It seems that the more art school training one receives at the academy, the more one is likely to be confused about surrealism or overtly hostile to it. Much of the malaise around surrealism in art circles stems from the …
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Surrealism is (Still) Elsewhere
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 392, Fall/Winter 2014 - Art & Anarchy
Rocks in my Pillow
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 377, March 2008
a review of Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, by Allan Antliff, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007
Hellcat Passion
by Ron Sakolsky, Various Authors
Fifth Estate # 379, Fall, 2008
Game (1) “Shelf Life” How to Play: You take a series of books off your shelf in the order they sit there. Working through them in sequence, you open them at random, selecting the phrase or clause that strikes you, …
“Y” Is A Crooked Letter
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
What kind of anarch am I on my best days? The kind that eludes the prisons of “ists” and “isms” for the freedom of the “Y”.
Tuning in to the illegalist continuum
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
Bank robbers The Bonnot Gang were notorious anarchist bank robbers whose daring exploits in pre World War One France were legendary examples of illegalism. In contrast to the stalwart proletarian solidarity prized by the anarcho-syndicalists of that time, the illegalists …
As The Shit Hits The Fan
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 381, Summer-Fall 2009
The State is understood as pure and inviolable, as capable of purifying the most repulsive things–even money–through the touch of its divine hand. Money, therefore, is pure insofar as it belongs to the State; so are, by association, those experts …
Black Star North
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 368-369, Spring-Summer, 2005
“A single star weds the space between two branches.” — George Elliott Clarke in Québécité Lately, I have chosen to do my living, loving, writing, and resisting in British Columbia (BC) Canada. Though I can’t say that I’m an ex-patriot, …
Music review: d’bi young
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
a review of d’bi young. Wombanifesto. www.dbiyoung.net
How Art and Music Can Change the World
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
a review of How Art and Music Can Change the World: Mecca Normal
On Don LaCoss’s Passing
by Ron Sakolsky
Fifth Estate # 384, Spring, 2011
One of Don’s last research projects was on the history of Egyptian surrealism, so it is fitting that his death was poetically heralded by a popular insurrection in the streets of Cairo.