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Dialogue is the intent of the latest installation of Drunken Boat, its taxonomy steered by the spaces of perception that open between media. Among many other provocative creations, we‚ve included a new poem by Rosanna Warren, Mark Sptizer's translation of a never-before-seen lyric of Rimbaud, Emma Braslavsky's visual aphorisms, Mac Dunlop's improvised comic audio dialogue, Machfield's eerily iridescent video installation, and a selection of photographs by Andrija Ilic that document how Serbia's natural and cultural monuments persist in the face of civil war. As always, we're interested in your responses to this miscellany of work and invite you to sound off to: editors@drunkenboat.com. Over the course of the last year, Drunken Boat has also become a non-profit organization, and if you're interested in helping sustain the journal, please note that you can now make a tax-deductible donation online. >donate now Indeed, to expend energy, on a local and personal level, to make art, to protest a regime, to delve into internal depths, to emerge raw and bothered, to have a conversation—these acts can translate into sweeping change, at a time when the need for conscientious activism and informed protest has never been greater. The U.S. has a Department of State which very clearly articulates its policy http://www.state.gov/s/p/rem/9632.htm: "You will note that I said "foreign policy"—singular˜ not 'foreign policies'—plural. On the international front, we need to move in one direction, not many" Richard N. Haass, Director of U.S. Policy Planning Staff baldly states, proclaiming that "the principal aim of American foreign policy is to integrate other countries and organizations into arrangements that will sustain a world consistent with U.S. interests and values, and thereby promote peace, prosperity, and justice as widely as possible." There's no evasion here. Scarily, the dehumanizing rhetoric of expansionism is given full sail, and the proposed end is clear: you're either with us or against us. It's against the tyranny of this pronoun usage that we give you this issue (and the links below). We move in many directions, not one. —Editors, Drunken Boat, November 2002 http://www.moveon.org http://www.counterpunch.org http://www.austinagainstwar.org http://www.planetark.org http://www.oneworld.net http://www.kabissa.org http://www.alternet.org >TOP |
