-Isreali group of engineers, "contractors" and corporations.
Mar 28, 2010 ...Palestinian student: Israel Border Police beat me for hours -News ... Russian Compound police station, where he was denied medical treatment. ... 20:32 Barak: U.S. ties are 'pillar and cornerstone' of Israel's security ... www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159294.html - Cached
Mar 29, 2010 ... Online news magazine and journal about Palestine, Israel, the Arab world, and the Middle East. ... Keep Us On The Job. Noam Chomsky: "The Palestine Chronicle has been ... Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread ... but are denied their basic human right of returning home. ... palestinechronicle.com/ - Cached
Hadeel is one of seven Gaza students who, on 29 May, all received letters from ... In the face of mounting criticism from both within the US and Israel, ... But hundreds of other Palestinian students remain stranded inside the ... and they are being denied their rights to pursue their education, and their futures. ... www.pchrgaza.org/files/campaigns/.../Narratives_14.html - Cached - Similar
RJI staff living in the West Bank work with Palestinian students to produce ... and their cousins are denied a narrative because of apartheid exclusion within ... the U.S., to organize and work for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine. ... calsjp.org/events/ - Cached
Mar 19, 2010 ... From UC Berkeley SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) .... 3 * Red Cross Report "Dignity Denied in the Occupied Palestinian Territories" .... "Arms Divestment and Cessation of US Military Aid to Israel" ... palestinethinktank.com/.../wave-of-divestment-resolutions-destroys-israels-legitimacy-on-campus/ - Cached
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in al-Mabhouh's death… ... At least seven of the names on the passports belong to Israeli residents whose .... While he was invited by a student organization to speak on US-Israeli ... uscsjp.wordpress.com/ - Cached - Similar
Please come all and support us, show presence! And bring candles! ... About 11000 students, most from inside Israel, already attend the college in ... She was later denied tenure in 2007. With the tenure review board voting unanimously ... www.facebook.com/pages/...Palestine-Student.../161416943487 - Cached
The grant helped fund the York University conference, Israel/Palestine: Mapping ....US Department of State's second visa denial for Professor Tareq Ramadan ... September 21, 2006, Israel, Occupational therapy students denied access to ... www.mesa.arizona.edu/caf/caf_letters.htm - Cached
Mar 31, 2010 ...Palestinian Journalists Who Visited Israel Face Expulsion from Palestinian... and another member of the inner group of seven ministers, ... An Obama administration official denied a recent BBC report according to which the U.S. is ... Qutb, who spent time as a student in the U.S. in the late 1940s, ... www.dailyalert.org/ - Cached - Similar
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is partnering with Pitt Students for .... A student and Palestinian-led workshop with a focus on Israel's.... -A reading of Seven Jewish Children, a 10-minute play written in response to .... of Jewish towns was promoted, while development in Arab centers was denied. ... www.pitt.edu/~sorc/pittsjp/recent.html - Cached - Similar
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Today sees the formal opening of UCCA's new exhibition Feelings are facts by Danish-Iclandic artist Olafur Eliasson and Chinese architect Ma Yansong. This will be the first collaboration between the two artists, each of whom represents unique endeavors and cultural backgrounds. Together they invite the audiences to enjoy an astounding artistic experience crafted by their exceptional powers of imagination.
"UCCA is proud to present Feelings are facts, an exhibition which catalyzes a dynamic cross-fertilization between art and architecture. The final result is born of a unique collaboration between leading European artist Olafur Eliasson and China's outstanding young architect, Ma Yansong. This breathtaking installation promises to transport the viewer on a journey, which reverses his normal art experience. Here the spectator, rather than simply viewing an art object from the outside, surprisingly witnesses himself becoming an integral part of the artwork. The viewer enters a world of extra-sensorial perception whereby color, light and architecture enable him to re-evaluate his relationship with his surroundings. The dialogue between Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong has invented an inspirational synergy between nature and our current urban environment, allowing the viewer a new perceptual encounter with himself." says UCCA Director, Jérôme Sans.
Olafur Eliasson's practice is characterized by his incessant exploration of our modes of perception. One of his focal ideas is to prompt us, the viewers or users of his works, to examine the conditions of our perceptions through our individual experiences, thus enabling us to re-evaluate our notions of what it means to be and act in the world; to consider the consequences of our feelings and actions, in art and in society at large.
