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Double Consciousness, Scott Abbott
Double Consciousness, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
David Albahari's two books newly available in English translations (Yale UP and Dalkey Archive) both portray emigrants from the former Yugoslavia in terms of identity flux, a condition that might be called "double consciousness."
Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic
Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic
Scott Abbott
As a follow-up to their first collaboration Repetitions (published in Belgrade in 1994, and in English by punctum books in 2013), in 2008 the authors published, also in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, published now by punctum as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radaković’s fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that …
Rainer Splitt’S Farbgüsse / Colorpours, Scott Abbott
Rainer Splitt’S Farbgüsse / Colorpours, Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
Rainer Splitt (contemporary German artist) recently exhibited a series of what he calls Farbgüsse or Colorpours. The essays views these works in a context that may be described as "The Motion of Form and the Form of Motion."
Wild Rides And Wildflowers: Philosophy And Botany With Bikes, Scott Abbott, Sam Rushforth
Wild Rides And Wildflowers: Philosophy And Botany With Bikes, Scott Abbott, Sam Rushforth
Scott Abbott
This book bears only passing resemblance to any book we have read to date. We hope it is comical, perhaps in ways that will remind readers of NPR’s “Car Talk,” where listeners share the good natured and sometimes acidic banter between brothers who also know a lot about cars. We hope it is moving, not in the extended ways Terry Tempest Williams often achieves, but through surprising comments and stories that accompany the bike rides and that, over the course of four years, add up to a larger picture. We hope it is informative, not in the comprehensive way John …