Anarchitecton by Jordi Colomer

This is one of the most grabbing artworks I have seen lately and the overall best example of conceptual protest art I have seen. I am talking about Jordi Colomer’s ‘Anarchitecton’ which is a serie of videos and pictures of people protesting with buildings as a protest sign:

That makes you think in these times of economic crisis: is capitalism actually a protest against itself?

Isn’t the only way to effectively protest capitalism becoming capitalism itself? The way things are build now there’s no way to escape the system, unless you manage to climb on top of it. The same is true about our so-called ‘democracy’: it has become the most intolerant political system ever invented, far more intolerant than any dictatorship has ever been. That is an interesting paradox.

View the whole work on Jordi Colomers website

Credit Crisis, market crash, black friday

…in other words the perfect day to invest in poetry. We at Loewak will soon open a special section of this site where you, stockholder or investor, can invest into one of the few clean and interesting markets left: the market of poetry. Expect impossible returns, expect a dead cat bouncing, if you waste your money anyway why not waste it on something with dignity? Poetry is the answer.

That’s exactly what I did today. I bought these poetry volumes:

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 – by Cseslaw Milosz

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987: Bilingual Edition

The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

Selected Poems of Sandor Csoori

A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre

Perched on Nothing’s Branch – The poetry of Josef Attila

That should get me through this winter. Granted, these are rather ’safe’ choices, but that’s what
we need in these times. Guaranteed investments. No surprises. World class poetry.

Fall of Lehman produces 400 billion $ insurance claims

Another day of reckoning on the markets, with drops of almost 10% in a single day. Nothing seems to help: the 700 billion dollars plan had little effect, the global lowering of interest rates had little effect, the IMF’s announcing it opens a special department had little effect. It’s not so strange if you think what lies ahead on the markets. The fall of Lehman Brothers alone might lead to 400 billion dollars of insurance claims, which will press heavily on the markets. If these claims will prove to be not payable then it will result not in a win-lose situation but a lose-lose: the claimant wont get any money and the insurance company gets broke.

Compared to the infamous 700 billion dollar rescue plan, which now looks rather meagre if anything, if a single company can produce such giant debt claims, what will happen if other big banks or investment companies start to fall? That’s probably what will happen and it will result in massive amounts of debt the 700 Billion dollars, which would already be used on bad mortgage assets and not on claims anyway, is not an answer to.

These are strange times. There’s the Iceland situation, where the government simply announced it wouldn’t pay back the savings of over 600.000 people in England and the Netherlands. Absurd, but let’s remember that Iceland probably sees itself as the victim here: they invested heavily in the US market and had to take huge losses they could’t afford. However, if things go on like this I wouldn’t be surprised to see the English fleet end up on Icelands shores one day, and maybe they even should. If these were my saving I’d be pretty pissed, I can tell you.

There is more about the 400 billion dollars lehman insurance claim on Robert Peston’s site

M.H.Benders – Dutch writer and Freelance Economist

US debt clock runs out of digits

The US government’s debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure.

The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the full amount.

The board was erected to highlight the $2.7 trillion level of debt in 1989.

The clock’s owners say two more zeros will be added, allowing the clock to record a quadrillion dollars of debt.

Source: BBC website

The Perpetual Crisis model of the Debt-based economy

There is lots of people out there who do not understand what this crisis is all about. They have no idea what fractal reserve banking is, why banks can make billions of profits and all of a sudden be bankrupt one year later. Well, fractal reserve banking means the bank is not obliged to keep your money when you bring it to them but they can spend it. This usually means they will lend it out to someone else against a higher interest rate than they give you, and the difference is their profit.

However, when stuff got deregulated banks could not just lend out your money to someone else, they could also start to gamble with it on the stock markets. This is where things went wrong. Banks bought giant amounts of mortgage-packages that were promised to be good and they turned out to be bad mortgages that do not return any profit, at least not yet. They’re problematic. So they have spend lots and lots of our money on bad investments. This means that
the profit figures they have flaunted last years, based partly on these investments, were fake. They made it look like they were growing and growing, just to be able to cash in more money at the stock counter.