Architect Ma Yansong has found fame through his buildings, realised with the newest materials and latest techniques. His designs are based upon ground-breaking experiments in architectural form that give his built objects a bold and living vitality.
In Feelings are facts, Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong challenge our everyday patterns of spatial orientation, thereby suggesting the need to invent new models for perception. The installation was specially crafted to fit the Big Hall of the UCCA, the dimensions of which were altered by substantially lowering the ceiling and constructing an inclined wooden floor.
Basing this project on a series of previous experiments with atmospheric density, Eliasson introduces condensed banks of artificially produced fog into the gallery. Hundreds of fluorescent lights are installed in the ceiling as a grid of red, green, and blue zones. By permeating the fog, these lights create colored walk-through spaces that, in Eliasson's words, function to 'make the volume of the space explicit'. The colored zones introduce a scale of measurement in the gallery, their varying size and organization referencing urban-planning grids. At each color boundary, two hues blend to create transitional slivers of cyan, magenta, or yellow, and so the visitors will create their own unique color spectrum when making their way through this seemingly endless space. The artists use this structural marvel to present inquiries into the nature of reality. What should be the basis of our thinking and judgement in a space where reality and illusion interconnect? As we stand amidst such accomplished phenomena, can we re-examine with greater concern our sensations and experiences of that which is around us?
This exhibition has been made possible with the support of LVMH / Moët Hennessy. Louis Vuitton and Zhongtai Holding Group and Zhongtai Lighting.
About UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is a non-profit, comprehensive art center founded in Beijing by collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007. UCCA presents exhibitions of established and emerging artists and develops a trusted platform to share knowledge through education and research.
"The rustle is the noise of what is working well" (R. Barthes)
As a means of opposing the inevitable media noise, certain artistic productions are stimulated by the political opportunities that are afforded by exchanging images in the global visual culture. In order to think with images, some people engage in strategies that redefine, confront, alter in some way or re-edit the media; others decide to conceal visibility and flirt with the "inframince"; yet others embark on a type of systemic resistance that places the emphasis on disobedience. Everyone, however, is careful to preserve the whispers of the images we share as a healthy form of collective knowledge.
The CA2M is organising the 17th edition of the regional government's Image Symposium, which will be held during the week of 21-25 June. This year, the symposium will include an international seminar for artists and theorists, open to the general public, a forum for researchers of art theory and practice, who will present their work at the critical sessions held throughout the week, and two artist workshops.
PANELS There are three panels for presenting research papers on art theory and practice.
1. Media misappropriations/Artistic conversations. Proposals by and about artists that offer a new focus in the media discourse and reflect on the experience-representation binomial.
2. Endless access: archives, collections, accumulations. Proposals by and about artists who engage in the promiscuity of image as a means of reflection and critique.
3. Systemic disobedience. Proposals by and about artists whose work focuses on the new concepts of property, appropriation and poor, low-cost images.
DEADLINE FOR PRESENTATION OF APPLICATIONS The deadline for the receipt of applications is 21 May 2010. Applicants are requested to submit their documentation as follows:
- By email, sending a completed enrolment form and your project (as a Word document or PDF file) to educacion.ca2m@madrid.org
- By post, enclosing the completed enrolment form and the printed project (applications received at the CA2M after 21 May will not be considered).
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
María Cañas, Thierry Davila, Joan Fontcuberta, Antoni Muntadas, Ernesto Oroza, Rosângela Rennó, and Ernst van Alphen.
Workshops: Antoni Muntadas and Rosângela Rennó
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo is a dynamic arts venue devoted to cutting-edge art opened in 2008. It is home to the Contemporary Art Collection of the Regional Government of Madrid, which comprises more than 1,500 works. At the same time, it organizes an ambitious program of exhibitions, education and research, designed to earn it a place among the most advanced arts centers in Europe. Among the fundamental issues that the centre aims to address are the study of the meaning of art in modern-day culture and society; the political effectiveness of art and culture; the alternatives to traditional work models in art; the analysis of the institution art as a perpetuator of symbolic and economic power relations; concepts related to life in community and, specifically, the role of the periphery of large cities.
