Category: <span>Culture</span>

Category: Culture

BLOOD AND SOIL, TRUMP AND INCEST

Extracted from Sensitive Skin Magazine. This piece was published May 12, 2019. Link to full text follows. Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933/1943) poses a question familiar to many Americans bewildered by the presidency of Donald Trump and the igneous qualities of his base. That the question was answered so …

WHAT IS INDEPENDENCE?

Galeano Lives! Painting a Zapatista Teacher from Schools for Chiapas on Vimeo. In solidarity with the Zapatistas and Schools for Chiapas, I dedicate this Mexican Independence Day to the recognition that independence, if it is an honest idea, is not monolithic, that it contains pluralities. The Zapatistas want a world …

DODIE BELLAMY’S ‘WHEN THE SICK RULE THE WORLD’ REVIEWED FOR THE RUMPUS

Literary magazine site The Rumpus published James Reich’s review of Dodie Bellamy’s When The Sick Rule The World. Here’s an extract, and a link to the full review, that itself garnered praise from The Poetry Foundation. “Dodie Bellamy’s latest work, When The Sick Rule The World, is a series of biting, …

ARTHUR CRAVAN: POET, PROVOCATEUR, PONCE, AND THE QUEERING OF THE QUEENSBURY RULES

Published in full at the literary/cultural magazine The Weeklings:  “Arthur Cravan Cravan’s father, Otho Lloyd, was the brother of Oscar Wilde’s beard/wife Constance; therefore, Cravan was Wilde’s nephew. Throughout his turbulent and transnational life, Cravan assumed and performed multiple aliases, of which several —Dorian Hope, Sebastian Hope and B. Holland— are …

NORTHERN ZAPATISTA

NORTHERN ZAPATISTA: New work at Bold Type Magazine. Bush-Clinton, Resistance to Neoliberalism, Hillary’s prevarication over TPP, what the pundits don’t get about the nature of the leftward swing of the north, understood through the indigenous revolutions in the south…zeitgeist, history and holograms… (Extract)…Now we come to the key to understanding …

ANDRÉ BRETON & ARACHNID WRITING

It’s ninety years since André Breton — re Surrealism and the extravagant possibilities of ‘marvelous’ literature — wrote: “At an early age children are weaned on the marvelous, and later on they fail to retain a sufficient virginity of mind to thoroughly enjoy fairy tales. No matter how charming they …

ON THE BEACH

ON THE BEACH – Dali, Ballard, Neil Young and Cadillac Ranch James Reich, First Published by The End Of Being, August 21, 2011. The warped pataphysical pocket watches of Salvador Dali’s small canvas The Persistence of Memory continued to mark molecular time from 1931 until the spring of 1974, when their position …

BOXING WITH LOVECRAFT

H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Boxing James Reich April 25th, 2014 Of the grotesqueries depicted in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Herbert West: Reanimator, beyond the ambivalent reclamation by the Anglo-Saxon war dead of Herbert West the Aryan “scientific automaton”, the “ice-cold intellectual machine”, the most appalling is the appearance of …

FREUD: THE PENULTIMATE BIOGRAPHY

FREUD: THE PENULTIMATE BIOGRAPHY by D. Harlan Wilson, Reviewed by James Reich April 10th, 2014 Ceci n’est pas une livre… This is not a book. It is an algorithm. D. Harlan Wilson’s trilogy of Hitler: The Terminal Biography; Freud: The Penultimate Biography; and Douglass: The Lost Autobiography are Magrittesque artifacts. Certainly not biographies in the conventional …

WHAT’S INSIDE A GIRL? Mary Shelley and the Ventriloquism of the Undead

FICTION ADVOCATE February 1st, 1014 Two hundred years ago, in the spring of 1814, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin began her romance with Percy Bysshe Shelley—a romance shadowed by dreadful mortality, but which birthed Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus in 1818. February 1st is the anniversary of her death in 1851. The name Frankenstein as a unit …

THE MONK & THE SKEPTIC – INTERVIEW

THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN – Frank Browning interviewed by James Reich January 22nd, 2014 To read Frank Browning’s latest book The Monk and the Skeptic: Dialogues on Sex, Faith, and Religion is to eavesdrop on series of confessionals, and to be party to the converse positions and erotic agreements of Browning and Brother …

LAURENCE A. RICKELS: SPECTRE

SPECTRE BY LAURENCE A. RICKELS, Reviewed by James Reich December 19th, 2013 Laurence A. Rickels, The Man With The Golden Pun, has turned his cryptic genius on the James Bond novels of Ian Fleming, specifically the occult, neurotic currents flowing beneath those works where 007 battles SPECTRE, headed—baldly—by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. …