So now they’ve got called on, they have a huge cash flow problem. These bad debts are made of your money, and when too many people start asking their money back: euh, its just not there. In fractal reserve banking the bank keeps just a small amount of money inside to be able to pay direct transactions. For that reason they have put caps on daily withdrawal amounts too, too high caps would bring them into trouble.

That’s one side of the story: they wasted your money on bad loans and don’t know how to pay it back. But there is more to this crisis. The whole American economy and partly European economies and other economies are debt-based. The American national debt has risen in the last eight years from 5 trillion dollars to 10 trillion dollars. So it has doubled under the Bush administration. This is all borrowed money. It has to be paid back. And every time the amount gets higher, it gets harder to pay back because of the interest issue. So what we see here is a debt figure that has risen to such an astronomic amount it has become virtually impossible to pay it back, or maybe even to stop it from growing. This is the core phenomenon we are dealing with at the moment: Crisis which will return at accelerating speeds, like this debt money is accelerating in size all the time. The effect of this in the long term is an economy in perpetual crisis. There will no longer be good times, bad times, depressions or recessions. People who believe this is a returning pattern in our economies are right, but they forget that we already had a major crisis in this decade: this is the second one. The crisis is a circular pattern but its exponential: it will keep coming back at a faster and faster pace, because debt is an exponential phenomenon.

The American author Gore Vidal wrote a book called ‘Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace’. In it he suggests that America has to stay in a state of Perpetual war to afford their lifestyle – there is much true about that, and what we will now see is that the economy more and more will follow a Perpetual Crisis model: faster and faster will these Crisis return. Either that, or there will be a total collapse. I’m not sure which option is the worst one. In the long term a collapse might be much, much more healthy. The 700 dollar bailout plan is of course ridiculous: more debt, to keep ‘things running’.

There is no quick fix, this time around. It’s pretty hilarious to see McCain and Obama talk of nothing but tax cuts.

Martijn Benders, Dutch writer and Freelance Economist

Mutant Bond Girl

Mutant Bond Girl

El Rey Del Merengue – Luis Kalaff

Another great Latin artist: Luis Kalaff. Specialist in the Merengue, a music form originating on the Dominican Republic. The Merengue is sort of an uptempo salsa, but it offers plenty variation and on this record we see plenty of jazz influences also. Great horn section! My favourite track is ‘Ahi Viena la Nena’ which, if my Spanish is sufficient, is a song about the Hurricane? At any rate this record is a must have for lovers of Latin American music. It was published in 2007 on the West Side Latino Records Label.

My brother just saw the documentary about Arthur Russell and…

My brother just saw the documentary about Arthur Russell and said it was great.  Go see Wild Combination.

The Empty Stage as an Art object – Colorium by Rivkah Young

Rivkah Young is an artist born in Koln, Germany. One of her projects is called ‘Colorium’ and it evolves around photographing empty stages. The stage normally doesn’t get any attention as an object, it is always treated as applied art at best, as something dependant on the artists or showmasters that perform there. That is why Rivkah Youngs photographs are very special. Her photographs evoke an almost alien sense of beauty and her eye for composition is remarkable.

Her pictures evoke a strange sense of beauty and solitude. She gave me permission to post some of them on Loewak:

More of Rivkah Young’s work can be seen on her website. She also has a PDF with all the Colorium works online:

Website – Colorium PDF

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die but only retire a little from…”

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music review: Chico O’Farrill: Heart of a Legend

My favorite record lately is ‘Heart of a Legend’ by Chico O’Farrill, published in 1999 on the Milestone label. I played it constantly last week. O’Farrill is one of the most interesting names in Latin jazz music, and this record has an overall excellent quality of tracks, with ‘Trumpet fantasy’ and ‘Sing your Blues away’ as highlights. I am seriously in love with Latin jazz lately and O’Farrill plays in a variety of styles: he combines a big band sound with improvisation and free jazz, and the result is unique and a pleasure to listen to. Maybe this is my all-time favourite Latin jazz record, I am not sure.

