Cartel of Defiance

cartel of defiance (noun): 1. In medieval combat, a formal declaration, delivered by herald, of a combatant's intention to fight and refusal to submit. 2. An electronic assemblage of engaged and enraged citizens. 3. An intertextual mode of reading, writing, and thinking that puts the current political, cultural, and personal moment in dialogue with text/art from the past in counterargument to the ahistorical Memory Hole into which America seems to have slipped.

Friday, April 07, 2006

S.O.S.

a blue French telegram, curiosity to show: Nother dying come home father.
-- James Joyce, Ulysses

"The attacks came as the American ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said in an interview with the BBC that if a unified government was not formed soon, a sectarian war could erupt in Iraq and that such a war could engulf the entire Middle East."
-- Edward Wong, "Suicide Bombers Kill at Least 71 at Shiite Mosque" NY Times, April 8

posted by awol | 11:51 PM

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