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Brian Kim Stefans teaches digital literature and twentith century poetry at UCLA. He is the author of the books of poems What is Said the Poet Concerning Flowers (2006) and Kluge: A Meditation (2007), along with Before Starting Over: Essays and Interviews (2008) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (2003), among other works. His digital works are collected at arras.net.
CIRCULARS -- last 100 stories
http://www.arras.net/circulars/
Circulars is going into hibernation mode for the summer, possibly forever,
on May 31.
It will stay online as a resource of poetry, art, statements, opinions, wtfs
and news stories for future "archeologists of meaning."
New stories will still be posted from time to time, but the new homepage
will primarily be an index of the more than 450 items posted in the past 4
months.
Thanks to all of the contributors, commenters and readers. There's still
enough bad news to go around, but the intensity of the dissent, at least
online, has slackened -- time to try something different.
***
For reasons I won't explain - my own technical limitations, frankly - the
links are above the stories, not below them:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000637.html
myfreecursors.com: Patriotic Cursors
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000635.html
NYTimes: Texas' Republicans Fume; Democrats Remain AWOL
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000634.html
Charles Bernstein: The Rumsfeld Tablet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000633.html
moveon.org: Call Washington -- Who gains from the tax & budget cuts?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000632.html
bushwarsblog.com: The Bombing Attacks in Saudi Arabia
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000631.html
Globe and Mail: Revolution by e-mail? Tyrants aren't quiverin
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000630.html
nothingness.org: May 68 Picturebooks
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000629.html
George McGovern: A More Constructive Internationalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000628.html
sf.indymedia: Antiwar Movement Returns to Oakland Docks to Picket Corporate
Invaders & Lawless Cops
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000627.html
Additional Korea Links
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000626.html
Brian Kim Stefans: n epic
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000625.html
Rahul Mahajan: Don't Lift the Sanctions Yet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000624.html
rabble.ca: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Montreal
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000623.html
Washington Post: Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq; Task Force Unable
To Find Any Weapons
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000621.html
www.moveon.org: Media Issues Petition
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000619.html
Secret McCarthy papers released (available for download)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000618.html
Circulars: New Archives Page
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000617.html
Salam Pax Returns
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000616.html
The Nation: Top Gun at Job Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000614.html
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000613.html
Hugh MacDiarmid: For Daniel Cohn-Bendit
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000612.html
The Command Post
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000611.html
Guardian UK: Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on
Foreigners
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000609.html
Sunday Herald: "US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
W's Victory Speech: Gangsta Version
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000607.html
Korea News & Information Sites
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000606.html
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Constituents of a Theory of the Media
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000604.html
U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000603.html
May 31: A United for Peace & Justice National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive
War and Democracy
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000602.html
Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000601.html
Q&A: Janeane Garofalo Won't Back Down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000600.html
bushwarsblog.com
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000599.html
Gothic News Service: Astonishing Art Work Stops Traffic at Piccadilly Circus
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000598.html
Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000597.html
Ashleigh Banfield: On Embedded Journalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000596.html
Boston Globe: Memory and Moral Awareness in Korea
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000595.html
Impeach Bush French Fries
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000594.html
BILL WEINBERG: BEWARE BUSH'S BOOMERANG
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000593.html
The Independent: US/UK War Lies Reprise
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000592.html
Commondreams.org: Whistling Dixie
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000591.html
Shufu Theater: Interview -- Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000590.html
Proud to Kill an American
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000589.html
nothing but iraq: a reading of modern iraqi poetry
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000588.html
Alternet: Patriot Raid
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000587.html
PeaceWilliamsburg Presents "Relish Democracy"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000586.html
United for Peace and Justice Coalition: Chicago Conference, June 6-8
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000585.html
In Jesus's Name: Franklin Graham's Christian Empire
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html
whitehouse.org: The War In Iraq Concluded, President Bush Proudly Honors The
First-Ever Recipients Of The "Civilian Warmonger Medal Of Armchair Valor"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html
indymedia.org: Gruesome French Ads Depict Dead Journalists
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000581.html
Alternet: Cool Commodities
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000580.html
Shufu Theater: Interview with a Civilian
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000579.html
Homeland Security Rules
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000578.html
United for Peace: What's Next for Our Movement?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000577.html
MoveOn: "We'll throw out Bush and the Republicans using every means
available"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000575.html
Gothic News Service: Easter Morning at the SUV, Solar and Oak Grove
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000574.html
Onion: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000573.html
Burger King, Pizza Hut Open Iraq Locations
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000572.html
Washington Post: Municipalities Defy Patriot Act
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000571.html
Children held at Camp Xray, US admits
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000570.html
Nina Simone: "I Just Sing to Know That I'm Alive"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000567.html
BBC/Guardian: Unanswered Questions
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000566.html
Guardian: Israel Wants Iraqi Oil
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000565.html
Tom Tomorrow On Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000564.html
Revolution Is Not An AOL Keyword*
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000563.html
Guardian: Labour MPs Turn Up The Heat On Blair
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000562.html
Wired: Pacifist Programmers = No Grants For Free Software
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000561.html
Independent: Blix Sets Stage For Return of UN Inspectors To Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000560.html
BBC Reporter Blog Wraps Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000559.html
Le Monde Diplomatique: No War For Whose Oil?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000558.html
CNN: A Dry Run For Cheney's Obituary
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000557.html
Who Really Saved Private Lynch?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000556.html
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000555.html
Tim Robbins Speech to NAtional Press Club
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000554.html
OPEN LETTER TO POETS: SHAME ON US, DESTROYERS OF CIVILIZATION
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000553.html
Poets for Peace: Reading Friday April 25th
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000552.html
Gothic News: Sumerian Harp Ritual On Washington Mall
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000551.html
New York Times: The "Fox" Effect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000550.html
POLI SCI: political science writings of Language poet Bruce Andrews
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000549.html
In Fraud We Trust (image map dollar)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000548.html
Onion: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000547.html
Did CNN Turn Up Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000546.html
Tom Raworth: Listen Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000545.html
Already Fucked Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000544.html
Already marked down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000543.html
Time Disappears Bush Sr. Article Against War With Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000541.html
gvus.org: Global Vote for U.S. President
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000540.html
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (last part)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000539.html
The Progressive: The Peace Candidate
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000538.html
Robert Fisk: Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze
in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000536.html
ZNet: Noam Chomsky Interviewed
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000535.html
Dagens Nyheter: US Troops Initiated Plundering
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000532.html
Student poets victimised for anti-war stance
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000531.html
Gwynne Dyer: Ignorant Armies
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000529.html
Reverend Billy's Peace Revival And Tax Revolt!
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000528.html
SF Chronicle: A Permanent Patriot Act?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000527.html
NY Times: Conquest and Neglect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000526.html
Iraqi Regime Playing Cards
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000525.html
The Triumph of Corporate Monoculture
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000523.html
Voices in the Wilderness/Iraq peace team: Dispatch from Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000522.html
Staged "Liberation" media event?
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe."
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe.
Circulars is going into hibernation mode for the summer, possibly forever,
on May 31.
It will stay online as a resource of poetry, art, statements, opinions, wtfs
and news stories for future "archeologists of meaning."
New stories will still be posted from time to time, but the new homepage
will primarily be an index of the more than 450 items posted in the past 4
months.
Thanks to all of the contributors, commenters and readers. There's still
enough bad news to go around, but the intensity of the dissent, at least
online, has slackened -- time to try something different.
