Swarms of Swarms: The Awakened Space of Dennis Cooper’s The Marbled Swarm
Blake Butler10.31.11
Fanzine caught up with the always gracious Dennis Cooper in Paris this summer and was casually handed his forthcoming book The Marbled Swarm on a day we went to see Anish Kapoor’s inflatable Leviathan sculpture at the Palais Royal. "It’s my best yet," an understatement of humble challenge coming from America’s elder statesman of trangressive literature, now a more on-than-off expat in the country of his literary heroes, France. Cooper certainly has taken his economically taught, So-Cal erotic horror mastery and cloaked it with a mashup of continental elan. A novel of cannibalism twixt the secret passages of chateaus told in a new form of language that turns ouroboros-like (cannibalistically) in on itself, we couldn’t think of anyone better to unravel such a challenge than the next gen bard of sleepless nights, Blake Butler.
Zine: Hyde/Burn Collector
Amy Herschleb10.28.11
Who says print is dead? Eat my ass, Harvey Levin––and I don’t mean in a good way. It’s a sign of the times when Creative Loafing…
Book: Monster Party by Lizzy Acker
Amy Herschleb10.28.11
Monster Party, Lizzy Acker’s first book, is love without mercy for your own heart, the fierce, inextinguishable flame of certitude that the barriers…
The End Of The World As She Knows It: Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
Scott Bradley10.28.11
It’s nigh Halloween, and if you haven’t already been spooked off by director Lars Von Trier’s comments at this year’s Cannes Film Festival or by Trier’s excruciatingly visceral last film Antichrist, then perhaps you’ll welcome his latest offering Melancholia, available now for internet download and soon to be in theaters. But don’t expect to be scared as his apocalyptic drama centers on another emotion, clinical depression. The world is about to end, in one person’s solipsistic view, and in general. Scott Bradley reviews.
Music: Save Criminal Records/ Kill Your Darlings
Casey McKinney10.15.11
One of Atlanta’s icons, Criminal Records (and comic shop, etc) is maybe going out of business. Go there and buy records. Best record I bought at…
Music: Worker’s Playtime
Casey McKinney10.15.11
You’ve likely heard this put snidely…What are the list of demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters? A quip usually followed by: Will…
Film: Michael Caine
Casey McKinney10.15.11
Michael Caine is everywhere these days, again. Though he never really goes anywhere. His voice just changes – according to the movie The Trip, in…
George Kuchar: an appreciation and resurrected (self) interview
Brad Lapin09.30.11
George Kuchar died this month of cancer. He worked for over 50 years making films that mainstream audiences missed, but that an underground adored and was immeasurably inspired by. Brad Lapin has been a fan since the beginning and in 1979 he interviewed Kuchar for a zine he published called Damage. Yes it’s fucking punk rock.
Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism
Gean Moreno09.25.11
InfraNet Lab/Lateral Office is building a new architecture out of the carapaces of our dreams and failed cities. In volume 30 of the esteemed publication Pamphlet Architecture from Princeton Architectural Press, INL/LO suggests six "post-national" infrastructures from a proposed bridge across Bering Strait to Vatnsmyri Airport in Reykjavík. Gean Moreno considers the post-dreamtime landscape with a keen eye on the visually stunning and an ear for which playlist is called to muster.
!Women Art Revolution! – Lynn Hershman Leeson
Bradford Nordeen08.07.11
Lynn Hershman Leeson is at war. Has been for years. Her lastest film !Women Art Revolution! (aka WAR) is a collection of video portraits, interviews with key feminist artists concerning their uphill scrum against an artworld overcooked with machismo, but with a ceiling that’s been cracking since the 70s onward thanks to the likes of Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneeman, the Gorilla Girls and so forth. Bradford Nordeen brings us through Leeson’s career up to her current "revisionist vie for historiography, a smart and sober demand for reparation."
