Tag Archives: Critical Theory

Great Zines? Bad Zines? In Praise of the Zine-Trading Economy – by Olchar E. Lindsann

From the Pamphlet: No, all zines are not equal – just as no two individuals are equal. Yet in a healthy micropress culture, “good” & “bad” publications are thus definitively and structurally relativized; such judgements remain personal, or explicitly bound to affinity (including an affinity for well-crafted zines … Continue reading

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We [Trade/Gift/Copy] Banned Books: An Underground Publisher’s Thoughts on the Banned Books Industry – by Olchar E. Lindsann

From the Pamphlet: It is not, in the U.S., Europe, and their global empires, the supposed agents of Democracy who are in charge of banning books; it is the agents of Capitalism. And indeed most of those who vocally oppose … Continue reading

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Toward the Community of Activated Obsessions – by Olchar E. Lindsann

From the text: “Our friendships, collaborations, and conversations should not be founded on our similarities, while our divergences, our individual obsessions and eccentricities are mere garnishes; rather, we should take find our greatest joy and inspiration from playing with those … Continue reading

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Jim Leftwich – The Blue Seam

An alchemical text not only in its matter but in its process and effects – an experimental tincture of hermeticism, lettristic and visual and asemic poetry, relics, theory, quotation, correspondence/s, trashpo, & history in putrefaction, by one of the most … Continue reading

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Olchar E. Lindsann TLP 5-Pack

5 Tacky Little Pamphlets by mOnocle-Lash editor Olchar E. Lindsann for $1.25: The Camilong Gnarbite, & Other Strapulent Uritations (Dec. 2019): Little poems generated from pwpermds by Geof Huth & mIEKAL aND in Textistence (2008, Xerox Sutra Editions) Flaming Mess: … Continue reading

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NOBODY GO ANYWHERE: STAY HOME MAKE ART –– by the SPART Action Group & New Jersey Post-Neo

Polemic pamphlet of two complimentary manifestos by SPART (Northern Ireland) and the NJ Post-Neo contingent as part of the Nobody Go Anywhere campaign; distributed produced simultaneously by SPART in Northern Ireland. Technology may be getting faster but human nature is as … Continue reading

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Useless Preface to a Romantasemic Writing –– by Jim Leftwich, Théophile Gautier, & Olchar E. Lindsann

A mash-up by Olchar Lindsann of two manifestos protesting the hegemony of the idea of Utility, written a century and a half apart: Théophile Gautier’s 1835 Preface to Mlle. de Maupin, and Jim Leftwich’s 2001 Useless Writing manifesto. ” useful … Continue reading

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Cheating Art History: Strategies in the Fight Against Modernism –– by Olchar E. Lindsann

Polemic tract outlining the necessity for a self-aware and structural resistance on the part of ethically motivated communities to the dominant ‘artistic’ commercial AND discursive/theoretical infrastructures. First published with minor variations in Synapse 1. 10 pgs on folded 8.5”x11”. A.Da. 91. (2007 Anti-Vulgar)$0.75 + … Continue reading

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Toward a Breathing Text: The Art of Madness –– by Olchar E. Lindsann

Early Polemic tract of Lindsann’s. “WHAT LITERARY, PLASTIC, OR MUSICAL FORM IS AS RIPE FOR CREATIVE, WILLFUL, MANIPULATION AS THE HUMAN MIND? . . . WE MUST WRITE OUR OWN MINDS LIKE WE WRITE POEMS. . . LET THE CREATIVE … Continue reading

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Dartington, A Eulogy: An Open Letter on Community, Pedagogy, History, and the Life and Death of Utopian Institutions –– by Olchar E. Lindsann

Part of the utopian community founded in Totnes, England in 1926, Dartington College of Arts was for many decades a defining force in the development and sustenance of ethically and communally based creative activity, experimental pedagogy, contextual and site-specific work, … Continue reading

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