***
For reasons I won't explain - my own technical limitations, frankly - the
links are above the stories, not below them:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000637.html
myfreecursors.com: Patriotic Cursors
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000635.html
NYTimes: Texas' Republicans Fume; Democrats Remain AWOL
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000634.html
Charles Bernstein: The Rumsfeld Tablet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000633.html
moveon.org: Call Washington -- Who gains from the tax & budget cuts?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000632.html
bushwarsblog.com: The Bombing Attacks in Saudi Arabia
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000631.html
Globe and Mail: Revolution by e-mail? Tyrants aren't quiverin
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000630.html
nothingness.org: May 68 Picturebooks
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000629.html
George McGovern: A More Constructive Internationalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000628.html
sf.indymedia: Antiwar Movement Returns to Oakland Docks to Picket Corporate
Invaders & Lawless Cops
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000627.html
Additional Korea Links
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000626.html
Brian Kim Stefans: n epic
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000625.html
Rahul Mahajan: Don't Lift the Sanctions Yet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000624.html
rabble.ca: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Montreal
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000623.html
Washington Post: Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq; Task Force Unable
To Find Any Weapons
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000621.html
www.moveon.org: Media Issues Petition
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000619.html
Secret McCarthy papers released (available for download)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000618.html
Circulars: New Archives Page
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000617.html
Salam Pax Returns
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000616.html
The Nation: Top Gun at Job Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000614.html
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000613.html
Hugh MacDiarmid: For Daniel Cohn-Bendit
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000612.html
The Command Post
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000611.html
Guardian UK: Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on
Foreigners
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000609.html
Sunday Herald: "US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
W's Victory Speech: Gangsta Version
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000607.html
Korea News & Information Sites
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000606.html
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Constituents of a Theory of the Media
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000604.html
U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000603.html
May 31: A United for Peace & Justice National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive
War and Democracy
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000602.html
Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000601.html
Q&A: Janeane Garofalo Won't Back Down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000600.html
bushwarsblog.com
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000599.html
Gothic News Service: Astonishing Art Work Stops Traffic at Piccadilly Circus
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000598.html
Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000597.html
Ashleigh Banfield: On Embedded Journalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000596.html
Boston Globe: Memory and Moral Awareness in Korea
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000595.html
Impeach Bush French Fries
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000594.html
BILL WEINBERG: BEWARE BUSH'S BOOMERANG
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000593.html
The Independent: US/UK War Lies Reprise
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000592.html
Commondreams.org: Whistling Dixie
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000591.html
Shufu Theater: Interview -- Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000590.html
Proud to Kill an American
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000589.html
nothing but iraq: a reading of modern iraqi poetry
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000588.html
Alternet: Patriot Raid
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000587.html
PeaceWilliamsburg Presents "Relish Democracy"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000586.html
United for Peace and Justice Coalition: Chicago Conference, June 6-8
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000585.html
In Jesus's Name: Franklin Graham's Christian Empire
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html
whitehouse.org: The War In Iraq Concluded, President Bush Proudly Honors The
First-Ever Recipients Of The "Civilian Warmonger Medal Of Armchair Valor"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html
indymedia.org: Gruesome French Ads Depict Dead Journalists
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000581.html
Alternet: Cool Commodities
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000580.html
Shufu Theater: Interview with a Civilian
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000579.html
Homeland Security Rules
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000578.html
United for Peace: What's Next for Our Movement?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000577.html
MoveOn: "We'll throw out Bush and the Republicans using every means
available"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000575.html
Gothic News Service: Easter Morning at the SUV, Solar and Oak Grove
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000574.html
Onion: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000573.html
Burger King, Pizza Hut Open Iraq Locations
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000572.html
Washington Post: Municipalities Defy Patriot Act
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000571.html
Children held at Camp Xray, US admits
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000570.html
Nina Simone: "I Just Sing to Know That I'm Alive"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000567.html
BBC/Guardian: Unanswered Questions
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000566.html
Guardian: Israel Wants Iraqi Oil
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000565.html
Tom Tomorrow On Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000564.html
Revolution Is Not An AOL Keyword*
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000563.html
Guardian: Labour MPs Turn Up The Heat On Blair
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000562.html
Wired: Pacifist Programmers = No Grants For Free Software
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000561.html
Independent: Blix Sets Stage For Return of UN Inspectors To Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000560.html
BBC Reporter Blog Wraps Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000559.html
Le Monde Diplomatique: No War For Whose Oil?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000558.html
CNN: A Dry Run For Cheney's Obituary
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000557.html
Who Really Saved Private Lynch?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000556.html
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000555.html
Tim Robbins Speech to NAtional Press Club
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000554.html
OPEN LETTER TO POETS: SHAME ON US, DESTROYERS OF CIVILIZATION
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000553.html
Poets for Peace: Reading Friday April 25th
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000552.html
Gothic News: Sumerian Harp Ritual On Washington Mall
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000551.html
New York Times: The "Fox" Effect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000550.html
POLI SCI: political science writings of Language poet Bruce Andrews
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000549.html
In Fraud We Trust (image map dollar)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000548.html
Onion: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000547.html
Did CNN Turn Up Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000546.html
Tom Raworth: Listen Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000545.html
Already Fucked Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000544.html
Already marked down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000543.html
Time Disappears Bush Sr. Article Against War With Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000541.html
gvus.org: Global Vote for U.S. President
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000540.html
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (last part)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000539.html
The Progressive: The Peace Candidate
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000538.html
Robert Fisk: Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze
in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000536.html
ZNet: Noam Chomsky Interviewed
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000535.html
Dagens Nyheter: US Troops Initiated Plundering
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000532.html
Student poets victimised for anti-war stance
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000531.html
Gwynne Dyer: Ignorant Armies
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000529.html
Reverend Billy's Peace Revival And Tax Revolt!
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000528.html
SF Chronicle: A Permanent Patriot Act?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000527.html
NY Times: Conquest and Neglect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000526.html
Iraqi Regime Playing Cards
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000525.html
The Triumph of Corporate Monoculture
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000523.html
Voices in the Wilderness/Iraq peace team: Dispatch from Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000522.html
Staged "Liberation" media event?
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe."
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe.
CIRCULARS -- last 100 stories
http://www.arras.net/circulars/
Circulars is going into hibernation mode for the summer, possibly forever,
on May 31.
It will stay online as a resource of poetry, art, statements, opinions, wtfs
and news stories for future "archeologists of meaning."
New stories will still be posted from time to time, but the new homepage
will primarily be an index of the more than 450 items posted in the past 4
months.
Thanks to all of the contributors, commenters and readers. There's still
enough bad news to go around, but the intensity of the dissent, at least
online, has slackened -- time to try something different.