How I Fought to Survive Guantánamo By Patrick Barkham
How I Fought to Survive Guantánamo
By Patrick Barkham
For nearly six years, British resident Omar Deghayes was imprisoned in Guantánamo and subjected to such brutal torture that he lost the sight in one eye. But far from being broken, he fought back to retain his dignity and his sanity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24468.htm
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ZERO POEM viSUAL sCORE/sOUND pERFORMANCE WITH THANKS TO GLEB KOLOMIETS
Gleb Kolomiets of Slova journal just put on line my ZERO POEM/POEM ZERO with the Visual Poetry score synched to the Sound Poetry--of the performance-- many thanks to Gleb more than i can say and i hope some of you may enjoy this--
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Slides shows: Iranian Street & Grafitti Art -Photo Stream: Multimedia Artist A1One's Work
-thanks Kohla Studio &A1One the 2 above slides shows are of Iranian Street and Graffiti Art; the one below is the photo stream of Iranian multimedia artist A1One Kohla Studio & various artists have hosted major International exhibitions of Sticker Art and related forms of Steet Art--Stenciling, Painting, Skate Board Art--
The New Extreme Experimental American Poetry & Arts--Necessity is the Motherfucker of Invention
"As usual, the only symptoms we had were in the language." --Pier Paulo Pasolini To degenerate as a result of the use of torture, & by its concealment & deception question human dignity & individual rights--
In the first lines of his Introduction to Torture: Cancer of Democracy France and Algeria 1954-62, Pierre Vidal-Naquet asks "Can a great nation, liberal by tradition, allows its institutions, its army, and its system of justice to degenerate over the span of a few years as a result of the use of torture, and by its concealment and deception of such a vital issue call the whole Western concept of human dignity and the rights of the individual into question?"
To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change
In The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, Thucydides states: "To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change. What used to be thought of as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward, any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant one was totally unfitted for action; frenzied violence came to be considered an attribute of a real man. "
Necessity is the Mother of Invention These entries are ongoing found materials with which one works on various projects. They are an Anarkeyology of Site/Sight/Cites in which, by relinking the Military & Art meanings of "avant-garde," are found different ways of investigating separations, Walls, silences, distranslations, forgeries, torture, "Newspeak," censorship and propaganda as elements common to both war and writing/art historically & in the USA & Globally today.
The finding of these materials and the questions they open are, I find, "necessary," as the Formal separations of the American "avant-gardes" from the Military & external/ internal imperialist realities that are among the "symptoms . . . in language" that Pasolini notes "we (have) to go on."
Separations in, of, and by language are "necessary" to Vidal-Naquet's "concealment " of "torture, cancer of democracy," whose "deceptions" erect barriers, Walls, prisons, "Security," Surveillance between not only the torturers and the tortured, Occupiers and the Occupied, but between actions and words, so that a culture conceals itself from itself.
Materials & questions that are "necessary" to examine separations, concealments, deceptions that are "necessary"-- and are Hidden in Plain Site/Sight/Cite
"Necessary"--to find among the "fictional" and the "factual," among street debris and the debris of Poetry, Writing & Arts, Street & Protest Arts and Actions, News Reports, Torture Documents , Prisons . . . the" failure to communicate" that haunts the Prison //Security//Surveillance System of Cool Hand Luke's"Boss Keane's Ditch" and daily covering more of the world. These interconnections and relinkings, the symptoms in language, is a work found by what I call "Necessity, the Motherfucker of Invention."
In The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia writes: "Indeed when the truth which had been confined to literature emerged harsh and tragic within the context of everyday life, and could no longer be ignored, it seemed as if it were a product of literature."
This "truth" " is something so "obvious"that it becomes treated as a separation, a "fiction," rather than a "real, true fact."
To work with the "Hidden in Plain Site/Sight/Cite" can in this way be considered a "fiction," compared to the "reality" of a Formal Separation which is "immune to these things."
Sciascia notes the "Hidden in Plain Site/Sight/Cite" in using an expression from Poe's "The Purloined Letter:"
"(W)hat we called the invisibility of the obvious . . . (from Poe's Dupin) . . others have called over-obviousness . . . an obviousness linked to other obviousnesses , all of them conforming to a . . . concept of the clandestine."
This "invisibility" is separated from the "real, true fact," which the account and appearances of events create as the version that is "believed" to have occurred.