The funny thing is, O’Farrill was the major influence of one of my other favorites, Cal Tjader. It’s a pity that many of O’Farrill’s recordings are out of print, but this record offers some good highlights for those unfamiliar with his work.

Loewak opens astrology section

I am planning to build several different sections to Loewak, as announced earlier. Last weeks I have been busy building a new and hopefully useful/entertaining astrology section for this site. The section focusses on flirting techniques and character descriptions for the various signs, with a section about the Court cards in Tarot and how these rule over the Zodiac as well.

The Astrology section is thus the second subsection of Loewak to open its doors, after I have opened the Dutch Literature section one month ago:

Visit the Astrology section

Visit the Dutch Literature section

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Culture Shock

3,408 years ago a man laid down underneath the head of the Great Sphinx at Giza. The sun god was at its apex, blazing heat down onto the lone figure and the colossal stone monument-to-mystery. At that time the Great Sphinx was buried in sand up to its powerful shoulders. The man searched for respite from the sun god in the Great Sphinx’s shadow. As he slept beneath the chin of the stone god he was visited by a living god. Hamarkhis-Khopri-Ra-Tum appeared to the young man. “You will become a great man,” he said, “Hear my words and heed them, and you will be made great.” The young man was stunned silent by pious awe—piety and awe are profound modes of life that modern men are no longer capable of, but they were once powerful forces nonetheless. As he gazed in silence Hamarkhis-Khopri-Ra-Tum spoke once more, “Reveal my earthly form to this waning civilization. Restore my majestic glory on earth. Do this and you will taste of immortality.” When the young man awoke from the dream he was sweating and shivering, but he was neither hot nor feverish. He had been given a sacred vision, and he knew his transcendent responsibility.

The young man was the future Pharaoh Thothmos IV. 3,400 years ago he excavated and restored the Great Sphinx, which had been buried in drifting sands after more than 1,000 years of standing watch over the Egyptian tombs called the Great Pyramids. That’s right. The Great Sphinx is over 4,400 years old. Four thousand four hundred years this mythic masterpiece of human spirit has endured. Nowadays we call it a “marvel of human ingenuity,” but that is because we moderns are alien to awe and piety. For us the sacred is just an idea, it is not a value to live one’s life in accordance with. For us such a masterpiece is a marvel of human “ingenuity” and this is why we can’t comprehend its construction. It was not mere inventiveness that made this creature possible. The Great Sphinx could only have been made by a culture in whom the infinite and omnipotent power of spirit moved. A culture quickened and galvanized by a true mythic ethos. A culture for whom ethos was not merely a word, but a living power.

In our day we pride ourselves on having abolished slavery. But I wonder how much different the life of a slave then would have been to the life of a blue collar worker now? We trudge, zombie-like, to our miserable jobs every day searching desperately for any form of distraction to keep us from facing the abysmal truth of our pathetic and hopeless existence. The life of an Egyptian slave must have also been quite painful. But I wonder what it would have felt like to know that you were working on a monument that was truly powerful? A monument that was truly meaningful? A monument that was truly sublime? A monument that was truly awesome? They had to know. There was no escaping the monumentality of that job. If Egyptian slave, Abdul, met modern slave, Bill, what would they say? Abdul would point to an image of the Great Sphinx and say “I helped make that.” Bill would point to a toxin filled burger and say “I put that in a box.”

Original post by Jehosephat Sunrays

A free 4000 page pirated poetry anthology

The website ‘For Godot’ today announced a 4000 page poetry anthology free for download. None of the authors had been asked and none of the authors have written the poems attributed to them. Best project I have seen in years. It’s fun to read the comments of angry windbags that demand the poem they didn’t write to be withdrawn:

Announcing the release of Issue 1, edited by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter. Now available here as a 3,785-page PDF (3.9 MB).

