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Issue 3.13

Winter 2011: Manifestos Now!

Editors: Brian Ganter and Jenny Penberthy

Manifestos from Christian Bök, Steve McCaffery, Kim Minkus, Jeff Derksen, derek beaulieu, and others. Manifesto fiction by Marie-Hélène Tessier. Artists Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber present visual manifestos. Margot Leigh Butler and UBC Humanities 101 tell us what Downtown Eastsiders Want.

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Contributors

Brian Ganter

Preface: Manifesto, Unremitting

Gregory Betts

Rise Above History: A Manifesto for More Manifestos

Christian Bök

Flarf, Arf, Arf, Arf!

Marie-Hélène Tessier

Manifesto

Sabine Bitter Helmut Weber

Super Students

PROVAG

manifesto of the provisional avant-garde

The Georgia Straight

The Georgia Straight Manifesto

Pierre Coupey

Plains and Straights: On the Founding Manifesto of the Georgia Straight

Greg Bachar

THE ONLY MANIFESTO IS THE BLANK PAGE

Hadley+Maxwell

Dear Brian, and Verb List Compilations 1967-8 & 2010

Jules Romains

Poetry & Unanimous Feelings (translated by Louis Cabri)

Frank Davey

Maxims for Assisting Afghanistan

Oliver Hockenhull

TiC PoP PoP TiC: The Timeless Pupil of the Eye

Peter McLaren

Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy for a Socialist Society: A Manifesto

Margot Leigh Butler

HuManifesto

Participants in Humanities 101 Writing Course

What Do Downtown Eastsiders Want?

Steve McCaffery

A Manifesto for Triplicity

Edward Top

Pluralist Music Composition, a Manifesto

Kim Minkus

Laneway

Alex MacKenzie

DEAF EARS

Sheila Ross

Givenness and the Word of the Creature

Marie-Hélène Tessier

Of Language: A Lesson from Brother So-and-So

Nikki Reimer

manifest/later

Jeff Derksen

The Long Moment

Derek Beaulieu

26 Statements on poetry

Amanda Dawn Christie

Return to Spectacle: A Cinemanifesto

Reg Johanson

"Our Bodies Feel Struggle": Loving / Hating the Symptom In Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee

Colin Browne

A Capillary Manifesto

Henri Meschonnic

A Rhythm Party Manifesto (translated by Lisa Robertson and Avra Spector)

Crystal Hurdle

"Freedom of Chickens" Manifesto

Alberta Research Group (ARG)

Manifesto to Contest the Manifesto Contest

Sabine Bitter Helmut Weber

COVER: Super Students #1, "The Board's action showed more concern about our image than the rights and academic freedom on which this university was founded" (Student society president Stan Wong, March 1967), 2010

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