An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
capitalism Archive
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Samoan “Chief Tuiavii” on European Decadence in ‘The Papalagi’
Posted on September 10, 2020 | 2 CommentsIn 1920, Erich Scheurmann translated into German the speeches of Samoan Chief' Tuiavii from the village of Tiavea, a work called The Papalagi (The White People) that describes his impressions of European culture formed during a tour as part of a traveling show. Tuiavii's depictions of the greed and hypocrisy of the civilized Europeans has become a post-hippie inspiration for a counterculture movement to break out of the rigid confines of corporate capitalism. -
An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
Posted on May 14, 2020 | No CommentsThe Michael Moore-produced, Jeff Gibbs video, Planet of the Humans, uses the capitalism onslaught that has caused disaster across the planet as an Earth Day opportunity to lob spitballs at environmental movements and prominent advocates. While it can't even manage any more cogent solutions than vague assertions about curbing population and over-consumption, it also fails to see the monster who stands before it: the system, which needs to be overcome, immediately. -
Pushing Back Against the Venezuela Coup-Plotters
Posted on January 30, 2019 | 3 CommentsAn attempted coup is underway in Venezuela, call it what you like. While the Bolivarian Revolution has had its problems, U.S. sanctions have devastated its economy and people. Negotiations led by Mexico, Uruguay, and the Vatican are the only sane way forward. -
Geo-Fauvism and Anthropocene: Altered Planet, Wild Literature
Posted on June 4, 2016 | 3 CommentsWelcome to the Anthropocene age, where humans have transmogrified the planet, its oceans and atmosphere, caused mass extinctions and wholesale contamination that will remain for millennia. Beyond the politicians and scientists, the way forward remains in the hands of writers, artists, and designers taking inspiration from wild earth in a movement called Geo-Fauvism. -
B. Traven: Underground Anarchist in the Mexican Jungle
Posted on March 27, 2016 | 4 CommentsB. Traven, German underground author, anarchist and writer of the Treasure of Sierra Madre, purposely obscured his origins to evade consequences from his revolutionary past in Germany and to stoke his literary mystery that hinged upon his words: "An author should have no other biography than his books." -
Kogi People’s Lesson From the Heart of the Mountain
Posted on January 22, 2016 | 1 CommentThe Kogi People of Colombia, through two separate documentaries, delivered a message of a sustainable interconnection with nature and community as a way to avert climate and ecological destruction. -
The Big Short: A Culture Charmed by a Smiling Oligarchy
Posted on January 8, 2016 | No CommentsGuy Zimmerman, in reviewing the new Wall Street film The Big Short, muses on the desperate conformity required in today's entertainment in this new Gilded Age of oligarchy and disempowerment that has overtaken culture in the U.S. -
Is Classical Music, and the Desire for Rebellion, Dead?
Posted on August 2, 2015 | No CommentsDo today’s elite lack the patience and culture for classical music? Or is it a matter of cultural dominance of the popular, the fame producing, and capital revenue streams which have sacrificed painstaking complex creation? John Halle opines. -
Free Trade Cities in Honduras: A Dangerous Experiment
Posted on February 2, 2015 | 3 CommentsThe tiny forgotten Pacific port town of Amapala, among volcanic island sands and stifling heat, is proposed as the site of a radical libertarian experiment: an autonomous free trade city, a haven for multi-national corporations. And the locals are not celebrating. -
Will Self: Talentless Hipsters and Commodification Culture
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 3 CommentsThis awful cult of talentless hipsters has its Mecca in Los Angeles, according to Will Self. He asserts his generation took the avant-garde and turned it into a successful rearguard action by the flying columns of capitalism’s blitzkrieg. What to make of the commodification and democratization of culture, and where to go from here? -
The Ongoing Reconsideration of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Posted on August 30, 2014 | 1 CommentChampion of the disinherited of postwar Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterworks prefigured his country's fall to a consumerist Heart of Darkness, an uncompromising vision that may have led to his own wretched death. A biopic by Abel Ferrara that premiered at the Venice biennale reconstructed the last hours of the Italian film director, who was murdered in 1975. -
The Climate Movement: Direct Action Against Extreme Fossil Fuels
Posted on September 5, 2013 | 1 CommentDavid Osborn from Rising Tide asserts all new fossil fuel extraction must immediately stop if we want any chance of a habitable climate and a livable future. The climate movement needs more actions like Swamp Line 9 in Ontario, which shut down a pumping station to protest the Enbridge Line 9 Tar Sands Pipeline Reversal. -
This Country’s Going to Socialist Hell – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on August 24, 2013 | 1 CommentJerry Collamer on the state of the nation's political dialogue ongoing in BlondCounty and at a diner near you. -
Earth Day: Sustainability Movement Heals Humanity in the Wild
Posted on April 20, 2013 | 2 CommentsOn Earth Day, world ecosystems face imminent danger from humanity's ecological overreach and climate change. Following the original 1970 theme of a national teach-in, promoting awareness of the acute problems, we must pose solutions to advance environmental sustainability, building a movement to work toward its implementation. -
Stories of a Maya Rebirth: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Posted on September 8, 2012 | 1 CommentThe documentary "Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth" presents an alternative worldview to industrial capitalism consuming the earth, following six young Maya into their daily and ceremonial life, revealing their determination to resist the destruction of their culture and environment. -
Chiapas: Freedom and Justice for Zapatista Communities
Posted on July 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe Zapatista community of San Marcos Avilés, composed of Tzeltal indigenous people, calls for international solidarity in their struggle for autonomy and natural resource protection from oppressive and violent forces of Mexico's entrenched neoliberal economy. -
H. G. Wells on the Futurist Dystopia of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”
Posted on July 15, 2012 | 6 Comments"Metropolis" hallucinates a futuristic city, a paradise of glass and steel, where underground workers toil endlessly at the giant machines that run the world above. Controlled by the autocratic industrialist, his spoilt son falls for the working class prophet who envisions some mediation between workers and managers. Noted science fiction author H. G. Wells reviews the controversial 1927 masterpiece. -
Diego Rivera and the Fall and Rise of Detroit
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 7 CommentsViewed today, Rivera's "Detroit Industry" murals might have prefigured Detroit's downfall, but also envision a renaissance. It harkens to the earth, the races living and working in harmony, where sections of the city have been cleared of distressed neighborhoods and allowed to regrow with food crops, grasses and trees.
