i’ll set myself on fire now

Only six more days left to receive a personalized, hand-written prose explosion from Marvin K. Mooney when you purchase a copy of the novel. The MKM Society has posted one that Mooney wrote to a reader in Swaziland, South Africa:

"I am with you in Swaziland, Salia. I am with you, I am understanding you, I am not judging you, I am quietly agreeing with you, always....[more]"



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Sophie Mörner





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Jaimie Warren








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Penny Slinger





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Joshua Petker














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Sam Weber








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Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn
"Beat It"





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Andy Kehoe








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Reza Rasoli








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Matthew Raw





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Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology ("OOO" for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally—plumbers, cotton, bonobos, DVD players, and sandstone, for example. In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves.

Listen to the speakers @ the recent OOO symposium



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Manjari Sharma





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Agata Nowicka





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Laurel Howells








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Jacqueline Rush Lee





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Marius Engh





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Fabian Seiz











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Un calendrier. Des pin-ups. Et des rayons X. Le résultat est fascinant.








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Heather Hart





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"The spider and salt hearts were retrieved from the 17th lacustrine vault of the robots, and it is to the robots with their worship of Quaterniana in all its varieties that we must direct our thanks for the majority of the images herein."

The Spider and Salt Hearts: A Fragment
by
Mark Edmund Doten



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Jessica Harrison











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"Triumph for Giacomo Puccini who manages to put 3 of his works in the top four. Efficiency and flair are indeed awarded the grand prize. This result could be debated at length; however, wouldn't it be the way to demonstrate that in order to succeed within the widest international repertory possible, the least common denominator is needed? The second prize goes to Giuseppe Verdi, who even passes his fellow countryman in terms of number of operas produced."

AN OPERATIC SURVEY
by
Alain P. Dornic



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not to be confused with Marvin K.,
Jock Mooney











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"The Carter Documentary"
directed by Adam Bhala Lough



[the rest of the doc]

key to our exponential trajectory

Jessica Hans





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"Whatever wrong is inflicted upon him, the poet describes as an ‘empty act’ and a ‘lie’, expressing a feeling of betrayal caused by his external surroundings. Nevertheless, he desires for the heaviness of the pain to be dispersed by the waves and to dissolve in the oceanic depths which he describes as the ‘reaches of the vague’. Speaking of such an unfathomable environment in which no human life can possibly survive, the poet alludes to the penetrating nature of the watery depths melting the concreteness of his pain (‘in which all the real dissolves’). Epitomising the agonistic attitude, he does not seem to express any intention of leaving the abyssal space where his pain is to be diffused."

The Avant-garde as Ideological Movement and Psychic State



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Junichi Sakamoto








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Luciano Chessa performs Cangiullo's Piedigrotta





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Jared Boger








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Nicholas Gottlund








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Marc Tallec's "Disparition"









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Michael Kenna





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Marlon Kowalski





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"Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level"
Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University





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"Language as material, language as process, language as something to be shoveled into a machine and spread across pages, only to be discarded and recycled once again. Language as junk, language as detritus. Nutritionless language, meaningless language, unloved language, entartete sprache, everyday speech, illegibility, unreadability, machinistic repetition. Obsessive archiving & cataloging, the debased language of media & advertising; language more concerned with quantity than quality. How much did you say that paragraph weighed?"

Conceptual Poetics
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Kenneth Goldsmith



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Claire Watkins





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M.I.A. - "Born Free" Live on Letterman





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Fernando Mastrangelo





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Chad Stayrook





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Leandro Erlich





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Saskia Edens - Make-up 2008





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Sarah Applebaum











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"What unfolded in the next two hours was unlike anything either one of us had ever witnessed. It wasn't just insane, it was incomprehensible. And it wasn't just bad, it went to the point of defining pretension. And that's when I knew how to classify a truly "bad" film: It was a film that was a disaster on all levels but had the notion of being a masterpiece. And once it has been deconstructed, it clear that Robert Altman thought that he had produced and directed the best film ever made."

The Worst Film Ever Made?





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You are stuffing doves into burlap bags. Three doves sport bicycle tattoos. Five doves wear bowler hats. Seven doves trill through red clown’s lips instead of appropriately pequeno beaks. One dove never stops winking at you. Once, you paused to scratch with a missing finger. What algebraic relationship moved you to bestow on mundane pigeons the halos of peace and other faux debris from trawling old memories of a desire-ridden imagination that would come to plummet into ruin?

from ORPHANED ALGEBRA
by
Eileen R. Tabios



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Renaldo and the Loaf - Songs For Swinging Larvae (1981)

[beautiful-schizo-experimental-razzmatazz]