Sciascia quotes a dictionary:
"One says: a real true fact. and such like. Real in this case seems to reinforce true, not simply as pleonasm but thus: a real true fact hasn't simply occurred but it has occurred as it is told, as it appeared, as it is believed . . . "
The separation of "what is told, as it appeared, as it is believed" from what is "the invisibility of the obvious" allows for the concealment and deception Vidal-Naquet writes of.
The entries here may be read as the raw materials of as an examination of these separations, symptons in language, and finding ways to link them in the term common to the military & ar t"avant- garde" in Necessity the Motherfucker of Invention's "New Extreme Experimental American Poetry& Arts.
"Waterboarding"--Brief History of a Word, a Practice
If the word torture, rooted in the Latin for “twist,” means anything (and it means “the deliberate infliction of excruciating physical or mental pain to punish or coerce”), then waterboarding is a means of torture. The predecessor terms for its various forms are water torture, water cure and water treatment.
The early phrase Chinese water torture described a cruel ordeal invented by Asian ancients. The purpose of slowly dripping water on the forehead until each little splash became unbearable was not “to elicit information through harsh interrogation” but to drive the victim mad. That phrase outlived its sadistic practice and is in use today, adopted as a metaphor for “repeated annoyance intended to infuriate.” In a 1991 hostage standoff, President George H. W. Bush decried “the cruel water torture of occasional vague promises.”
The water cure was described as the response by some American soldiers to atrocities by Filipino insurgents after our liberation of the Philippine Islands in the Spanish-American war of 1898. At a Congressional hearing in the spring of 1902, the “cure” was described as water “poured onto his face, down his throat and nose. . . . His suffering must be that of a man who is drowning but who cannot drown.” Mark Twain, writing in the May 1902 issue of the North American Review, deplored “the torturing of Filipinos by the awful ‘water cure’ . . . to make them confess.”
President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved, and in 1902 ordered the dismissal of the United States general in charge; in a letter to a German friend dated July 19, 1902, however, Roosevelt was slightly more understanding: to find out which Filipinos committed outrages, he wrote that “not a few” of our officers and enlisted men “began to use the old Filipino method of mild torture, the water cure. Nobody was seriously damaged, whereas the Filipinos had inflicted incredible tortures upon our own people.” T.R. was careful to add, “Nevertheless, torture is not a thing that we can tolerate.”
To more recent times: in 1953, a U.S. fighter pilot told United Press that North Korean captors gave him the “water treatment” in which “they would bend my head back, put a towel over my face and pour water over the towel. I could not breathe. . . . When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.” In 1976, a United Press International reporter wrote that U.S. Navy trainees “were strapped down and water poured into their mouths and noses until they lost consciousness. . . . A Navy spokesman admitted use of the ‘water board’ torture . . . to ‘convince each trainee that he won’t be able to physically resist what an enemy would do to him.’ ” In 1991, the columnist Jack Anderson — confusing the phrase about ancient practice with the modern development — wrote of “the Chinese water board demonstration, one of the most dangerous in the Navy arsenal. Water is then poured over their faces by an instructor to simulate prisoner-of-war treatment.” Without the “Chinese” reference, such “simulated drowning” is the method most often used today to describe the interrogation of three suspected terrorists, about which the C.I.A. director recently testified.
The earliest use of the phrase water boarding I can find is in an article about the interrogation of the suspected terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (often awarded the bogus title “9/11 mastermind”). It was posted on the Web site of The New York Times on May 12, 2004, by James Risen, David Johnston and Neil Lewis, published in The Times and carried worldwide on the A.P. wire the next day: “C.I.A. interrogators used graduated levels of force, including a technique known as ‘water boarding,’ in which a prisoner is strapped down, forcibly pushed under water and made to believe he might drown.”
Palfest 09: "to confront the culture of power with the power of culture"
Monday, May 25, 2009
Palfest 09: Culture vs. Power
The Guardian reports today that armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of the Palestinian Festival of Literature, organised by Ahdaf Soueif, when they ordered a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem to close, claiming that the festival - which is funded by the British Council and UNESCO - had received funding from the Palestinian Authority.
Soueif writes on Palfest's author blog http://www.palfest.org/authorsblog.html
(referring to a famous phrase of Edward Said's):
Today, my friends, we saw the clearest example of our mission: to confront the culture of power with the power of culture.
