thecall is a poetry book that is organized by lessons. a dedication by spook to the great Dr. Maya Angelou and the first book in the second half of Ascension, this collection chronicles self love and Universal knowledge.

Manifesto for a Theory of the 'New Aesthetic' - An irreverent guided tour of the 'New Aesthetic' by Curt Cloninger, The Missing Factory - John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film and culture more generally, Barbara Says - Industry Does it Faster - Roman Vasseur reviews the Artist Placement Group's historic brokerage of bureaucracy and art, The Ghosts of Participation Past - Josephine Berry Slater reviews Claire Bishop's recent book, Artificial Hells, Listener As Operator 3 - Howard Slater finds in jazz a response to the experience of slavery which preserves and propels a collective being, Untitled #M001 - #M011 2,325,600 combinations of 16 grays an artist's project by John Houck, Gaming the Plumbing - Alberto Toscano inspects the gap between financial fantasies and the muddy realities of the 'robot phase transition', Destructive Destruction? - How is high frequency trading's drive to efficiency affecting market dynamics as a whole? Ask Inigo Wilkinson and Bogan Dragos, Fellowship of the Wrong - A code-splitting tale of lightspeed trading run by Benedict Seymour, with illustrations by Rona Tunnadine, The Guest - A short story by Mira Mattar exploring the annihilating power of luxury, The Garden of Earthly Delights - Matthew Fuller wades through the Olympic muck to visit The Crystal World, At the Limit: Self-Organisation in Greece - Anna O'Lory of Blaumachen identifies some limits to current struggles in Greece, Whose Rebel City? - Neil Gray discusses David Harvey's Rebel Cities from the perspective of the autonomous urban struggles of '70s Italy

The End of the Beginning This story starts off where many end. As I sit in front of my computer, the thoughts of many things bounce around my skull like a silver metallic ball in an old pinball machine. I need to pay my back rent. I have to prepare for a defamation trial in small claims court. I have no food in the fridge. I'm over $20,000 dollars in the hole. My company needs a new website. I haven't released a new record in months. I have one solitary quarter to my name. Literally. I need my Clonazepam. Obstacles such as these have broken many men, but I will not fall victim to the same fate. You can attribute this proclamation to my unwavering confidence, blind faith or the egotistical nature of a champion. Nevertheless, the future will be a testament to these words. I will not fail.

Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and journalistic portraiture to deeply engaged cultural critique. Corbett advocates for the relevance of "little" music, which despite its smaller audience is of enormous cultural significance. He writes on musicians as varied as Sun Ra, PJ Harvey, Koko Taylor, Steve Lacy, and Helmut Lachenmann. Among other topics, he discusses recording formats; the relationship between music and visual art, dance, and poetry; and, with Terri Kapsalis, the role of female orgasm sounds in contemporary popular music. Above all, Corbett privileges the importance of improvisation; he insists on the need to pay close attention to "other" music and celebrates its ability to open up pathways to new ideas, fresh modes of expression, and unforeseen ways of knowing.

This book is a collection of fish and other animals in boxes with a self-explanatory saying in the art image.These paintings were painted at the boardwalk on Venice Beach, California from 2007 to present.Philosophical, political. cultural, scientific, humorous comments on present day society.

frames per second / frames made from video fly-overs of large drawings / sequences of repetitions with incremental changes, edited / musical structures / sound patterns / stutter poems / comics

FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon. Topics include: digital art licensing, copying and distributing under open content models, the influence of FLOSS on digital art practices, the use of free software to produce art and the art of producing free software, FLOSS as an embedded political message in digital art, paradoxes and limitations of open licenses for digital art, FLOSS as a way to quote and embed other artworks in the making of new works, definitions and manifestos for a free software art... With contributions from: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley, Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuez, Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos, Simon Yuill. Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk.

Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes' close analysis of network systems demonstrates how organising within contemporary social and political movements exists somewhere between - or beyond - the two. Rather than the party or chaos, the one or the multitude, he discovers a 'bestiary' of hybrid organisational forms and practices that render such disjunctives false. The resulting picture shows how social and technical networks can and do facilitate strategic action and fluid distributions of power at the same time. It is by developing the strategic potentials that are already immanent to networks, he argues, that contemporary solutions to the question of organisation can be developed. Part of the PML Books series. A collaboration between Mute and the Post-Media Lab. http: //metamute.org/