The Bastardization of Dream

John Haber interviewed me for his Art Reviews website haberarts.com.

The interview can be found here The Bastardization of Dream.

Lumpen Orientalism

My new blog Lumpen Orientalism is now up.

Frozen Tears III

John Russell has just announced Frozen Tears III will be available in November 2006.

I have a series of drawings which make up a visual narration entitled Maskh (Metamorphosis in Farsi) in the book.

Frozen Tears can be visited at www.frozentears.co.uk

COLLAPSE

COLLAPSE : Journal of Philosophical Research and Development

The first issue of Collapse is out Now including articles from Reza Negarestani and Nick Land. See Urbanomic's notice below or check Urbanomic’s website for more information.

Dear Friends

We are pleased to announce that COLLAPSE VOLUME I has gone to press and will be shipping before the end of this month. You can subscribe or pre-order a copy of Volume I on the Urbanomic website now.




COLLAPSE Volume I
September 2006.
Paperback 115×175mm 288pp.
Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies.
ISBN 0-9553087-0-4
Price £5/€8/$10

COLLAPSE is an unprecedented conjuncture of work by leading practitioners in diverse fields. Conceived as a carefully-compiled, compendious miscellany, grimoire or as an instruction manual without referent, as a delirious carnival of sobriety, COLLAPSE operates its war against good sense not through romantic flight but through the formal insanity secreted in the depths of the rational (‘the rational is not reasonable’).

It aims to force unforeseen conjunctions, singular correspondences, and cross-fertilisations; to diagram abstract sensations as yet unnamed.

The journal COLLAPSE exists as the explosive, perhaps fragmentary, product of the passion for thought, unrestrained by any thematic or formal constraint, any justificatory relation to any agency whatsoever.

Contents of volume I:
ALAIN BADIOU
‘Philosophy, Sciences, Mathematics’ (Interview)
GREGORY CHAITIN
‘Epistemology as Information Theory’
REZA NEGARESTANI
‘The Militarization of Peace’
MATTHEW WATKINS
‘Prime Evolution (Interview)’
‘INCOGNITUM’
‘Introduction to ABJAD’
NICK BOSTROM
‘Existential Risk (Interview)
THOMAS DUZER
‘On the Mathematics of Intensity’
KEITH TILFORD
‘Crowds’
NICK LAND
‘Qabbala 101’

Mewsing

I will be using Mewsing to share news regarding art and writing projects or anything of interest. I also plan to highlight mentionable projects and news of friends and colleagues.

Kristenalvanson.com is currently being revised; once it is complete my intention is to continue using Mewsing for news updates.

About

Kristen Alvanson is an artist and writer based in the US. She attended The Cooper Union and holds a degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She has participated in group/solo shows in New York, Tehran, Shiraz, London, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Kessel-Lo, Zürich and Vilnius+++. Her writing and artwork has been published in anthologies and magazines such as Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research and Development, Cabinet, Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary, New Humanist, Frozen Tears III, Specialten, and Transmission Annual+++. And in books such such as WONDERBOOK: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction, by Jeff VanderMeer (Abrams Image, October, 2013),The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (Harper Voyager, 2011) and Cyclonopedia, by Reza Negarestani (re:press, 2008).

email: kristenalvanson@gmail.com
website: www.kristenalvanson.com