New spread issue xii (cream) now spreading...
Spread 12 is finally out.114-kilobytes of creamy spread writing to blow your mind. The better to mark four straight years of underground publishing in the new medium. And so to you— whoever the spread you are— here's a toast to the ghost. Let it roll!.
7:14 PM 7/22/04
Poetic trash...
Faced with unintelligible poetry, the typical reader goes through stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. By the way, the poetry is still garbage. read on.
12:16 AM 7/22/04
Spandex swastika...
Fascists hate homosexuality, but many fascists are gay. “Scratch the homophobic surface and there’s a spandex swastika underneath,” says Johann Hari. more.
11:10 PM 7/21/04
The beauty crisis...
Cosmetic surgery is a kind of democratic solution to an undemocratic problem: the uneven distribution of beauty. more.
6:41 AM 7/21/04
The next terrorist attack...
All bets are on: when’s the next terrorist attack? Will cellular life be found on Mars? Can the prediction markets predict? read on..
5:35 AM 7/20/04
The reason for critics...
If the arts so richly embody human experience, why do we need critics? Why not just give people Mozart, Keats, and Picasso? Helen Vendler has an answer. read on.
4:52 AM 7/20/04
Land art...
Land art: enduring, cosmic monuments to nature and the human spirit, or just empty monuments to artistic ego? read on.
4:40 AM 7/20/04
Critical debility...
The old guard sees cultural criticism as debilitated, even moribund, launched from behind the walls of academe. Just nostalgia for a non-existent golden age? read on.
8:36 PM 7/19/04
Writer's bloc...
Coleridge was tormented by it, Valéry took 20 years off, Rimbaud just gave up. What happens to writers when words won’t come? read on.
3:55 AM 7/18/04
Chemical consciousness...
How can billions of neurons swapping chemicals make for consciousness and knowing that others are conscious and self-aware? read on.
6:40 PM 7/17/04
Violence on violent video...
Legislators and activists who want some titles kept out of kids' hands are on the warpath again against the video-game industry. Game makers, however, seem to delight in amping up the virtual gore. read on.
1:22 AM 7/16/04
On the bio-art case...
An artist, whose possession of bacteria and DNA samples set off an investigation after his wife was found dead in their home, is charged with obtaining biological materials illegally. Another academic is also indicted for helping obtain the materials. read on.
2:13 AM 7/15/04
New art.ill.ery...
You positively absolutely must check out these two new additions to our growing art.ill.ery, right here right now:
Dmitri V. Poltavski's "drop art" —art without routine, art without personal history...
David Kessel's art about the web —web art turning on itself, or how to romanticize the web...
4:40 PM 6/19/04
Hyperpoetic tension...
The new issue (spread xii) in the works should take a while arriving. Mid July or early August, tops..
The poet Makab, who happens to share the mighty editorial chore with me, is taking his sweet time off, after having been twice diagnosed as suffering from essential hypertension— an ailment involving blood, sex, and magick. Among other things.
The good news about being essentially hypertense is that you never know you've got it until somebody tells you, which is when the good news becomes bad, because then you become really, truly hypertense.
The bad thing about it? You can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't eat crispy pata. Which is to say you can't live. But hey, who's stopping you? He should be up, smoking and drinking and eating crispy pata sooner than we all think. Go well, bro —Titus Brutus
1:30 AM 6/19/04
wwweb_worthy sites...
While you're at it, check out our friends...
From the United States, Pidjin -is an online artists community that exhibits work in all media.
From Switzerland, Krabatof Philharmonic Orchestra - is a platform for visual and sound experimentation made of primitive and grotesque creations interconnected together in a chaotic way.
From France, Grenze - the site of the multimedia project Grenze according to the Capital of Karl Marx. Aelters electronic musician composes.
From elsewhere, Dong Makab's new baby Loertha for more of his words, love, and plain old death...
And don't forget to check out our friends at Furtherfield.org before you kill your browser and log off...
4:10 PM 6/18/04
Solutions, solutions...
Worldwide, millions live in poverty, sicken, and die. What are the best, fastest, most efficient ways to help them? The answers...
2:14 PM 6/18/04
More Moore...
Right-wing groups are launching a campaign to stop Michael Moore's film from being seen. Though information yearns to be free, will the right manage to yoke Moore's message? More...
8:38 AM 6/17/04
Conspiratorial illuminati...