This issue features new poems by Nada Gordon, Evelyn Reilly, Julianna Mundim, Emmy Catedral, Enid Bagnold, Richard Siken, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Gottlieb, Jodie Childers, Norman J. Olson, Brent Hendricks, Sean Kilpatrick, Tom McCarthy, Stacy Doris, Michael Rerick, Corrinne Clegg Hales, Mark Decarteret, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Darren Wershler-Henry, Letitia Trent, Debra Di Blasi, Laura Elrick, Bruna Mori, Popahna Brandes, Robert Sheppard, Diana Magallan, Kristine Danielson, Ed Higgins, Drew Gardner, Kyle Kaufman, Matthew Thorburn, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Christopher Wells, Vanessa Place, Simon Pettet, Grace Vajda, John Bennett, Ian Patterson, Joseph Hutchison, John Cotter, Cheryl Lawson Walker, Scott Esposito, Jason Nelson, Daniel Kane, Kimo Armitage, Alan May, J.D. Nelson, Bob Hershon, Jennifer Karmin, Kim Rosenfield, Nathan Austin, Pearl Pirie, Rosmarie Waldrop, Tara Betts, Donald Revell, Jim Ryals, Danuta Kean, Jeff VanderMeer, Alfredo Bonanno, Irene Latham, Michael Hennesy, Dick Higgins, John Hanson, Billy Merrell, Sam Ladkin, Jeff Ward, Debra Jenks, K. Lorraine Graham, Kenji Okuhira, Sean MacInnes, Adam Seelig, Steve Halle, David Mus, Monique Wittig, Joyelle McSweeney, Daniel E. Levenson, Luke Daly, Henry Thoreau, John Palattella, Abby Trenaman, Kristen Taylor, Vassily Kamensky, David Jhave Johnston, Gene Tanta, Cate Marvin, Alison Roth, Shad Marsh, Asher Ghaffar, Henry Gould, Justin Theroux, Susan Grimm, Bernard Wilson, Ateet Tuli, Laura Moriarty, Mark McMorris, Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, William Shakespeare, Nick Trinen, Daphne Gottlieb, Magdalena Zurawski, A.K. Arkadin, Matthue Roth, Douglas J. Belcher, After Bitahatini, Neil Schmitz, Liz Henry, Tom Hansen, Craig Saper, Pris Campbell, Afua-Kafi Akua, Amish Trivedi, Chris Hutchinson, Cath Vidler, Sarah Weinman, A.E. Stallings, Robin Blaser, Roland Prevost, Mac Wellman, Steven Schroeder, Joy Garnett, Mark Lamoureux, Julie Clark, Bob Garlitz, Jeff Hamilton, Kara Dorris, Maureen Thorson, Irv Muchnick, Frank O’Hara, Robin Magowan, C. Allen Rearick, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, Tony Leuzzi, Bhanu Kapil, Sage U`ilani Takehiro, Shellie Zacharia, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Camille Martin, Eliot Weinberger, David Nemeth, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Iris Smyles, Bertolt Brecht, David Forbes, Colin Herd, Sergio Bessa, Zach Wollard, Adam Ford, Claudia Keelan, Hank Sotto, Jamba Dunn, Ken Mikolowski, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Santiago B. Villafania, David Valentinovia, Robert Kaufman, Dominique Meens, Joe Elliot, August Stramm, Justin Katko! Sandra Korchenko, Carol Peters, Lilah Hegnauer, Brian Evenson, Wallace Stevens, Timothy Murphy, Joseph Bradshaw, Nick Courtright, Adam Chiles, James, Kane X. Faucher, David Abel, Ray Succre, Gabriel Gudding, Antonin Artaud, Mark Cunningham, Paul Fattaruso, William Saroyan, Aaron McCollough, Confucius/Ezra Pound, David Antin, Rob Mackenzie, Ryan Eckes, Christian Peet, Peter Riley, Litsa Spathi, Anna