***
For reasons I won't explain - my own technical limitations, frankly - the
links are above the stories, not below them:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000637.html
myfreecursors.com: Patriotic Cursors
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000635.html
NYTimes: Texas' Republicans Fume; Democrats Remain AWOL
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000634.html
Charles Bernstein: The Rumsfeld Tablet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000633.html
moveon.org: Call Washington -- Who gains from the tax & budget cuts?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000632.html
bushwarsblog.com: The Bombing Attacks in Saudi Arabia
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000631.html
Globe and Mail: Revolution by e-mail? Tyrants aren't quiverin
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000630.html
nothingness.org: May 68 Picturebooks
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000629.html
George McGovern: A More Constructive Internationalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000628.html
sf.indymedia: Antiwar Movement Returns to Oakland Docks to Picket Corporate
Invaders & Lawless Cops
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000627.html
Additional Korea Links
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000626.html
Brian Kim Stefans: n epic
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000625.html
Rahul Mahajan: Don't Lift the Sanctions Yet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000624.html
rabble.ca: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Montreal
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000623.html
Washington Post: Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq; Task Force Unable
To Find Any Weapons
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000621.html
www.moveon.org: Media Issues Petition
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000619.html
Secret McCarthy papers released (available for download)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000618.html
Circulars: New Archives Page
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000617.html
Salam Pax Returns
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000616.html
The Nation: Top Gun at Job Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000614.html
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000613.html
Hugh MacDiarmid: For Daniel Cohn-Bendit
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000612.html
The Command Post
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000611.html
Guardian UK: Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on
Foreigners
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000609.html
Sunday Herald: "US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
W's Victory Speech: Gangsta Version
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000607.html
Korea News & Information Sites
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000606.html
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Constituents of a Theory of the Media
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000604.html
U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000603.html
May 31: A United for Peace & Justice National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive
War and Democracy
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000602.html
Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000601.html
Q&A: Janeane Garofalo Won't Back Down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000600.html
bushwarsblog.com
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000599.html
Gothic News Service: Astonishing Art Work Stops Traffic at Piccadilly Circus
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000598.html
Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000597.html
Ashleigh Banfield: On Embedded Journalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000596.html
Boston Globe: Memory and Moral Awareness in Korea
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000595.html
Impeach Bush French Fries
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000594.html
BILL WEINBERG: BEWARE BUSH'S BOOMERANG
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000593.html
The Independent: US/UK War Lies Reprise
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000592.html
Commondreams.org: Whistling Dixie
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000591.html
Shufu Theater: Interview -- Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000590.html
Proud to Kill an American
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000589.html
nothing but iraq: a reading of modern iraqi poetry
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000588.html
Alternet: Patriot Raid
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000587.html
PeaceWilliamsburg Presents "Relish Democracy"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000586.html
United for Peace and Justice Coalition: Chicago Conference, June 6-8
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000585.html
In Jesus's Name: Franklin Graham's Christian Empire
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html
whitehouse.org: The War In Iraq Concluded, President Bush Proudly Honors The
First-Ever Recipients Of The "Civilian Warmonger Medal Of Armchair Valor"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html
indymedia.org: Gruesome French Ads Depict Dead Journalists
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000581.html
Alternet: Cool Commodities
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000580.html
Shufu Theater: Interview with a Civilian
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000579.html
Homeland Security Rules
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000578.html
United for Peace: What's Next for Our Movement?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000577.html
MoveOn: "We'll throw out Bush and the Republicans using every means
available"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000575.html
Gothic News Service: Easter Morning at the SUV, Solar and Oak Grove
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000574.html
Onion: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000573.html
Burger King, Pizza Hut Open Iraq Locations
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000572.html
Washington Post: Municipalities Defy Patriot Act
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000571.html
Children held at Camp Xray, US admits
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000570.html
Nina Simone: "I Just Sing to Know That I'm Alive"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000567.html
BBC/Guardian: Unanswered Questions
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000566.html
Guardian: Israel Wants Iraqi Oil
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000565.html
Tom Tomorrow On Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000564.html
Revolution Is Not An AOL Keyword*
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000563.html
Guardian: Labour MPs Turn Up The Heat On Blair
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000562.html
Wired: Pacifist Programmers = No Grants For Free Software
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000561.html
Independent: Blix Sets Stage For Return of UN Inspectors To Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000560.html
BBC Reporter Blog Wraps Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000559.html
Le Monde Diplomatique: No War For Whose Oil?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000558.html
CNN: A Dry Run For Cheney's Obituary
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000557.html
Who Really Saved Private Lynch?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000556.html
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000555.html
Tim Robbins Speech to NAtional Press Club
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000554.html
OPEN LETTER TO POETS: SHAME ON US, DESTROYERS OF CIVILIZATION
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000553.html
Poets for Peace: Reading Friday April 25th
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000552.html
Gothic News: Sumerian Harp Ritual On Washington Mall
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000551.html
New York Times: The "Fox" Effect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000550.html
POLI SCI: political science writings of Language poet Bruce Andrews
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000549.html
In Fraud We Trust (image map dollar)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000548.html
Onion: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000547.html
Did CNN Turn Up Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000546.html
Tom Raworth: Listen Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000545.html
Already Fucked Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000544.html
Already marked down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000543.html
Time Disappears Bush Sr. Article Against War With Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000541.html
gvus.org: Global Vote for U.S. President
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000540.html
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (last part)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000539.html
The Progressive: The Peace Candidate
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000538.html
Robert Fisk: Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze
in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000536.html
ZNet: Noam Chomsky Interviewed
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000535.html
Dagens Nyheter: US Troops Initiated Plundering
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000532.html
Student poets victimised for anti-war stance
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000531.html
Gwynne Dyer: Ignorant Armies
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000529.html
Reverend Billy's Peace Revival And Tax Revolt!
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000528.html
SF Chronicle: A Permanent Patriot Act?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000527.html
NY Times: Conquest and Neglect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000526.html
Iraqi Regime Playing Cards
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000525.html
The Triumph of Corporate Monoculture
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000523.html
Voices in the Wilderness/Iraq peace team: Dispatch from Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000522.html
Staged "Liberation" media event?
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe.
Circulars is going into hibernation mode for the summer, possibly forever,
on May 31.
It will stay online as a resource of poetry, art, statements, opinions, wtfs
and news stories for future "archeologists of meaning."
New stories will still be posted from time to time, but the new homepage
will primarily be an index of the more than 450 items posted in the past 4
months.
Thanks to all of the contributors, commenters and readers. There's still
enough bad news to go around, but the intensity of the dissent, at least
online, has slackened -- time to try something different.
