Anarchy

Anarchy

by Cage, John

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""That government governs best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Gol…

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  • Full title :Anarchy / John Cage.

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""That government governs best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available for the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2001.
  • Edition:1st Wesleyan ed

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 81 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780819570574, 0819570575
  • oclc:ocn680621835
  • LC Classification:PS3505.A2533
  • Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

American literature American poetry Littérature américaine Poésie américaine POETRY -- American

Writers

Cage, John

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