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WORKS BOTH UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN
Advice to the civilized about the coming social metamorphosis by Charles Fourier (1830)
00:12:08 mp3 / Mispronounced French, English / ISBN 0521356148
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, anti-philosophy, phalanx, food, build temporary buildings, difference between writing and idea, critics can go to hell, the coming future.

Response to a request by Robert Walser (1903)
00:05:26 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0940322986
KEYWORDS: Art, story, parataxis, loneliness, loveliness, knife in eyeball, theatricality,weeping, humility.

Underlined sections from Orthodoxy by G K Chesterton (1908)
00:04:32 mp3 / No problemo / ISBN 0898705525
KEYWORDS: Theology, Love, topsy turvy, Christ, pessimists, Satan, gravity, love again.

Theologico historical fragment by Walter Benjamin (1939)
00:04:03 mp3 / Odd rhythm of reading, mispronounced Latin / ISBN 080520802X
KEYWORDS: History, messiah, nihilism, messianic time, just plain difficult.

Imaginative excesses by Theodor Adorno (1964)
00:08:40 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISSN 0028 6060
KEYWORDS: Philosophy, plea, the need to work with and in extremes, intellectuals and workers, the time is passing, Minima Moralia.

Soul power by Andrew Kopkind (1967)
00:28:35 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, the 60’s, history of new left, Black power, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rap Brown, SNCC, Shakespeare, riots, Democrats all useless.

The birth of art by Maurice Blanchot (1971)
00:27:05 mp3 / Mangled French / ISBN 0804727597
KEYWORDS: Art, history of art, caves, Lascaux, Georges Bataille, art as wonder, body as signature, myth of origins, fear of death, exigency of life.

Caliban's Masque: a history of wild men in Colonial America by Peter Lamborn Wilson (1995)
00:49:54 mp3 / Mispronounced English / ISBN 0936756926
KEYWORDS: History, Colonial American cults and drop out culture, Roanoke, Ann Hutchinson, masons, Puritans those bastards, Cromwell, Indians, tri-racial groups, Quakers, Leveler, Diggers, Rhode Island, Maypole.

Reversible destinies questionnaire by Arakawa and Gins (1997)
01:14:56 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 0810969025
KEYWORDS: Art, architecture, buildings as surround, we have decided not to die, against mortality, death as option, poetry of living life beyond life itself, are you radical enough?