***
For reasons I won't explain - my own technical limitations, frankly - the
links are above the stories, not below them:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000637.html
myfreecursors.com: Patriotic Cursors
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000635.html
NYTimes: Texas' Republicans Fume; Democrats Remain AWOL
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000634.html
Charles Bernstein: The Rumsfeld Tablet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000633.html
moveon.org: Call Washington -- Who gains from the tax & budget cuts?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000632.html
bushwarsblog.com: The Bombing Attacks in Saudi Arabia
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000631.html
Globe and Mail: Revolution by e-mail? Tyrants aren't quiverin
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000630.html
nothingness.org: May 68 Picturebooks
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000629.html
George McGovern: A More Constructive Internationalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000628.html
sf.indymedia: Antiwar Movement Returns to Oakland Docks to Picket Corporate
Invaders & Lawless Cops
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000627.html
Additional Korea Links
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000626.html
Brian Kim Stefans: n epic
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000625.html
Rahul Mahajan: Don't Lift the Sanctions Yet
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000624.html
rabble.ca: Weapons of Mass Destruction in Montreal
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000623.html
Washington Post: Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq; Task Force Unable
To Find Any Weapons
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000621.html
www.moveon.org: Media Issues Petition
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000619.html
Secret McCarthy papers released (available for download)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000618.html
Circulars: New Archives Page
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000617.html
Salam Pax Returns
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000616.html
The Nation: Top Gun at Job Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000614.html
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000613.html
Hugh MacDiarmid: For Daniel Cohn-Bendit
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000612.html
The Command Post
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000611.html
Guardian UK: Firm in Florida Election Fiasco Earns Millions from Files on
Foreigners
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000609.html
Sunday Herald: "US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
W's Victory Speech: Gangsta Version
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000607.html
Korea News & Information Sites
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000606.html
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Constituents of a Theory of the Media
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000604.html
U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000603.html
May 31: A United for Peace & Justice National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive
War and Democracy
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000602.html
Cyberspace and the Lonely Crowd
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000601.html
Q&A: Janeane Garofalo Won't Back Down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000600.html
bushwarsblog.com
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000599.html
Gothic News Service: Astonishing Art Work Stops Traffic at Piccadilly Circus
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000598.html
Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000597.html
Ashleigh Banfield: On Embedded Journalism
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000596.html
Boston Globe: Memory and Moral Awareness in Korea
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000595.html
Impeach Bush French Fries
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000594.html
BILL WEINBERG: BEWARE BUSH'S BOOMERANG
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000593.html
The Independent: US/UK War Lies Reprise
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000592.html
Commondreams.org: Whistling Dixie
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000591.html
Shufu Theater: Interview -- Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000590.html
Proud to Kill an American
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000589.html
nothing but iraq: a reading of modern iraqi poetry
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000588.html
Alternet: Patriot Raid
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000587.html
PeaceWilliamsburg Presents "Relish Democracy"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000586.html
United for Peace and Justice Coalition: Chicago Conference, June 6-8
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000585.html
In Jesus's Name: Franklin Graham's Christian Empire
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html
whitehouse.org: The War In Iraq Concluded, President Bush Proudly Honors The
First-Ever Recipients Of The "Civilian Warmonger Medal Of Armchair Valor"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html
indymedia.org: Gruesome French Ads Depict Dead Journalists
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000581.html
Alternet: Cool Commodities
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000580.html
Shufu Theater: Interview with a Civilian
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000579.html
Homeland Security Rules
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000578.html
United for Peace: What's Next for Our Movement?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000577.html
MoveOn: "We'll throw out Bush and the Republicans using every means
available"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000575.html
Gothic News Service: Easter Morning at the SUV, Solar and Oak Grove
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000574.html
Onion: New Fox Reality Show To Determine Ruler Of Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000573.html
Burger King, Pizza Hut Open Iraq Locations
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000572.html
Washington Post: Municipalities Defy Patriot Act
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000571.html
Children held at Camp Xray, US admits
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000570.html
Nina Simone: "I Just Sing to Know That I'm Alive"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000567.html
BBC/Guardian: Unanswered Questions
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000566.html
Guardian: Israel Wants Iraqi Oil
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000565.html
Tom Tomorrow On Iraq Reconstruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000564.html
Revolution Is Not An AOL Keyword*
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000563.html
Guardian: Labour MPs Turn Up The Heat On Blair
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000562.html
Wired: Pacifist Programmers = No Grants For Free Software
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000561.html
Independent: Blix Sets Stage For Return of UN Inspectors To Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000560.html
BBC Reporter Blog Wraps Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000559.html
Le Monde Diplomatique: No War For Whose Oil?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000558.html
CNN: A Dry Run For Cheney's Obituary
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000557.html
Who Really Saved Private Lynch?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000556.html
Embedded Photographer: "I Saw Marines Kill Civilians"
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000555.html
Tim Robbins Speech to NAtional Press Club
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000554.html
OPEN LETTER TO POETS: SHAME ON US, DESTROYERS OF CIVILIZATION
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000553.html
Poets for Peace: Reading Friday April 25th
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000552.html
Gothic News: Sumerian Harp Ritual On Washington Mall
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000551.html
New York Times: The "Fox" Effect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000550.html
POLI SCI: political science writings of Language poet Bruce Andrews
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000549.html
In Fraud We Trust (image map dollar)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000548.html
Onion: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000547.html
Did CNN Turn Up Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000546.html
Tom Raworth: Listen Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000545.html
Already Fucked Up
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000544.html
Already marked down
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000543.html
Time Disappears Bush Sr. Article Against War With Iraq
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000541.html
gvus.org: Global Vote for U.S. President
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000540.html
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (last part)
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000539.html
The Progressive: The Peace Candidate
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000538.html
Robert Fisk: Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze
in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000536.html
ZNet: Noam Chomsky Interviewed
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000535.html
Dagens Nyheter: US Troops Initiated Plundering
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000532.html
Student poets victimised for anti-war stance
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000531.html
Gwynne Dyer: Ignorant Armies
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000529.html
Reverend Billy's Peace Revival And Tax Revolt!
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000528.html
SF Chronicle: A Permanent Patriot Act?
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000527.html
NY Times: Conquest and Neglect
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000526.html
Iraqi Regime Playing Cards
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000525.html
The Triumph of Corporate Monoculture
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000523.html
Voices in the Wilderness/Iraq peace team: Dispatch from Baghdad
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000522.html
Staged "Liberation" media event?
____
A R R A S: new media poetry and poetics
http://www.arras.net
Hinka cumfae cashore canfeh, Ahl hityi oar hied 'caw taughtie!
"Do you think just because I come from Carronshore I cannot fight? I shall
hit you over the head with a cold potatoe.
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
[The following is from Steve Perry's bushwarsblog.com concerning something he posted a few days ago, and to which I linked. I think it's very pertinent as I've linked to other sites on my site Circulars (http://www.arras.net/circulars)-- "humor" sites -- that were criticized as being racist. My own response to Steve -- including an aside on "rent-a-negro.com" -- is below.]
I admit I had some misgivings over posting the Snoop Dogg translation of Bush's victory speech yesterday. And an old friend of mine--a person who tends to be both hypersensitive and wise in matters of crypto-racism--wrote me as follows: "This isn't such a good idea. It reeks of coon show."
I know what he means, and the question comes down to this (I think): Is it prima facie racist to employ racially tinged stereotypes to make a point?
The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.
But maybe this is all just so much rationalization, irrelevant even if it's correct in its own obscure way; maybe, for practical purposes, the most salient point is that employing racial stereotypes to any end is pernicious. Myself, I think we're past that point. But I'm not entirely sure. Tell me what you think: sperry@citypages.com
***
Dear Steve,
I run the website Circulars - http://www.arras.net/circulars/ -- and reposted the Shizzolatin piece, though with some reservations:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
I didn’t foreground the metaphor that you were making between gangsta culture and the Bush regime - I don’t think too many people would have gotten that, certainly not in the formulation that you made on your blog today.
(“The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.”)
I put it up, though, because I see my site as a sort of clearing house for different ways of making political art, even if slightly tasteless. At times - like when I make links to the site whitehouse.org - racist stereotypes and language are involved. (Actually, it’s only that site that moves into racism - other more or less “tasteless” political art seems to have no problem stereotyping gays and women, not to mention those with mental health issues.)
Here are the two times that I linked to whitehouse.org and/or took some of their art: -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html. (I actually agree with “Buford,” that the piece, which I hadn’t read entirely before posting, is pretty bad, though I think “he” is more full of “hatred” than I could ever be - I would never fantasize about doing harm to someone the way he does.)
Here’s the other one -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000480.html -- which seems to take shots at everybody, though the commenter didn’t obviously think so.
This is because I’m interested in the creative, non-discursive, “surprise attack” aspects of political art - excess, even if it moves beyond positive formulations of “what we should do,” since I feel pretty desperate to fill in the void of wilder forms of protest art that seem to have been more prevalent in the last century. Here is something rather extreme, again having to do mostly with celebrities: http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html.
In addition, I write about “digital poetics” and cover topics concerning how a text can move from an ethically neutral zone to one that is ethically charged based on the work of a simple algorithm - the site “pornolize.com” is the example I use, but it seems the most recent crop tends to have to do with Black American English (there are tons of “Ebonics” translators out there).
