Out of the Carnage of America First: Prosthetic Origins and Mythic Foundations

29th January 2018Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh, No Philosophr King Draft, UncategorizedAdam Pendleton, America First, American Carnage, Frederick Jackson Turner, Handbooks, Hito Steyerl, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Jonathas de Andrade, Juliana Huxtable, Kerry James Marshall, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Romare Bearden, Wallace Berman, William E. JonesMinus Plato

From January 2017 (“From this day forward, it’s only going to be America first, America first.”) to January 2018 (“America first, doesn’t mean America alone”), we have been suffering Trump’s monotonous solution meant to pivot from what he dubbed ‘this American carnage’ (aka anything prior to Trumptime). The doomsday phrase ‘American carnage’ sent journalists scurrying […]

Sowing Semina

12th January 2017Minus Plato Today, Semina Seminar, Wallace BermanSemina Seminar, Wallace BermanMinus Plato

Today is the first day of my Semina Seminar – a pedagogical experiment created after the model of Wallace Berman’s Semina (Latin for ‘seeds’), a hand-printed assemblage-zine that Berman made between 1955 and 1964. As Berman’s friend and collaborator, poet Michal McClure wrote about Semina, it is as much a form or genre than a single, […]