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Blast Counterblast
Blast Counterblast is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact—through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis’s modernist publication BLAST and Marshall McLuhan’s 1969 response to it, COUNTERBLAST, the contributors to this volume—a selection of writers, visual artists, performers, and filmmakers—skewer relational aesthetics and identity politics in order to restate what the role of identity formation is today. Taking McLuhan and Lewis as starting points, the essays in this volume develop and push the ideas presented in both BLAST and COUNTERBLAST while the book design pays homage to both thinkers’ experiments in typography. Blast Counterblast includes the writings of Maria Fusco, Michael Hoolboom, My Barbarian, Lane Relyea, and Ryan Trecartin.
Table of Contents
The Modern Black Sabbath
Academy Records
Introduction
Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke
1-0 Without Which (Preliminaries)
1-1 Wyndham Lewis and Mark E. Smith
Stuart Bailey
1-2 Dear Living Person
John Russell
1-3 Dear Radical Artist (Unforgettable You)
Lane Relyea
2-0 Empathy is a Tool for Making the Cruelty More Precise (Animals, Children)
2-1 Art is for Empathy
Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
2-2 Between Haircuts by Children and The Best Sex I Ever Had: An Interview with Darren O’Donnell
Mike Hoolboom
2-3 Social Practice, Children and the Possibility of Friendship
Darren O’Donnell
2-4 The Lesser Animals
Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
2-5 Dialogue Between Animals
Jessie Mott
2-6 The Pig’s Tail
Nelson Henricks
2-7 The Lonliest Animals
Christine Negus
2-8 Death Park
Maria Fusco
3-0 Death Camp
3-1 Own Stories
Andrej Blatnik
3-2 Deat Camp
Elijah Burgher
3-3 What is the Anal Swastika?
Elijah Burgher
3-4 The Gossip and Ghosts of Colin Campbell
Jon Davies
3-5 Excerpt from "The Re’Search"
Ryan Trecartin
3-6 Suicide Fox
Matthea Harvey and Adam Shecter
4-0 Extra Life
4-1 Precision Cut
Mike Hoolboom
4-2 The Five Principles of PoLAAT
My Barbarian
4-3 Employing My Double
Erin Leland
4-4 Accidental Sightings
Erin Leland
4-5 Architectural Uses of Some Qualities of Music
Irena Knezevic
4-6 withblast
Joerg Becker and Irena Knezevic
4-7 Elegance is Refusal
Cameron Crawford
4-8 Presentation Theme
Jim Trainor
Contributors
Academy Records
Introduction
Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke
1-0 Without Which (Preliminaries)
1-1 Wyndham Lewis and Mark E. Smith
Stuart Bailey
1-2 Dear Living Person
John Russell
1-3 Dear Radical Artist (Unforgettable You)
Lane Relyea
2-0 Empathy is a Tool for Making the Cruelty More Precise (Animals, Children)
2-1 Art is for Empathy
Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
2-2 Between Haircuts by Children and The Best Sex I Ever Had: An Interview with Darren O’Donnell
Mike Hoolboom
2-3 Social Practice, Children and the Possibility of Friendship
Darren O’Donnell
2-4 The Lesser Animals
Emily vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
2-5 Dialogue Between Animals
Jessie Mott
2-6 The Pig’s Tail
Nelson Henricks
2-7 The Lonliest Animals
Christine Negus
2-8 Death Park
Maria Fusco
3-0 Death Camp
3-1 Own Stories
Andrej Blatnik
3-2 Deat Camp
Elijah Burgher
3-3 What is the Anal Swastika?
Elijah Burgher
3-4 The Gossip and Ghosts of Colin Campbell
Jon Davies
3-5 Excerpt from "The Re’Search"
Ryan Trecartin
3-6 Suicide Fox
Matthea Harvey and Adam Shecter
4-0 Extra Life
4-1 Precision Cut
Mike Hoolboom
4-2 The Five Principles of PoLAAT
My Barbarian
4-3 Employing My Double
Erin Leland
4-4 Accidental Sightings
Erin Leland
4-5 Architectural Uses of Some Qualities of Music
Irena Knezevic
4-6 withblast
Joerg Becker and Irena Knezevic
4-7 Elegance is Refusal
Cameron Crawford
4-8 Presentation Theme
Jim Trainor
Contributors