Conspiracy theories feed off the jumbled mythologies of secret societies, with the Illuminati somewhere in the fog... Here...
7:30 AM 6/17/04
Some science project...
Call it conceptual art, a joke, or an experiment. A scientist goes on eBay offering to the highest bidder a chance to co-author a scholarly paper... Here...
5:52 AM 6/17/04
Global flash...
The flash mob phenomenon— where people come together quickly to perform random, inane acts before vanishing— goes global this weekend. The logistics should be interesting.
4:11 AM 6/17/04
Avant gay?
Jean Cocteau dined, fought, and even collaborated with the whole of avant-garde Paris. His own art was dismissed as the work of a frivolous queen... Here...
2:01 AM 6/17/04
Mandog...
Imagine waking up every morning thrilled it’s another day of fun and adventure. Not to fret, only to love. Imagine being a dog...
3:15 AM 6/16/04
Size matters...
The director of the documentary, Super Size Me, ate nothing but McDonald's for 30 days. The results weren't pretty— either for him or the fast food industry.
1:12 AM 6/16/04
the_spreadshop (beta version) now open...
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Welcome to the_spreadshop...
3:52 AM 5/30/04
Osmubal and Stansbury on art.ill.ery...
Jeremiah Stansbury joins our proud art.ill.ery with four of his mindbending autobiographical paintings...
Also: Papa Osmubal's 13 'Black & White' watercolors...
12:52 AM 5/29/04
Philosophy of disgust...
Unflushed public toilets, flies in your soup, rotting meat, cockroaches: useful images for a philosophy of disgust... Here...
12:52 AM 5/28/04
Is Bush the Anti-Buddha?
A Buddhist confronts his anger towards the president. How does a student of the Dharma deal with the rising temptation to wish ill on the perpetrators of shocking and detestable undertakings? Here
2:26 AM 5/27/04
Alternate future....
Imagine cultural future where the needs of the body rule, mind and soul are discredited, a world where executions are its tragedies, pornography is its romance... More...
11:18 PM 5/26/04
Banned album covers...
From phallic fingers and bare bums to terrorist targets and rape. The record sleeves that went that little bit too far?
12:55 AM 5/25/04
What's in a bandname?
Where do names like 10CC, Aphex Twin, Everything But The Girl, Jane's Addiction, Moby, The Ramones, They Might Be Giants, or others originate? Find out here...
12:12 AM 5/24/04
Top 10 conspiracy theories of 2003-2004...
Is the end of the world now? Are we out of oil? What prior dealings did the US have with Iraq? Conspiracies abound. How near is the truth? More...
1:51 AM 5/23/04
Spread issue xi (score) now spreading...
Every issue of spread presents works by authors individually distinguishing themselves by boldly tapping what they can from the rich possibilities of thought and creativity that vigorously thrive, either at the fringes or in the depths, beyond the comfort zones of the literary establishment.
Let's examine this issue.
In "This Is Why When I Was Fifteen Years Old I Took Over The World," Luke Buckham departs from his previous vast ventures into crevices and continents of available angst (see past spread). The piece attempts to draw larger amoristic meaning from barbed nothings traded between "boy and girl." Buckham shifts back to his true form in "Recovery."
The slash-riddled "Untitled" by Natalie Sliskovic, on the other hand, spouts blood of revolution abrewing, rising up not so much from the boil of patriotic or proletarian cauldron as from the coming to blows imminent in suburbian and domestic "pots and pans."
Expect to be abruptly lifted out from the dark and dire domains of Sliskovic and Buckham with Doug Tanoury's "Nine Poems." Generous spread is given Tanoury's collection the better to appreciate his exhilirating Biblical-cum-mythical takes.
Next, dismantling Tanoury's metrical intermission, are Irene Koronas's "just because he's standing don't mean he's dancing at night" and "coming to understand the father of dada," that work in tandem seeking coherence in the chaos of life, love and art--or is it chaos informing coherence? Koronas implores in the latter poem: "who is feeding the emptiness?"
Also in this issue is "The Dearth Of The Author" by Henri d'Mescan and Davis Schneiderman. Future or science fiction comes to mind; except that in d'Mescan and Schneiderman's sketch wounds gape and voices gasp in the unmistakable tormented neighborhood of now.
Thus scores another spread. —Dong Makabali
3:23 PM 5/16/04
New mind cakes in the works...
Who eats the cake? You tell me... Hopia.
3:23 PM 5/16/04
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