I’m waking. I am awake. I’ve sown the seeds. I reap the harvest of daily disease. Three souls leave this room tonight. I’m waking to mornings of bitter coffee (I’ll just drop two sugars) bitter disease. Thoughts of bitterness and disease that clamp clasp and close the soul tight – tight like the rope, the ropes that pull our college flags high above our cities. Cities infected with fear and concern limp and weak like bloody mucus seeping through the table top. I’ll tell you again, life’s taught me the importance of selective memory taught me that remembering to forget is on my list of things-to-do like laundry. What about the prescriptive drugs that sit on the tip of my tongue, in or out uncertainty? I hate indecision. Powerlessness is everywhere in parlours, in bank houses and now on park benches. Listen. I’m waking. Yes I'm awake to latch-key kids and their one-minute heroes. Here goes, throw yourself into school corridors and witness incomplete workbooks, lonesome desks, absent flipcharts – minds forging their way through what’s not on the curriculum. Wake up! Three souls leave this room tonight. Why fear pain – that strain to stretch the rope that will divide your world from mine. Fine. Ok. If it’s rope and the soul you speak of
Rope, to get rid of soul

To get rid of soul, rope

Rid of rope to get soul

Get soul rid of rope to

Rope, rid of soul to get

Soul, to get rid of rope
To get rid of rope, soul

Rid of soul to get rope

Get rope rid of soul to
Soul, rid of rope to get
Ok Ok If it’s this we speak of tie me to my soul with rope. How can I? It left two hours ago along with the hopeless. Why to wander the streets of New York alone piss-fights jello ellis island city cops and fists. It’s probably on its way now from taxi to backalley. Three souls leave this room tonight. Yeah mine left early.

Antonio Gramsci
imprisoned in 1927
Antonio Gramsci and hegemony.
Hegemony
social power and domination
Gramsci's innovative perception
that
power can be maintained without force
that
if
the consent of the dominated
can be obtained
through education
through kinds of cultural labour
power can be maintained without force.
"civil society"
"political society"
correspond to the function of
hegemony.
The intellectuals
the dominant group
exercise the function of
hegemony.
Consent given by the masses
to the general direction
imposed
on
social life
by the dominant group.
Discipline
constituted
for the whole of society
in anticipation of
crisis
power can be maintained without force.

Handmade and Bound

The Affordable London Book-Art and Zine Fair

saturday 8th november

12 - 6 pm

st. aloysius social club

phoenix rd, london nw1

(nearest tube: euston)

free entry

for further info: www.handmadeandbound.com

The next Openned night takes place on Tuesday 18th November
at 7.15pm
at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL Old Street tube (exit3 ).
Readers: Harry Gilonis, Chris Goode, Luke Roberts, me (Karen Sandhu), plus another extract from the video interview with Allen Fisher
Admission free.
http://openned.com/