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ben ehrenreich blog blog about contact books events stories ben ehrenreich blog about contact books events stories top blog about contact books events stories thursday oct 04 2018 thanks for dropping by b i haven t been maintaining this website with any regularity for several years now but feel free to look around click the contact tab if you d like to get in touch post a comment share article sunday jun 04 2017 juan goytisolo 1931 2017 b juan goytisolo died this morning he was 86 and had been ill for some time it s hard to begrudge him his rest but i am sad nonetheless one doesn t get too many literary heroes per lifetime goytisolo wouldn t have liked the word pure to be applied to his work in any sense but i can t think of a purer anti authoritarianism than his he had a keen nose for the violence concealed by every form of domination linguistic and narrative as well as the more obvious types his novels dug away at their own foundations even and especially at his own authority over them the idea was not to weave a careful and oh so pretty semiotic web that leads you if you re clever to some determined point of emotional impact edification but to set you free to tear it all down and to stand beside him in the intimate layered screaming silence that remains i interviewed him once over the phone from marrakesh if there is no clear author then there is no authority he told me and you give the freedom to the reader for me that was the most important thing that the reader decide for himself what was the reality his antinomianism his antagonism to the policing of borders of all sorts to policing of all sorts his embrace of polyphony heresy promiscuity queerness and the endless fertility of doubt was not an abstract avant gardist stance it formed a concrete politics of exile the one by which he lived in his memoirs he wrote of an irreversible hatred for the monuments and symbols of an ever cynical cruel history for those severe threatening official districts whose false grandeur and solemnity hide the original sin of their construction at the expense of humiliations sufferings and blood and of a corresponding attraction towards those areas where life is spontaneous dark dense and proliferating in which the creative act can take root as much as anyone maybe more than anyone he taught me where the writer belongs outside always outside far from the lights and fences in the fecund swirling darkness where it is possible to see it s worth adding that goytisolo understood decades ago that the urge to cleanse europe of its muslim past and present to wall off some purified fictionalized west from the possibility of external contamination is self annihilating as well as genocidal we would fight his narrator enthused in state of siege against the enemy and his doctrine of borders traced in blood with the eternal and subtle weapon of the weak the seminal dispersion of their voices the infinite variants of the word let s take him up on that post a comment share article wednesday feb 15 2017 love apart b let s rest in the sunshine for a while maybe tonight they ll lock us up in the cellar of the security building keep that in mind and you ll savour this sunshine all the more i m teaching you wisdom one day you ll lie down on a cot in a disheartening darkness then remember the sunshine of this moment the greatest joy on earth love apart is sunshine in your veins and thought asked rodion thought ah right now it s something of a midnight sun piercing the skull glacial what s to be done if it s midnight in the century midnight s where we have to live then said rodion with an odd elation victor serge midnight in the century post a comment share article thursday jan 19 2017 24 sublimations a poem by sesshu foster fightandwrite b sesshu s website is suffering indigestion and tomorrow is kind of a big day what with the four horsemen riding in so i m posting this for him 24 sublimations i am writing this postcard instead of that letter of recommendation for some student i am taking this action instead of sitting around thinking or vice versa i am writing a letter of protest or sending a check to an organization instead of calling people and organizing a meeting instead of setting an agenda i am fuming about my political isolation and mulling over theories of resistance instead of doing something about it or sometimes i am dreaming about my political isolation i am talking to old friends instead of hanging out with someone new it s like cooking with old recipes instead of learning new ones i am going on a walk instead of feeling lame and sad about somebody dead though sometimes i talk to them i am going to clean up this mess or wash the dishes instead of impulsively do something else as i think about whatever i tried to encourage the photographer as we rode by talking about alcoholism in the back of the boat with the wake spraying outward catching the light but instead it made her cry we didn t talk again sometimes we are acting to avoid thinking and sometimes vice versa sometimes anything i do such as read the newspaper or drive to the store is so that i won t start writing if i don t write the next thing there s no commitment i won t think about the animals dying i ll just cook it up i ll try to make it taste good instead of mulling over the dead people i ll concern myself with people distant from me i ll wonder if my face isn t programmed and fixed and instead try to feel new feelings instead of thinking about a dream i ll go upstairs and make coffee instead of getting right to work i ll sit around drinking coffee instead of dressing with intentions mindfulness i ll just throw on what i wore yesterday who cares instead of silence i ll put on music that i barely listen to instead of brushing off someone who comes up and makes random conversation i ll try to find interesting questions new living writers instead of famous old dead writers some new kid instead of old friends or family some point of departure instead of an old entrance into the familiar something local phenomenon that might be overlooked instead of larger commonly recognized figures of the general terrain something in passing instead of the same old fixed idea sometimes look at birds instead of sit inside reading or looking at a screen post a comment share article tuesday jan 03 2017 rip john berger b from hold everything dear dispatches on survival and resistance verso books 2008 to engage today with the traditional vocabulary as employed by the powerful and their media only adds to the surrounding murkiness and devastation this does not necessarily mean silence it means choosing the voices one wishes to join the present period of history is one of the wall when the berlin one fell the prepared plans to build walls everywhere were unrolled concrete bureaucratic surveillance security racist walls everywhere the walls separate the desperate poor from those who hope against hope to stay relatively rich the walls cross every sphere from crop cultivation to health care they exist too in the richest metropolises of the world the wall is the front line of what long ago was called the class war on the one side every armament conceivable the dream of no body bag wars the media plenty hygiene many passwords to glamour on the other stones short supplies feuds the violence of revenge rampant illness an acceptance of death and an ongoing preoccupation with surviving one more night or perhaps one more week together the choice of meaning in the world today is here between the two sides of the wall the wall is also inside each one of us whatever our circumstances we can choose within ourselves which side of the wall we are attuned to post a comment share article page 1 2 3 4 5 47 next 5 entries 2020 ben ehrenreich