I suppose, if this didn’t come from a site actually created by Snoop Dogg - I’m assuming it was, or by his company - then I wouldn’t have posted it, as there is a pretty tedious new streak of web art these days (I assume by whites) that tries to make a good point - that the internet, or at least most of the discourse around it, seems to be the domain mostly of whites and Asians - by “getting dirty,” trying to be on the good cop by pretending to be the bad cop, and doing obnoxious things like this site -- http://rent-a-negro.com/ -- whose URL speaks for itself.
I myself am Korean American (“half” Korean), and was not raised in a Korean neighborhood, so I’ve had my share of racial epithets tossed my way. I know that when I was in high school - I attended an urban high school in Jersey City rather than my mostly white high school in the suburbs - it was somewhat liberating for me and my friends there, who were mostly non-white, to play with racially-charged language - we took it over, in a sense, though not to pathological extremes - it still hurt when we heard it elsewhere.
I’ve never mentioned that I was Korean American on the site, though, as I didn’t think it mattered, in a way, and my hope was that the sensibility expressed on the site - to which there are over 15 contributors - would be general enough, beyond any need to psychoanalyze motives. But I confess that I was a bit afraid, also - would it be acceptable to people “out there” that a site that is so obviously critical of the Bush administration was created by a Korean American? I don’t want to know.
I guess I always hope that “we” can share a joke - that racist stereotypes are bad - by putting on the masks, switching identities, playing with the language, etc., but I’m not sure how that plays out in the long run, in either reaffirming what we would like to destroy, etc. I may have lost some readers by posting the links to whitehouse.org, or even your site - well, my readership has gone down anyway, since the “war” “ended” - which is unfortunate, but I’ve learned a lot by reading the comments section on my site in reaction to these pieces, even when they were flames.
There are certainly enough stereotypes about white people flying around in the political art of today, perhaps particularly Texans - is the fact that it white Americans create this art important? Are the perspectives translating well across a broad spectrum of culture?
Anyway, I have no answers to any of this. One can’t expect everyone to share one’s sense of the range of permissible forms of expression - something will always confuse or anger someone else - negativity, whether in the form of punk rock, gangsta rap, Dada, even these language algorithms, can have its liberating aspects, but to many it might just seem vicious noise.
One last point I wanted to make was this - that the ethnic make-up of the Bush cabinet seems to suggest that he is responding to a need for racial diversity in the government, and is in some ways “progressive.” Fine, but I think the issue is not just “diversity” but “difference” - that the various races that live in America also play by different rules when they are existing in their own neighborhoods, cultures, etc. - speak differently, also. Sometimes they don’t even hear each other, though the Bush cabinet, working in exquisite concord, apparently does.
I suppose, though I am not sure, that creating obnoxious cartoons about “difference” at least suggest the contradictions and potential conflicts in American culture that the Bush cabinet seems to want to gloss over, as they have glossed over differences with their peers around the world. I prefer this harsh highlighting of recalcitrant social detail over the evangelical “vision” that guides our foreign and domestic policy at the moment.
Perhaps I am the wrong person to foreground this - I’m pretty middle class - but nonetheless it seems necessary.
Thanks
Brian
I admit I had some misgivings over posting the Snoop Dogg translation of Bush's victory speech yesterday. And an old friend of mine--a person who tends to be both hypersensitive and wise in matters of crypto-racism--wrote me as follows: "This isn't such a good idea. It reeks of coon show."
I know what he means, and the question comes down to this (I think): Is it prima facie racist to employ racially tinged stereotypes to make a point?
The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.
But maybe this is all just so much rationalization, irrelevant even if it's correct in its own obscure way; maybe, for practical purposes, the most salient point is that employing racial stereotypes to any end is pernicious. Myself, I think we're past that point. But I'm not entirely sure. Tell me what you think: sperry@citypages.com
***
Dear Steve,
I run the website Circulars - http://www.arras.net/circulars/ -- and reposted the Shizzolatin piece, though with some reservations:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
I didn’t foreground the metaphor that you were making between gangsta culture and the Bush regime - I don’t think too many people would have gotten that, certainly not in the formulation that you made on your blog today.
(“The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.”)
I put it up, though, because I see my site as a sort of clearing house for different ways of making political art, even if slightly tasteless. At times - like when I make links to the site whitehouse.org - racist stereotypes and language are involved. (Actually, it’s only that site that moves into racism - other more or less “tasteless” political art seems to have no problem stereotyping gays and women, not to mention those with mental health issues.)
Here are the two times that I linked to whitehouse.org and/or took some of their art: -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html. (I actually agree with “Buford,” that the piece, which I hadn’t read entirely before posting, is pretty bad, though I think “he” is more full of “hatred” than I could ever be - I would never fantasize about doing harm to someone the way he does.)
Here’s the other one -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000480.html -- which seems to take shots at everybody, though the commenter didn’t obviously think so.
This is because I’m interested in the creative, non-discursive, “surprise attack” aspects of political art - excess, even if it moves beyond positive formulations of “what we should do,” since I feel pretty desperate to fill in the void of wilder forms of protest art that seem to have been more prevalent in the last century. Here is something rather extreme, again having to do mostly with celebrities: http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html.
In addition, I write about “digital poetics” and cover topics concerning how a text can move from an ethically neutral zone to one that is ethically charged based on the work of a simple algorithm - the site “pornolize.com” is the example I use, but it seems the most recent crop tends to have to do with Black American English (there are tons of “Ebonics” translators out there).
I suppose, if this didn’t come from a site actually created by Snoop Dogg - I’m assuming it was, or by his company - then I wouldn’t have posted it, as there is a pretty tedious new streak of web art these days (I assume by whites) that tries to make a good point - that the internet, or at least most of the discourse around it, seems to be the domain mostly of whites and Asians - by “getting dirty,” trying to be on the good cop by pretending to be the bad cop, and doing obnoxious things like this site -- http://rent-a-negro.com/ -- whose URL speaks for itself.
I myself am Korean American (“half” Korean), and was not raised in a Korean neighborhood, so I’ve had my share of racial epithets tossed my way. I know that when I was in high school - I attended an urban high school in Jersey City rather than my mostly white high school in the suburbs - it was somewhat liberating for me and my friends there, who were mostly non-white, to play with racially-charged language - we took it over, in a sense, though not to pathological extremes - it still hurt when we heard it elsewhere.
I’ve never mentioned that I was Korean American on the site, though, as I didn’t think it mattered, in a way, and my hope was that the sensibility expressed on the site - to which there are over 15 contributors - would be general enough, beyond any need to psychoanalyze motives. But I confess that I was a bit afraid, also - would it be acceptable to people “out there” that a site that is so obviously critical of the Bush administration was created by a Korean American? I don’t want to know.
I guess I always hope that “we” can share a joke - that racist stereotypes are bad - by putting on the masks, switching identities, playing with the language, etc., but I’m not sure how that plays out in the long run, in either reaffirming what we would like to destroy, etc. I may have lost some readers by posting the links to whitehouse.org, or even your site - well, my readership has gone down anyway, since the “war” “ended” - which is unfortunate, but I’ve learned a lot by reading the comments section on my site in reaction to these pieces, even when they were flames.
There are certainly enough stereotypes about white people flying around in the political art of today, perhaps particularly Texans - is the fact that it white Americans create this art important? Are the perspectives translating well across a broad spectrum of culture?
Anyway, I have no answers to any of this. One can’t expect everyone to share one’s sense of the range of permissible forms of expression - something will always confuse or anger someone else - negativity, whether in the form of punk rock, gangsta rap, Dada, even these language algorithms, can have its liberating aspects, but to many it might just seem vicious noise.
