When Pressed Issue 1: The Twentieth Century Never Happened When pressed to say something, when pressed to utterance, we have the responsibility of response. Sometimes...
Guide to Jandek Seth Tisue Officially, Jandek is not a person. Albums and live performances are credited to “Jandek”, but the man on the album covers and on stage is...
The Individual in a New Environmental Age Because I was Invited For better or worse, we have already altered our ecosystems very...
Yesterday morning I was dragged from my desk for a very pleasant walk through Sydney Park — some welcome sunshine on the winter solstice. I spotted a tradesman’s...
Most people who visited the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout during the 1950s and 1960s would remember, with...
Feeling A Little Lost Lately? The map shows the percentage of lost in each region. The black-colored regions are areas of the world where there are few if any...
M.C. Escher (June 17, 1898 - March 27 1972) Puddle (Woodcut 1952) “Wherever he names the time (la bonne heure) in La Vita Nuova, Dante finds...
The previously unknown species, the Yariguies brush finch, Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum has striking black, yellow and red plumage. (Blanca Huertas...
Look Up And Marvel! Upton, Lincolnshire, UK – A huge, pink pig, with legs to spare. (© Ian Loxley) At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love...
A Radical Tonic Lionel Fogarty — Minyung Woolah Binnung: What Saying Says Samuel Wagan Watson —Smoke Encrypted Whispers These...
When Pressed
Issue 1: The Twentieth Century Never Happened
When pressed to say something, when pressed to utterance, we have the responsibility of response. Sometimes the most responsible thing to say is nothing at all, which is not nothing, since it is (often) a (profound) response. Saying something more than nothing entails a risk, it risks [...]
A Radical Tonic
Lionel Fogarty — Minyung Woolah Binnung: What Saying Says
Samuel Wagan Watson —Smoke Encrypted Whispers
These two exceptional books should be sent to every household in Australia, plastic wrapped and free of charge. They would be the perfect curative after next week’s federal election. The campaigns of the conventional parties demonstrate how far Indigenous [...]
Guide to Jandek
Seth Tisue
Officially, Jandek is not a person.
Albums and live performances are credited to “Jandek”, but the man on the album covers and on stage is “a representative from Corwood Industries”. Corwood is the record label; “Jandek” is the musical project. Both are directed by the same individual. The trinity of Jandek, Corwood, and [...]
The Individual in a New Environmental Age
Because I was Invited
For better or worse, we have already altered our ecosystems very drastically, and we do find ourselves in a managerial position where major research and major managerial decisions have to be made. What we have to do, then, is to find ways of revising ourselves so [...]
Most people who visited the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout during the 1950s and 1960s would remember, with affection, the world famous White Cats. This family of friendly felines lived in a ‘cattage’ on the roof of the Pylon Lookout, (14 steps up a ladder from the Parapet Level). Here they had their own merry-go-round, [...]
When Pressed
Issue 1: The Twentieth Century Never Happened
When pressed to say something, when pressed to utterance, we have the responsibility of response. Sometimes the most responsible thing to say is nothing at all, which is not nothing, since it is (often) a (profound) response. Saying something more than nothing entails a risk, it risks saying “we”. That pronoun risks exceeding itself improperly, irresponsibly, but the risk itself is, nevertheless, and also neverthemore, completely necessary. “We” always risks itself, “we” are always a risk, an impossibility that must risk its possibility…
…After a tragically predictable six months of namelessness ended, Pat and Nick quickly knocked up the ‘puzzle piece’ When Pressed icon by taking out the shape formed from the space between the E and the S in PRESSED and turning it on its side. This shape seemed to work as a talisman for the approach this collection has since taken. We all wordlessly agreed to allow design and language to talk to each other, an approach that was only natural given our different backgrounds and interests. I think: turning scribbled words into the cool invincibility of pixels, like walking with your mouth open…
…Jason Nelson is one of the most adept artists at bringing language poetry and cultural geography, always playfully, into the digital context, and his collaboration here with Christine Hume continues to ply its wonderful messiness in an age of inviolable pixels. Dan Disney’s three poems function like meditative documentaries on three northern cities and the experience of travel, while Keri Glastonbury’s short sharp lines return to your mind like lines in an askew pop gem. Prague-based poet and artist Louis Armand has three pieces in this issue, including the exquisite long poem Circus Days. In Derek Motion’s essay, he looks openly at his own writing and the inventive processes that keep it awake and moving; while Tom Lee’s series of poems create hypnogogic spaces within the domestic. Michael Farrell’s poems continue an interest in exploring and remixing and thinking again about colonialist poetry. Patrick Jones work says: Stand on a city street at an odd angle, and this – of course, why not? - is poetry.
When Pressed is edited/curated by Nick Keys and Tim Wright
Guide to Jandek
Seth Tisue
Officially, Jandek is not a person.
Albums and live performances are credited to “Jandek”, but the man on the album covers and on stage is “a representative from Corwood Industries”. Corwood is the record label; “Jandek” is the musical project. Both are directed by the same individual. The trinity of Jandek, Corwood, and [...]
The Individual in a New Environmental Age
Because I was Invited
For better or worse, we have already altered our ecosystems very drastically, and we do find ourselves in a managerial position where major research and major managerial decisions have to be made. What we have to do, then, is to find ways of revising ourselves so [...]
Yesterday morning I was dragged from my desk for a very pleasant walk through Sydney Park — some welcome sunshine on the winter solstice.
I spotted a tradesman’s ute parked rakishly by the way, notable at first for its tidiness, and then for the stencils on the duco announcing the ‘eco-friendly’ removal of pests. Signs of [...]
Most people who visited the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout during the 1950s and 1960s would remember, with affection, the world famous White Cats. This family of friendly felines lived in a ‘cattage’ on the roof of the Pylon Lookout, (14 steps up a ladder from the Parapet Level). Here they had their own merry-go-round, [...]
Feeling A Little Lost Lately?
The map shows the percentage of lost in each region. The black-colored regions are areas of the world where there are few if any believers in Christ.The white regions show a high percentage of people who profess Christianity. The United States represents one of the few areas of the world where [...]
M.C. Escher (June 17, 1898 - March 27 1972)
Puddle (Woodcut 1952)
“Wherever he names the time (la bonne heure) in La Vita Nuova, Dante finds it in terms of the number nine: “Nine times already since my birth had the heaven of light returned,” “so that almost from the beginning of her ninth year she appeared [...]
The previously unknown species, the Yariguies brush finch, Atlapetes latinuchus yariguierum has striking black, yellow and red plumage. (Blanca Huertas - AP)
“9th October, 2006, Lauren Drake, AP, BOGOTA, Colombia –
A colorful new bird has been discovered in a previously unexplored Andean cloud forest, spurring efforts to protect the area, conservation groups said Monday (…)
The bright [...]
Look Up And Marvel!
Upton, Lincolnshire, UK – A huge, pink pig, with legs to spare. (© Ian Loxley)
At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them. Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’. If [...]
A Radical Tonic
Lionel Fogarty — Minyung Woolah Binnung: What Saying Says
Samuel Wagan Watson —Smoke Encrypted Whispers
These two exceptional books should be sent to every household in Australia, plastic wrapped and free of charge. They would be the perfect curative after next week’s federal election. The campaigns of the conventional parties demonstrate how far Indigenous [...]
Kenneth Adolf Slessor (27th March 1901—30th June 1971)
“Perhaps it was all a mistake, a terrible act of misreading. Rather than a serious deconstruction of the author concept, perhaps Barthes’s essay “The Death of the Author” was ironic, a close relative of Pop Art. After all, while “The Death of the Author” achieved its widest circulation [...]
