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Cultural Writing. George Dennison's notes on the famous Bread and Puppet Theater never became the book he planned. He died in 1987, his notes still unorganized. Geoffrey Gardner and Taylor Stoehr have now edited those notes, and they prove a fascinating glimpse into genesis, history, and politics of Peter Schumann's gang of performers, a group simultaneously influenced by and comparable to classical European theater, German Expressionism, folk art of many cultures, and medieval pagent plays.
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Dense, rigorous essays concerned not with the secret intentions lurking behind information transmission, but on the parallel worlds created through these transmissions. Media see the world as raw material for their own project, and as they are forced to constant development, the media text can never produce a final understanding. In these essays, ADILKNO looks for models of thought and magic words that will help the media text spell itself out to the point of exhaustion.
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'Editors Geoffrey Gardner and Taylor Stoehr present the late author\'s intimate reflections on Vermont\'s Bread and Puppet Theater, arguably the most important politically-inspired American performance artists of our time. Profusely illustrated.'
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This "spiritual archeology" of pot history, science, folklore, cuisine, and belles lettres assembles the archive of the Western encounter with the "altered" indigenous Other, from North Africa to India and elsewhere. Includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of marijuana literature ever assembled for the general reader.