One last point I wanted to make was this - that the ethnic make-up of the Bush cabinet seems to suggest that he is responding to a need for racial diversity in the government, and is in some ways “progressive.” Fine, but I think the issue is not just “diversity” but “difference” - that the various races that live in America also play by different rules when they are existing in their own neighborhoods, cultures, etc. - speak differently, also. Sometimes they don’t even hear each other, though the Bush cabinet, working in exquisite concord, apparently does.
I suppose, though I am not sure, that creating obnoxious cartoons about “difference” at least suggest the contradictions and potential conflicts in American culture that the Bush cabinet seems to want to gloss over, as they have glossed over differences with their peers around the world. I prefer this harsh highlighting of recalcitrant social detail over the evangelical “vision” that guides our foreign and domestic policy at the moment.
Perhaps I am the wrong person to foreground this - I’m pretty middle class - but nonetheless it seems necessary.
Thanks
Brian
Question of the Day: Is Shizzolatin' Racist?
[The following is from Steve Perry's bushwarsblog.com concerning something he posted a few days ago, and to which I linked. I think it's very pertinent as I've linked to other sites on my site Circulars (http://www.arras.net/circulars)-- "humor" sites -- that were criticized as being racist. My own response to Steve -- including an aside on "rent-a-negro.com" -- is below.]
I admit I had some misgivings over posting the Snoop Dogg translation of Bush's victory speech yesterday. And an old friend of mine--a person who tends to be both hypersensitive and wise in matters of crypto-racism--wrote me as follows: "This isn't such a good idea. It reeks of coon show."
I know what he means, and the question comes down to this (I think): Is it prima facie racist to employ racially tinged stereotypes to make a point?
The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.
But maybe this is all just so much rationalization, irrelevant even if it's correct in its own obscure way; maybe, for practical purposes, the most salient point is that employing racial stereotypes to any end is pernicious. Myself, I think we're past that point. But I'm not entirely sure. Tell me what you think: sperry@citypages.com
***
Dear Steve,
I run the website Circulars - http://www.arras.net/circulars/ -- and reposted the Shizzolatin piece, though with some reservations:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
I didn’t foreground the metaphor that you were making between gangsta culture and the Bush regime - I don’t think too many people would have gotten that, certainly not in the formulation that you made on your blog today.
(“The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.”)
I put it up, though, because I see my site as a sort of clearing house for different ways of making political art, even if slightly tasteless. At times - like when I make links to the site whitehouse.org - racist stereotypes and language are involved. (Actually, it’s only that site that moves into racism - other more or less “tasteless” political art seems to have no problem stereotyping gays and women, not to mention those with mental health issues.)
Here are the two times that I linked to whitehouse.org and/or took some of their art: -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html. (I actually agree with “Buford,” that the piece, which I hadn’t read entirely before posting, is pretty bad, though I think “he” is more full of “hatred” than I could ever be - I would never fantasize about doing harm to someone the way he does.)
Here’s the other one -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000480.html -- which seems to take shots at everybody, though the commenter didn’t obviously think so.
This is because I’m interested in the creative, non-discursive, “surprise attack” aspects of political art - excess, even if it moves beyond positive formulations of “what we should do,” since I feel pretty desperate to fill in the void of wilder forms of protest art that seem to have been more prevalent in the last century. Here is something rather extreme, again having to do mostly with celebrities: http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html.
In addition, I write about “digital poetics” and cover topics concerning how a text can move from an ethically neutral zone to one that is ethically charged based on the work of a simple algorithm - the site “pornolize.com” is the example I use, but it seems the most recent crop tends to have to do with Black American English (there are tons of “Ebonics” translators out there).
I suppose, if this didn’t come from a site actually created by Snoop Dogg - I’m assuming it was, or by his company - then I wouldn’t have posted it, as there is a pretty tedious new streak of web art these days (I assume by whites) that tries to make a good point - that the internet, or at least most of the discourse around it, seems to be the domain mostly of whites and Asians - by “getting dirty,” trying to be on the good cop by pretending to be the bad cop, and doing obnoxious things like this site -- http://rent-a-negro.com/ -- whose URL speaks for itself.
I myself am Korean American (“half” Korean), and was not raised in a Korean neighborhood, so I’ve had my share of racial epithets tossed my way. I know that when I was in high school - I attended an urban high school in Jersey City rather than my mostly white high school in the suburbs - it was somewhat liberating for me and my friends there, who were mostly non-white, to play with racially-charged language - we took it over, in a sense, though not to pathological extremes - it still hurt when we heard it elsewhere.
I’ve never mentioned that I was Korean American on the site, though, as I didn’t think it mattered, in a way, and my hope was that the sensibility expressed on the site - to which there are over 15 contributors - would be general enough, beyond any need to psychoanalyze motives. But I confess that I was a bit afraid, also - would it be acceptable to people “out there” that a site that is so obviously critical of the Bush administration was created by a Korean American? I don’t want to know.
I guess I always hope that “we” can share a joke - that racist stereotypes are bad - by putting on the masks, switching identities, playing with the language, etc., but I’m not sure how that plays out in the long run, in either reaffirming what we would like to destroy, etc. I may have lost some readers by posting the links to whitehouse.org, or even your site - well, my readership has gone down anyway, since the “war” “ended” - which is unfortunate, but I’ve learned a lot by reading the comments section on my site in reaction to these pieces, even when they were flames.
There are certainly enough stereotypes about white people flying around in the political art of today, perhaps particularly Texans - is the fact that it white Americans create this art important? Are the perspectives translating well across a broad spectrum of culture?
Anyway, I have no answers to any of this. One can’t expect everyone to share one’s sense of the range of permissible forms of expression - something will always confuse or anger someone else - negativity, whether in the form of punk rock, gangsta rap, Dada, even these language algorithms, can have its liberating aspects, but to many it might just seem vicious noise.
One last point I wanted to make was this - that the ethnic make-up of the Bush cabinet seems to suggest that he is responding to a need for racial diversity in the government, and is in some ways “progressive.” Fine, but I think the issue is not just “diversity” but “difference” - that the various races that live in America also play by different rules when they are existing in their own neighborhoods, cultures, etc. - speak differently, also. Sometimes they don’t even hear each other, though the Bush cabinet, working in exquisite concord, apparently does.
I suppose, though I am not sure, that creating obnoxious cartoons about “difference” at least suggest the contradictions and potential conflicts in American culture that the Bush cabinet seems to want to gloss over, as they have glossed over differences with their peers around the world. I prefer this harsh highlighting of recalcitrant social detail over the evangelical “vision” that guides our foreign and domestic policy at the moment.
Perhaps I am the wrong person to foreground this - I’m pretty middle class - but nonetheless it seems necessary.
Thanks
Brian
I admit I had some misgivings over posting the Snoop Dogg translation of Bush's victory speech yesterday. And an old friend of mine--a person who tends to be both hypersensitive and wise in matters of crypto-racism--wrote me as follows: "This isn't such a good idea. It reeks of coon show."
I know what he means, and the question comes down to this (I think): Is it prima facie racist to employ racially tinged stereotypes to make a point?
The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.
