A.D. Reader – Part 1
A.D. Reader – Part I
111 x 180mm, 124 pages, Riso Printed 1C on GR3770 + Color Laser
Perfect Binding, Gatefold Cover
Printed & Published by Now-Time
A.D. = Simultaneously historical roots, and magmatic potential.
A.D. = those intrinsic, never finished, dynamically unfolding forces at work on every level ... "lest it entrench itself in rigidity"
Some call it 🄰pollonian & Ⓓionysian.. others Eros & Thanatos, Order & Entropy, Object & Subject, 🄰ngel…Ⓓevil…, elsewhere Form & Content, Stem & Flower…Freedom & Necessity.
Part 1: 24 unique and far-flung voices from the past make up an imaginary conference approaching practical means for bridging these age old gaps and overcoming the isolated and exaggerated formations of fixed duality through creative intervention. As insights that remain valid today, the past becomes a conscious part of the present, a living memory to help us make leaps towards the not-yet.
As the motor of transformation, stereo-conceptions overcome what has been severed, (humanity & nature, reality & imagination, past & present, materialism & spiritualism, quality & quantity, determinism & chance, status quo & change). Putting each (false) side into oscillation, they cease to be antinomies through practice.
A.D. says duality is in fact naiveté. Absolving abstract dualisms for a comprehensive viewpoint.
Selections from: Kohei Sugiura, Paul Valéry, Sigmund Freud, Kenneth Burke, Vilém Flusser, Pier Paolo Pasolini, M.C. Richards, Ada Lousie Huxtable, Asger Jorn, Akira Asada, Herbert Marcuse, Méret Oppenheim, Marshall McLuhan, Gunther Schuller, Rudolf Arnheim, Julia Kristeva, Grace Lee Boggs, Ernst Fischer, Tomás Maldonado, Geoffroy Tory, Harold Innis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin
"Texts that shall survive their time" - for use by new generations that still wrestle with the same fundamental struggles.
A.D. is an approach and a joining together. A prerequisite for cooperative relations. The moral of the story and the meaning of life. When faced with a choice, do both (without compromise).
Ships with 22.75" x 34" Poster