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Soueif writes on Palfest's author blog (referring to a famous phrase of Edward Said's):
Today, my friends, we saw the clearest example of our mission: to confront the culture of power with the power of culture.
Despite attempts to prevent the sharing and transmission of culture, Palfest is using all the communications tools at its disposal to reach out -- for videos, photos, blogs and other Palfest updates go here. Here's a video from the opening night:
"GITMOS ACROSS THE USA"--SEE SIDEBAR FOR ARTICLES & LINKS
The story of a man from Guinea who was detained in New Jersey raises questions about accountability and oversight in U.S. immigration detention system.
Israeli forces ended their offensive against Hamas in Gaza on Saturday, 17 January, following the declaration of ceasefires by Hamas and Israel.
Highlighted below are some of the main buildings identified as destroyed or damaged in Gaza City and the surrounding area as of 16 January, when this latest satellite image was taken.
The image, taken for Unosat at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, has helped researchers identify at least 566 destroyed or damaged buildings.
The map below shows the main areas attacked in the three weeks of violence.
Palestinian medical sources say more than 1,010 Palestinians were killed in the violence, which began on 27 December 2008. Israel says 13 Israelis died, including 10 soldiers in the campaign and three civilians killed as a result of rocket fire from Gaza.
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Manifesti, Scritti, Teorie, Saggi d'il Maestro e d'Il Professore Vidiamodopo
Roberto Bolano Paris 2001--Homage
Georg Grosz---Dada Death
Waiting for the Guards--extreme performance artist troupe enacts interrogationscenes for real
Waiting for the Guards Waiting for the Guards highlights interrogation techniques used in the 'war on terror'. The film was made using members of the extreme performance artist troupe who enacted the interrogation scenes for real. The film demonstrates the so called Stress Position and is the first in a series of films focusing on different 'enhanced interrogation' techniques. For now the film is an exclusive for the web, before a theatrical release in independent UK cinemas in early 2008. We believe that the film is a great introduction to the unsubscribe movement, so we ask you to get the movie out there, in any way you can. The more people who will see it, the more people will be compelled to unsubscribe.
Anarkeyology of Vision: from Paul Virilio Forward to his "Negative Horizon"
The field of vision always seemed to me comparable to what the ground is for archeological exploration. To see is to be lying in wait for what may spring up from the ground, nameless; for what presents no interest whatsoever, what is silent will speak, what is closed is going to open, it is always the trivial that is productive, and so this constant interest in the incidental, in the margins of whatever sort, that is, in the void and absence.
Felix Feneon
Arrested for "Anarchist Conspiracy"
GITMOS ACROSS AMERICA--DETENTION & DEATHS ARTICLES & LINKS
After the deaths of two immigrant detainees, a review of the cases prompted recommendations for faster reporting of deaths and better sharing of information.
A bill would require the secretary of the Homeland Security Department to report all deaths in immigration detention within 48 hours to the Justice Department's inspector general as well as its own.
As authorities continue rounding up illegal immigrants in these harsh days of ever-stricter enforcement, the potential for abuse will grow largely out of sight.
The Senate immigration bill that is lumbering toward final passage is overloaded with provisions that will make life harsher and more unfair for immigrants.
Lawmakers and government investigators are examining deaths of immigrants who die while in custody as immigration detention system swells to meet demands for stricter enforcement of immigration laws; family members and advocates have difficulty getting information about those who die in custody of immigrant detention, patchwork of federal, private and local facilities; new Immigration and Customs Enforcement report finds that 62 immigrants have died in custody since 2004; immigration officials ...
A case before a federal court of appeals has linked the Bush administration's methods of interrogating prisoners to a sharp change in the standards of humanitarian law at home.
Edwin Bulus, who fled Nigeria after members of family were jailed for allegedly plotting coup against military regime, has been detained by Immigration and Naturalization Service since arriving at Kennedy International Airport in May 1995, and his treatment has sometimes been harsh; is accused by Federal Government of entering country with false documents, and has since been denied parole while request for asylum is pending; asylum advocates describe handling of case by immigration service as K...
The story of a man from Guinea who was detained in New Jersey raises questions about accountability and oversight in U.S. immigration detention system.
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