Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Whole Whale: A Poem by Haley Lasché

We feel lucky in moments we’ve survived the heart
saved the whole whale: oil, fire.
We build a tent out of bones
the red red red of shadow inside a canyon
keeping us close enough
though our desires scream: splitter.
An equal love spreads over the tongue
holding us down; guiding us back.
We hold our teeth inside our mouths
careful not to push [...]

“Everyone agrees. It’s about to explode.”

On Wednesday Fox New’s Glenn Beck launched into a wonderful tirade against The Coming Insurrectionby the anonymous Invisible Committee, a “dangerous book” about to be published in English by Semiotext(e)/MIT Press.  Originally published in French in 2007, it has since been used as a crucial piece of evidence against the so-called Tarnac 9 in a controversial anti-terrorism trial in [...]

Formulary for a New Urbanism

SIRE, I AM FROM THE OTHER COUNTRY

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That’s lost. We know how to read every promise in faces — the latest [...]