FIFTH ESTATE
Fall 2008, Vol. 43 #3 #379
Issue Theme: PLAY

* “Party Like It’s 1929!” [editorial]
* “The Disasters of Disaster Capitalism” – Don LaCoss
* “Nest Defense: For Marie Mason”
* “Absolutely Marie Suite” (poem) – William R. Boyer
* “The Green Scare Goes On”
* “Police State Emerges Further at Republican Convention: Organizers Face ‘Terrorism’ Charges”
* “Long Haul Infoshop Regroups After Police Raid” – Jesse D. Palmer
* “Notes on Play” – Peter Lamborn Wilson
* “Paradise How? The Living Theatre’s Erotic Revolution of Poetry, Pleasure, & Play” – Anu Bonobo
* “ ‘The Universe Wants to Play’: Pleasures and Perils in the Ludic 90s” – John Brinker
* “Idiot Like Me: The Dialectic of Pie in the Face” – Tanya Solomon
* “A Communique from the Krewe of Eris”
* “Rack of Enchantments: The Not-So-Secret of Mardi Gras” – Lord Willin
* “Remembering Vi Landry” – Janet
* “Free Feasts, Erotic Play, and the Eruption of the Marvelous: Looking Back on the Gardeners Against the Work Ethic Association” – a dialogue between Unruh Lee and M.K. Shibek
* “Festival Theatre for the Artist/Activist” – Cerulean
* “Hellcat Passion” – London International Festival of Surrealism
* “Resisting the Consumerist’s Urge” – X. Buyer
* ‘Battle in Seattle’: Can a Hollywood Fictional Account of the 1999 Anti-WTO Demos Do Justice to their Radical Content?” – Marie Mason
REVIEWS:
‘Oystercatcher’ #5 (review by J.L. Dale)
‘A Game of War’- Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (review by Don LaCoss)
‘In Defense of Lost Causes’ – Slavoj Zizek (review by John Brinker)
‘Vindicating Classical Anarchism: ‘Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917’ – Terence Kissack (review by Spencer Sunshine)
untitled poem - Joker
LETTERS: On counterfeiting money; the IWW; African Anarchism; and Cuba and queer people.