But maybe this is all just so much rationalization, irrelevant even if it's correct in its own obscure way; maybe, for practical purposes, the most salient point is that employing racial stereotypes to any end is pernicious. Myself, I think we're past that point. But I'm not entirely sure. Tell me what you think: sperry@citypages.com
***
Dear Steve,
I run the website Circulars - http://www.arras.net/circulars/ -- and reposted the Shizzolatin piece, though with some reservations:
http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000608.html
I didn’t foreground the metaphor that you were making between gangsta culture and the Bush regime - I don’t think too many people would have gotten that, certainly not in the formulation that you made on your blog today.
(“The point I wished to make between the lines was this: Gangsta culture is gangsta culture, and if you credit the reasoning of Bush's foreign policy, you have to respect the most hardcore gangsta rappers as well--and, needless to say, vice versa. Why? Because either it's all right to value getting paid over all else--sooner rather than later, and by any means available--or else it's not. Any which way, I see the Bush administration and the most grandiose of the hiphop gangstas in the same light.”)
I put it up, though, because I see my site as a sort of clearing house for different ways of making political art, even if slightly tasteless. At times - like when I make links to the site whitehouse.org - racist stereotypes and language are involved. (Actually, it’s only that site that moves into racism - other more or less “tasteless” political art seems to have no problem stereotyping gays and women, not to mention those with mental health issues.)
Here are the two times that I linked to whitehouse.org and/or took some of their art: -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000583.html. (I actually agree with “Buford,” that the piece, which I hadn’t read entirely before posting, is pretty bad, though I think “he” is more full of “hatred” than I could ever be - I would never fantasize about doing harm to someone the way he does.)
Here’s the other one -- http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000480.html -- which seems to take shots at everybody, though the commenter didn’t obviously think so.
This is because I’m interested in the creative, non-discursive, “surprise attack” aspects of political art - excess, even if it moves beyond positive formulations of “what we should do,” since I feel pretty desperate to fill in the void of wilder forms of protest art that seem to have been more prevalent in the last century. Here is something rather extreme, again having to do mostly with celebrities: http://www.arras.net/circulars/archives/000582.html.
In addition, I write about “digital poetics” and cover topics concerning how a text can move from an ethically neutral zone to one that is ethically charged based on the work of a simple algorithm - the site “pornolize.com” is the example I use, but it seems the most recent crop tends to have to do with Black American English (there are tons of “Ebonics” translators out there).
I suppose, if this didn’t come from a site actually created by Snoop Dogg - I’m assuming it was, or by his company - then I wouldn’t have posted it, as there is a pretty tedious new streak of web art these days (I assume by whites) that tries to make a good point - that the internet, or at least most of the discourse around it, seems to be the domain mostly of whites and Asians - by “getting dirty,” trying to be on the good cop by pretending to be the bad cop, and doing obnoxious things like this site -- http://rent-a-negro.com/ -- whose URL speaks for itself.
I myself am Korean American (“half” Korean), and was not raised in a Korean neighborhood, so I’ve had my share of racial epithets tossed my way. I know that when I was in high school - I attended an urban high school in Jersey City rather than my mostly white high school in the suburbs - it was somewhat liberating for me and my friends there, who were mostly non-white, to play with racially-charged language - we took it over, in a sense, though not to pathological extremes - it still hurt when we heard it elsewhere.
I’ve never mentioned that I was Korean American on the site, though, as I didn’t think it mattered, in a way, and my hope was that the sensibility expressed on the site - to which there are over 15 contributors - would be general enough, beyond any need to psychoanalyze motives. But I confess that I was a bit afraid, also - would it be acceptable to people “out there” that a site that is so obviously critical of the Bush administration was created by a Korean American? I don’t want to know.
I guess I always hope that “we” can share a joke - that racist stereotypes are bad - by putting on the masks, switching identities, playing with the language, etc., but I’m not sure how that plays out in the long run, in either reaffirming what we would like to destroy, etc. I may have lost some readers by posting the links to whitehouse.org, or even your site - well, my readership has gone down anyway, since the “war” “ended” - which is unfortunate, but I’ve learned a lot by reading the comments section on my site in reaction to these pieces, even when they were flames.
There are certainly enough stereotypes about white people flying around in the political art of today, perhaps particularly Texans - is the fact that it white Americans create this art important? Are the perspectives translating well across a broad spectrum of culture?
Anyway, I have no answers to any of this. One can’t expect everyone to share one’s sense of the range of permissible forms of expression - something will always confuse or anger someone else - negativity, whether in the form of punk rock, gangsta rap, Dada, even these language algorithms, can have its liberating aspects, but to many it might just seem vicious noise.
One last point I wanted to make was this - that the ethnic make-up of the Bush cabinet seems to suggest that he is responding to a need for racial diversity in the government, and is in some ways “progressive.” Fine, but I think the issue is not just “diversity” but “difference” - that the various races that live in America also play by different rules when they are existing in their own neighborhoods, cultures, etc. - speak differently, also. Sometimes they don’t even hear each other, though the Bush cabinet, working in exquisite concord, apparently does.
I suppose, though I am not sure, that creating obnoxious cartoons about “difference” at least suggest the contradictions and potential conflicts in American culture that the Bush cabinet seems to want to gloss over, as they have glossed over differences with their peers around the world. I prefer this harsh highlighting of recalcitrant social detail over the evangelical “vision” that guides our foreign and domestic policy at the moment.
Perhaps I am the wrong person to foreground this - I’m pretty middle class - but nonetheless it seems necessary.
Thanks
Brian
Circulars: 100 new stories
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mailing:
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LEA Call for Papers: Artists and Scientists in Times of War
LA Times: Photoshopping In Iraq
Washington Post: Columnist/Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq
Gothic News: Code "Onion" at both White House & Fox TV
Edwin Starr R.I.P.
Slate: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Anthology of Poets Against the War
VoteToImpeach Movement
Moveon.org: Important: Letters on the future of Iraq
Reuters: Bill in Oregon Seeks to Jail War Protesters as Terrorists
Greenpeace: US to UN: Butt out
Kucinich Takes To House Floor To Oppose War Supplemental
whitehouse.org: Fancy a Snort of Yank Bum?
Ron Silliman: Barbarians
Gothic News: Reviving Uncle Sam: Bicycles to Pull Corpse Across America
365Gay.com: Gay Eye On Baghdad
16Beaver: Weekend of April 16 Events
United for Peace: Honor Dr. King's Legacy, Stop the War!
PAUL CHAN: BAGHDAD: HOME MOVIES
Greg Fuchs: The Antiwar Movement is Alive (with photodocumenary)
Robert Fisk: Wailing children, the wounded, the dead: victims of the day
cluster bombs rained on Babylon
ZNET: Iraq War Quiz
Note from BKS
Feds "Disappear" Intel Programmer
Saddam SMS
Daniel Cohn-Bendit debates Richard Perle
Washington Post: Hackers Plan to Protest Iraq War
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex II
Exposing the Ducts
National Day of Direct Action on A7
The Onion: "I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About
America"
CNN: Geraldo leaves Iraq To Avoid Being Thrown Out
Peter Arnett: "They Don't Want Credible News Organisations Reporting From
Here"
Democracy Now: US Military Detains & Beats Non-Embedded Journalists
nationalphilistine.com: Free Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training Workshop
/ Baghdad Home Movies
Collectibles Today: Lord, Bless This Defender of Freedom
Experimental National Committee: "We The Blog" Activated
Publisher's Weekly: Nations of the Mind: Poetry, Publishing and Public
Debate
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (part 1)
Tom Raworth: Doodles from the Vive la France series
Observer UK: The man who wasn't there
AFP: Bombings kill 48 more civilians south of Baghdad
Letter from Elliott Colla
newyork2baghdad: Puke In
Stan Goff: Hard Rain
Boston Globe: The Cheney Connection
American Peace Activists Confirm Iraqi Hospital Bombed
Carla Harryman: from a Journal [March 18, 2003]
Margaret Atwood: Letter To America
LINKS
counterpunch: muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey
St. Clair
commondreams.org: "breaking news and views for the progressive community"
zmag.org: the ultimate portal for progressive opinion and activism around
the world
rabble.ca: activist news and forum site based in canada
get your war on: good, sophisticated but lowbrow political humor
independent.co.uk: very informative news site, including writing by robert
fisk in bagdhad
united for peace: place to go for marches and events announcements plus news
poets for peace: new site with announcements for poet/poetry related
anti-war activities
poets against the war: another new site where you can post poems, partake in
actions, etc.
