Apocalypticon

Mechanization and displacement, dehumanization and defacement, the scattering of diseases of the mind throughout the planet,  the powers to bring people together to work for or be thrust toward a common humiliation has resulted in unprecedented, often cute, expressions of cruelty, novelties of mania, the species become as one giant infant with an array of exotic toys, a boomeranging of knowledge, the study of physics leading to, the study of chemistry leading to, the study of philosophy leading to, all studies leading to infiniform degradation, and the predictable revolt of the survivors, who have formed an apocalyticon of antecedents for those who today revolt in their various ways, like their predecessors ultimately mysteriously, without coherence, without allegiance, without hope.

Apocalypticon 1  Vitomil Zupan

 

Apocalypticon 2  Jaroslav Hašek

Apocalypticon 3  Woody Guthrie

Apocalypticon 4  Antonio Lobo Antunes

Apocalypticon 5  Franz Kafka, begging the question: Is there an order to these semblances? Yes, numerical. Is there meaning to the order? Of course not.

Apocalypticon 6  Francois Rabelais

7 Julio Coratazar

8  Tristan Tzara

9  Lisa Chen

10  Blaise Cendrars

11  Frida Kahlo

12  Obeyd e Zakani

13  Dmitri Shostakovich

14  Alfre Schnittke

15   Uncle Ho

16  James Joyce

17  Samuel Beckett

18   Flann O’Brien

19  Emma Goldman

20  Can Themba

21  Brendan Behan

22  Hunter Thompson

23  Mohammed Ali

24  Sofia Gubaidulina

25  Groucho

outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend, inside of a dog it’s too dark too read

26  Daša Drndić

27

Milorad Pavić

28  Fernand Braudel

29  Picasso

30 Henry Miller

31 For Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa…but I could not bear to post his face, so Gabriel Garcia Marquez

32 Miguel Angel Asturias

33 Juan Rulfo

34 Robert Walser

35  Max Frisch

36 Remy de Gourmont

 

37 Brecht

38 Alfred Doblin

39  Onetti

40 Zora Neale Hurston

41 Scott Coffel

42 Remedios Varo

43

Ishmael Reed

44

William Gaddis

45

Alvaro Mutis

46 Roberto Arlt

47 Miguel Marmol

4 Dead in Ohio! 1932: 30,000 dead in El Salvadaor, Marmol survived…