Synopses & Reviews
Cultural Writing. This collection of fiction, poetry and essays from the new Clear Cut Press, compiles the work of writers Clear Cut Press has or plans to publish, providing a map of their direction and vision for the future. The book is "portable and durable. If you leave the area it will still be useful. There are many other places like this one. The book might help you recognize them. The future has preoccupations and it has trajectories. The book maps these conditions... Some possibilities will blossom as others collapse. The language of the future is more beautiful than we know"--from the inside flap.
Synopsis
This anthology maps the territory of interest to Clear Cut Press, more or less. It includes fiction, memoir, poetry, polemical essays, lyrical research, archival texts, photography, painting, and other arts. Among the contributors are Stacey Levine, Charles D'Ambrosio, Steve Weiner, Emily White, Rebecca Brown, Robert Glück, Pravin Jain (a former Enron executive), Casey Sanchez (a fish slimer), Wouter Vanstiphout (winner of the 2002 Masskant Prize for young architects), photographers Robert Adams and Ari Marcopoulus, painter Mike Brophy, many widely published authors, and others whom you'll know well in the future. Matt Briggs provides a specially commissioned index.
Synopsis
This book is a tool for the future, which is here. You can use it. It has words, pictures, and other information. The book is portable and durable. If you leave the area it will still be useful. There are many other places like this one. The book might help you recognize them. The future has preoccupations and it has trajectories. The book maps these conditions. Men and women, as we know them, will no longer be the same. Your job may become strange. Some possibilities will blossom as others collapse. The language of the future is more beautiful than we know.
Table of Contents
The World of Barry Stacey Levine 10
Hermosa Beach Wesley Wehr 18
The Runaway Emily White 48
The Artifact Frances McCue 64
Clear Cuts Robert Adams 70
A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophystic Region: Rubus Armeniacus The Office for Soft Architecture 82
with this field-dew dream and consecrate Howard W. Robertson 90
Conviction Robert Gluck 104
Seattle Police Officer (video still) 118
Capitalism Inside an Organization Pravin J. Jain 120
The Sweet Gift Patrick Bissell 170
The Adjunct Corrina Wycoff 210
Chameleon Dreams Nhien Nguyen 240
As Bad as It Comes, As Good as It Gets: Canning Salmon in Alaska Casey Sanchez 254
The Theoretical Practice of Affirmation or Whatever Diana George and Nic Veroli 284
Professional Snowboarders Ari Marcopoulos 296
Dwelling and Richness: Town Building After the Planners Have Gone Gerard Hadders (introduction by Wouter Vanstiphout) 308
How to Colour The Office for Soft Architecture 320
ACT #44. Reflective Arrow, Highway #5, Seattle to Vancouver Section, going North to Vancouver B.C. Canada. 1968. N. E. Thing, Co. 332
The Chinook Jargon Michael Brophy 334
Looters of the Public Domain S. A. D. Puter 344
Finnish for Pearl Rebecca Brown 366
Degrees of Guilt Charles D'Ambrosio 386
Pacific Bell Grant Cogswell 422
Slaughterhouse in the Desert Steve Weiner 448
Versions Sam Lohmann 466
They'll Make Great Bait Tiffany Lee Brown 472
That's Verboten, Kitten Jordana Rosenberg 482
Doubt and the History of Scaffolding The Office for Soft Architecture 500
Index by Matt Briggs 508
Acknowledgments 520
Contributors' Biographies 523