MANIFESTOS, EXEGESES, & MISSIVES


MASTER'S THESIS: AN INTRICATE ENSEMBLE: THE ART-SCIENCE OF AN ECOLOGICAL IMAGINARY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH

Practices and frameworks that emphasize and enhance collaboration, spontaneity, and care, in defying convention, contain the potential to subvert it. December 2019


OBVIOUSBLOG

Expoundings on projects, events, etc. Archive: 2005-2023


MARCH FOR (NOT JUST ANY) SCIENCE
A call for science that prioritizes the humane and just. April 9, 2018


RETURN TO SOURCE: CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS DISCUSS THE SOCIOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEIR WORK
In 1969, SOURCE: Music of the Avant Garde magazine invited twenty composers to answer a single question: "Have you, or has anyone, every used your music for political or social ends?" I posed the same question to twenty composers working today for the 2015 Politics of Sound Art issue of Leonardo Music Journal.


INTRODUCTION TO RHYTHMANALYSIS: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF ACOUSTIC ATMOSPHERE
How sound shapes the experience of living. “Everywhere there is interaction between a place, a time, and an expenditure of energy there is rhythm”. [The rhythmanalyst] is capable of listening to a house, a street, a town as one listens to a symphony…” – Henri Lefebvre. Revista de Arte Sonoro y Cultura AURAL: Geografías Audibles, July 2015 (also at Academia.edu)

THE ART OF ONTOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
A treatise on my work as it relates to Karen Barad's notions of multispecies intra-activity. Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, #32 Summer 2015


THE POST-ANTHROPO-SCENE: RECLAIM THE HUMANE, ADDENDUM TO THE MANIFESTO FOR THE OBVIOUS INTERNATIONAL
A call for post-humanism. Truth-out.org, December 26, 2014


LIBERTY, EQUALITY, GEOGRAPHY: AN INTERVIEW WITH WITH JOHN P. CLARK ON THE REVOLUTIONARY ECO-ANARCHISM OF ELISÉE RECLUS
"L’homme est la nature prenant conscience d’elle-même." - Elisée Reclus
Truth-out.org, March 4, 2014

PHILOSOPROPS: A UNIFIED FIELD GUIDE
100-page book with 50 illustrations, released November 2013 in an edition of 250.

THE IMPOSSIBLE COMMUNITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN P. CLARK
ON GRASSROOTS REVOLUTION

"We need to stop demanding the impossible and simply do what is impossible." - John P. Clark. Truth-out.org, June 9, 2013

MANIFESTO FOR THE OBVIOUS INTERNATIONAL
Shifts in society reflect shifts in the social imaginary. Truth-out.org, June 3, 2013


THE STRUCTURE OF A PHILOSOPHICAL REVOLUTION
Are we in the midst of a radical paradigm shift away from the humancentric model of the biosphere? Truth-out.org, October 24, 2012


WHAT DOES COLLECTIVE DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE? IT'S UP TO US.
Is "an harmonious world community" possible? How can we begin to create it?
Truth-out.org, August 14, 2012


THE MULTIFOLD RESISTANCE: AN INVITATION
(or "HOW TO BREAK UP WITH BIG OIL: A "COMPLEX" RELATIONSHIP")

A constructive critique of Bill McKibben's "Climate Change's Terrifying New Math", part 2. Truth-out.org, August 1, 2012


WE HAVE MET THE ENVIRONMENT, AND IT IS US
A constructive critique of Bill McKibben's "Climate Change's Terrifying New Math", part 1. Truth-out.org July 23, 2012


THE COVERT POWER OF CREATIVITY
The subversive force of cooperation, exchange, and conceptual art.
thesustainabilityreview.org, April 19, 2012


THE VISIBLE, THE INVISIBLE, THE INDIVISIBLE
To alter the course of culture, first we must shift prevailing thought.
synergeticomnisolution.com, April 4, 2012 also published in CSPA (Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts) Journal #9, Dec 2012, Reprinted in the Archive Issue, 2023.


THE CAMPAIGN TO CELEBRATE PARADOX: INDEPENDENCE/INTERDEPENDENCE
Independence and interrdependence are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Synergetic Omni-Solution Blog, July 4, 2012


AFTER EXISTENTIAL CRISIS COMES OCCUPYING EVERYWHERE:
A REVOLUTION OF MEANING, REUNIFICATION, AND COLLABORATION

"We are all connected" is not a metaphor. Part of the Synergetic Omni-Solution Project. December 28, 2011

EVERYONE AS ACTIVIST: THE SYNERGETIC OMNI-SOLUTION
An overview of my application to the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge
suggesting that we all approach planet preservation in whatever ways are
most immediately accessible to us.
Wagingnonviolence.org, March 15, 2011


SPACESHIP EARTH: NAVIGATORS WANTED
In order to bring Spaceship Earth around, we're ALL going to need to
take a trick at the helm.
Truth-out.org, 2010


SOUNDWAVE "GREEN SOUND" FESTIVAL: SPECIAL MESSAGE
The difficult decision to forgo a live appearance and perform virtually instead.
July, 2010


INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN LAURIE AT DRAGONLINE
On Radionics in my work, April 2010


EMBRACE THE PARADOX: THE ART, WORDS, & SOUNDS OF ALYCE SANTORO
An interview at The Worst Horse, Buddhist Sub- & Pop-Culture Site, Jan 2006