indymedia.org: the url says it all, with valuable links to local indy media
sites
yahoo! news: collects the most recent stories from reuters, ap, afp, npr,
etc., with much video and audio
whitehouse.org: this is a great parody of the official white house site --
poster art, onion-style news stories, etc.
greenpeace.org: site of environmental activist group; also contains original
news stories.
electronicIraq.net: news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran
antiwar campaigners
AlterNet.org: alternative journalism site, project of the Independent Media
Institute
hacktivismo: good news source, read how it all plays out in the world of
politicized hackers
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New York Times: The "Fox" Effect
POLI SCI: political science writings of Language poet Bruce Andrews
In Fraud We Trust (image map dollar)
Onion: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
Did CNN Turn Up Boos During Michael Moore's Speech?
Tom Raworth: Listen Up
Already Fucked Up
Already marked down
Time Disappears Bush Sr. Article Against War With Iraq
gvus.org: Global Vote for U.S. President
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (last part)
The Progressive: The Peace Candidate
Robert Fisk: Library Books, Letters and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze
in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad
ZNet: Noam Chomsky Interviewed
Dagens Nyheter: US Troops Initiated Plundering
Student poets victimised for anti-war stance
Gwynne Dyer: Ignorant Armies
Reverend Billy's Peace Revival And Tax Revolt!
SF Chronicle: A Permanent Patriot Act?
NY Times: Conquest and Neglect
Iraqi Regime Playing Cards
The Triumph of Corporate Monoculture
Voices in the Wilderness/Iraq peace team: Dispatch from Baghdad
Staged "Liberation" media event?
1974 vs. 1989 vs. NOW
Kit Robinson: April Fool's Day / Rae Armantrout: Thing
The People's Poetry: Iraq: A Reading of Iraqi Poetry
Poets for Peace: Reading Aprill 11
Michael Moore: Ironies of "Backlash"
New York Times: US Army Depots Named After Oil Giants
Erwin Piscator
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (another slab)
Packaging the Emir (excerpt from Toxic Sludge is Good For You)
Chronicle of Higher Education: Florida Legislature to Consider Banning Aid
to Students From 6 Countries Listed as
Gothic News: Linguistic Reformulation: Forthcoming Challenges in a
Democratic Occupied Iraq
Jonathan Skinner: Of Pissants and Peace Bridges
Robert Kocik: The Other Front
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra II (excerpt)
"Smoking Gun" WMD Site in Iraq Turns Out to Contain Pesticide
Udall Backs Creating Department of Peace
PNAC: Rebuilding America's Defenses
Food Warz: Kellogs in France
Widespread Use of Cluster Bombs Sparks Outrage
ElectronicIraq.net: US warplanes bomb Al Jazeera office, kill journalist
Denver Post: 3 Nuns Guilty in Silo Protest
Photos/Reports from 4/7 Oakland Protests
SUNY at Buffalo Poetics Against the War
The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War
Cair Action Alert #376: President Bush Asked To Rescind Nomination Of
'Islamophobe'
The Iraq Body Count Database
The Propaganda Remix Project
LEA Call for Papers: Artists and Scientists in Times of War
LA Times: Photoshopping In Iraq
Washington Post: Columnist/Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq
Gothic News: Code "Onion" at both White House & Fox TV
Edwin Starr R.I.P.
Slate: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
Anthology of Poets Against the War
VoteToImpeach Movement
Moveon.org: Important: Letters on the future of Iraq
Reuters: Bill in Oregon Seeks to Jail War Protesters as Terrorists
Greenpeace: US to UN: Butt out
Kucinich Takes To House Floor To Oppose War Supplemental
whitehouse.org: Fancy a Snort of Yank Bum?
Ron Silliman: Barbarians
Gothic News: Reviving Uncle Sam: Bicycles to Pull Corpse Across America
365Gay.com: Gay Eye On Baghdad
16Beaver: Weekend of April 16 Events
United for Peace: Honor Dr. King's Legacy, Stop the War!
PAUL CHAN: BAGHDAD: HOME MOVIES
Greg Fuchs: The Antiwar Movement is Alive (with photodocumenary)
Robert Fisk: Wailing children, the wounded, the dead: victims of the day
cluster bombs rained on Babylon
ZNET: Iraq War Quiz
Note from BKS
Feds "Disappear" Intel Programmer
Saddam SMS
Daniel Cohn-Bendit debates Richard Perle
Washington Post: Hackers Plan to Protest Iraq War
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex II
Exposing the Ducts
National Day of Direct Action on A7
The Onion: "I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About
America"
CNN: Geraldo leaves Iraq To Avoid Being Thrown Out
Peter Arnett: "They Don't Want Credible News Organisations Reporting From
Here"
Democracy Now: US Military Detains & Beats Non-Embedded Journalists
nationalphilistine.com: Free Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training Workshop
/ Baghdad Home Movies
Collectibles Today: Lord, Bless This Defender of Freedom
Experimental National Committee: "We The Blog" Activated
Publisher's Weekly: Nations of the Mind: Poetry, Publishing and Public
Debate
Allen Ginsberg: Wichita Vortex Sutra (part 1)
Tom Raworth: Doodles from the Vive la France series
Observer UK: The man who wasn't there
AFP: Bombings kill 48 more civilians south of Baghdad
Letter from Elliott Colla
newyork2baghdad: Puke In
Stan Goff: Hard Rain
Boston Globe: The Cheney Connection
American Peace Activists Confirm Iraqi Hospital Bombed
Carla Harryman: from a Journal [March 18, 2003]
Margaret Atwood: Letter To America
LINKS
counterpunch: muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey
St. Clair
commondreams.org: "breaking news and views for the progressive community"
zmag.org: the ultimate portal for progressive opinion and activism around
the world
rabble.ca: activist news and forum site based in canada
get your war on: good, sophisticated but lowbrow political humor
independent.co.uk: very informative news site, including writing by robert
fisk in bagdhad
united for peace: place to go for marches and events announcements plus news
poets for peace: new site with announcements for poet/poetry related
anti-war activities
poets against the war: another new site where you can post poems, partake in
actions, etc.
indymedia.org: the url says it all, with valuable links to local indy media
sites
yahoo! news: collects the most recent stories from reuters, ap, afp, npr,
etc., with much video and audio
whitehouse.org: this is a great parody of the official white house site --
poster art, onion-style news stories, etc.
greenpeace.org: site of environmental activist group; also contains original
news stories.
electronicIraq.net: news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by veteran
antiwar campaigners
AlterNet.org: alternative journalism site, project of the Independent Media
Institute
hacktivismo: good news source, read how it all plays out in the world of
politicized hackers
RECENT COMMENTS
re: Already Fucked Up