Ahkmatova, Mark Tursi, J.D. Schraffenberger, Greg Fuchs, Sean Casey, Orpingalik, Hassan Melehy, Rosemarie Waldrop, Phillip Lund, Adam Aitken, Michael Davidson, Andrea Rexilius, William Allegrezza, Raymond Queneau, Fred Wah, Marcia Arrieta, Elizabeth Cross, Jonathan Greene, Gregory Laynor, Preston Spurlock, Jane Sprague, Kevin Thurston, Stephen Berry, William Bronk, Claudia Rankine, Steve Dalachinsky, Ed Sanders, Sam Rasnake, Wes Smiderle, James Belflower, Simmons B. Buntin, Dolores Dorantes, Emilie Clark, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sarah O’Brien, Jack Tricarico, Gerard Van der Luen, Frances Richard, Charlie Bertsch, Bob Cobbing, Sabrina Calle, Steven Burt, Stephane Mallarme, Bob Marcacci, Edwin Torres, Lois Marie Harrod, Evgeny Maizel, Luc Simonic, Lawrence Durrell, Amanda Davidson, Pendergast, Gregory Orr, Lepson, Joseph Duemer, Eric Alterman, Erin M. Bertram, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Suzanne Buffam, Andy Nicholson, Edward Champion, Katy Acheson, Okey Ndibe, Jennifer Mulligan, Renee Zepeda, Alfred Kubin, Sawako Nakayasu, David Prater, Forrest Gander, Mike Gubser, Virginia Heatter, Leslie Winer, Ed Schenk, Doug Holder, Russell Ragsdale, Jose Manuel Velazquez, Dick Jones, Gerry Loose, Daniel J. Vaccaro, Rafael Alberti, Jeff Newberry, Igor Terentiev, Micah Robbins, Friedrich Holderlin, Arif Khan, Laurel Dodge, Ann White, Nicolas Guillen, John Lowther, Cathleen Miller, Josef Vachal, Chris Moran, Miyazawa Kenji, Robert Fitterman, Norman Mailer, Doris Shapiro, Talan Menmott, Alan Licht, John Godfrey, James Maughn, Anne Heide, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Judith Goldman, Rich Murphy, Halvard Johnson, Ariel Dorfman, Ed Baker, Maryrose Larkin, Sheila E. Murphy, Rosanna Warren, Jean Cocteau, Clarence Major, Eleanor Stanford, Teresa Carmody, Kenward Elmslie, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ryan Walker, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nava Fader, Rob Budde, Allison Cobb, Robert Roley, Alison Collins, Melissa Fondakowski, Nathan Whiting, Jess Rowan, Cid Corman, Bob Heman, Libby Rosof, Cassie Lewis, Scott Saner, Roberta Allen, Raymond Farr, Anne Pierson Wiese, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Troy Lloyd, Lindsay Boldt, Andrea Baker, Meredith Quartermain, Richard Meier, Louise Mathias, Joseph Cooper, Lynn Strongin, Outlines, Suzanne Stein, Richard de Nooy, Sherry, Robert Chrysler, Ton van’t Hof, Peter Cole, Michael Slosek, June Jordan, Andrew Zitka, Eve Babitz, G.C. Waldrep, Craig Santos Perez, James Sherry, Hugh, David R. Slavitt, Dino Campana, Stephen Berer, Alastair Johnston, Angela Jaeger, Javier Huerta, Jed Birmingham, David Harrison Horton, Alan Baker, Steve Clay, Kevin Coval, Tony Brown, Debesh Goswami, Michael Farrell, Abigail Child, Tanya Larkin, Ron Slate, Emmanuel Hocquard, Lauren Dixon, Jan Zwicky, Andrew Joron, Jessica Wickens, Arthur Sze, David Baptiste Chirot, Steven May, Rob Cook, Ankur Saha, Eric Unger, Chris Heilman, James Purdy, Derek Henderson, James Collins, L.J. Moore, Michael McClure, D.S. Marriott, Michael Heller, Robert Mittenthal, Eileen Tabios, Aki Salmela, Lou Rowan, Jerome Seaton, Lori Lubeski, Paul Hardacre, Rus Bowden, John Wieners, Lauren Levin, Johanna Drucker, Velimir Khlebnikov, Terry Bisson, Martha Plimpton, Miklos Radnoti, Ken Kesey, Matvei Yankelevich, Seth Forrest, Maria Damon, David MacDuff, Kevin Doran, Rob Read, Kristen Gallagher, Rick Visser, Andrei Bely, Sara Crangle, Karl Klingbiel, Jackson Mac Low, Fox, Derik Badman, Paul Griffiths, Oliver Rohe, Mark L. 