essay by Brian Charles Clark
I. Liquid Manifesto
Like a sacrificial virgin balanced on a ziggurat in an earthquake, Jean Genet step-dances in fits and trances, and in his resolute Fall disavows the validity of received notions of ontological and epistemological positioning. Genet’s narrators are Schroedinger’s cats: undecidably both dead and alive. Genet’s narrators are also liquid. These narrators, as for example Jean in Funeral Rites, rise to the level of their surroundings in a dialogical environmentalism (in the sense that the mental is enturned: en-vir–always already turning again) that has them “communicating” (in the sense that a dance is a communion) with “the other” (a prescriptive term about to be overturned) outside of the space-time continuum of Newtonian physics and Cartesian ontology, but still within the purview of persistent and visionary rhythms. Read the rest of this entry »
review by Brian Charles Clark of Hoagland, Edward (1999): 
[Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, New York], for the imaginary magazine Cybersmurf, a free, locally distributed newspaper [not] available in San Francisco, Calif. and Moscow, Idaho