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Brite, Dylan Hock, Kurt Vonnegut, Mez Breeze, Stephanie Heit, J. Mason, Colleen Lookingbill, John Hall, Michelle Morgan, Alexi Parshchikov, Clemente Padin, Lisa Jarnot, Lance & Andrea Olsen, Mark Wallace, Nancy Kuhl, Xu Smith, Jorge de Lima, Hillary Lyon, Clayton Couch, Gunnar Ekelof, Alex Caldiero, Clifford Burke, Karri Kokko, Brent Goodman, Daniel Clowes, Todd Suomela, Arlene Ang, David McDuff, Bill Sherman, Ezra Mark, Kathryn Pringle, Jem Cohen, Adam Tobin, Thomas Meyer, Clifford Duffy, Anne Waldman, Nancy Shaw, Pilar Olabarria, Chris Maher, Ezra Pound, David Hilmer Rex, Levari, Jerome Sala, Ryan Collins, Alexander Jorgensen, Shouva Chattopadhyay, Linda Susan Jackson, Jonathan Mayhew, Pejk Malinovski, Michael Parker, Claude Simon, Ian Keenan, Peter O’Brien, Jeannie Hoag, Marcel Janko, Beverly Jackson, Loren Webster, Daniel Knudsen, Michael P. Steven, Rose Kelleher, Mare Mikolum, Marcel Broodthaers, Reb Livingston, Steven Lohse, Faye Smailes, Thomas Kinsella, Peter Middleton, Kurt Schwitters, Lou Suarez, Jay Millar, Paul Holman, Michael Palmer, Larry Eigner, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Charles Bernstein, Bill Allegrezza, Tenney Nathanson, Jeff Crouch, Brian Spears, Peter Makin, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Carr, Robinson Jeffers, Fanny Howe, David Vincenti, Erica Wessmann, Lydia Davis, Craig Teicher, Jorge Luiz Antonio, Matt Christie, Jean-Patrice Courtois, Gregory Pardlo, Nathaniel Tarn, Simone Fattal, Orhan Pamuk, Ofelia Hunt, Louise Gluck, David Pavelich, Lanny Quarles, George Seferis, Louise Bogan, Susan Minot, Star Black, Ted Stimpfle, Michael Lally, Sean Whelan, Arlo Quint, Grace Molisa, Jasmine Dream Wagner, Armand Schwerner, Anselm Parlatore, Tom Orange, Frank Kuenstler, Robin Coste Lewis, MacLaren Ross, Nick, Katey Nicosia, Geraldine Connolly, Sharanya Manivannan, Maud Newton, Kerri French, Charles Shere, Stephen Burt, Tony Fitzpatrick, Mark Peters, A. 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Hanratty, Tim Gaze, Kathleen Rooney, Tom Mandel, AnnMarie Eldon, Tom Peters, Billy Jones, Gilbert Adair, Jim ��Behrle, Peter Jay Shippy, Amanda Laughtland, Juliet Cook, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Brian Smith, Aldo Palazzeschi, Richard Denner, Anthony Robinson, Chris Tysh, Christopher Stackhouse, Paul Muldoon, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Ellen Orleans, Robin Reagler, Susan Maxwell, Delia Mellis, John Baker, Jack Boettcher, Lex Camena, Jeffery Bahr, Veronica Montes, Miriam Nichols, Phil Hall, Tyler Carter, Jessica Treat, Mairead Byrne, C.S. Carrier, C.L. 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