December 03, 2003
Ishmael Reed Speaks His Mind
Last night, Ishmael Reed read from his new book, Blues City: A Walk In Oakland at the University Press Bookstore.
It was a good time. Ishmael presentation style is basically his train of thought. At times erratic, usually entertaining. He began the reading by complaining about how initial reviews labelled his book a "rant." He insisted that it's filled with facts, that it's not at all a rant.
He then proceeded to read, and, well, actually, yes, the book is a rant. Very much a rant against Jerry Brown's attempts at gentrifying downtown and West Oakland. Not that his rant is misplaced.
He also addressed Oakland's multicultural stew -- whites, blacks, asians, latinos, even native americans, living and working side by side. Kwanzaa festivals lead by white women. Traditional native american rituals lead by african americans. Etc.
He also touches on a fair amount of Black Panther history, and positions them, to some extent, as unsung heroes.
There was a whiff of conspiratoriality in Reed's dogma, though, again, not without foundation.
The one disappointment is that Reed was terrible in the question and answer session -- I don't think I heard him actually address a single question, instead rambling into some tangential polemic.
Oh, and he lives somewhere near Market and 55th.
And look for more readings at University Press Books.
Posted by peterme at December 3, 2003 04:24 PM | TrackBackAs physician en observant: thoughtful reputation in the era of e-commerce confronts the old fashion word of mouth that docs develope from hard work and community service: currently, professor Mann up in Toronto conveyed to me a concern regarding human liberties and Macro Media: the issue of a flash mob coordinated with persons holding thier camera in a comparametric manner to develope a virtual view orbit requires persons organizing themselves in a phalnx/spartan position. Other logistical issues from Tolsoy's War and Peace discriptions of LaPlace placing of persons on the Europoean battlefeild come to mind:
with all this said, I called some old village poets and nuts (the Unbearables, Steve Cannon, Bob Holeman, Ismael Reed, and yes, Amiri Baraka (who will be reading at the Boweery Poets Bar at 7:30 pm...he is always late) but in the era of spam and viruses, old contacts have since changed email addresses and those who could vouch for my reputation as an activist are no longer available. So back to the issue of reputation, word of mouth as an MD who has concerns about digital images on licences as well as programed segregation and racism: planning a coordinated group of persons who know how to stand to acheive the subtle Mannian (Steve Mann) quantum effects of parrellel processing of informatics to expose the truth, requires reputation as a post: now my email address is on contact list only to prevent theft of patient information so I have quarentined myself and only Knuth, Mann, and other chosen few can get in, but in the process, my attemt to start someting in the lower east side is underminded by my own paranoia and hence, even if I have established an ereputation, I am lost and disconnected,
Tell Mr Reed I am building a situational awareness room withg Professor Mann at the Stoop
also safe bathroom system and a radar wearable computer system that can hack into all the poetry bars in NYC Calfiforna ect for a real time heckling system that cauases the digital licensing of faces to crash....
not bs..ing
trying to get in touch with David Henderson to get the flash mob b=going
Steve Mann is mentioned in the Samrt Mob book for reference;
also have taken pictures of cameras in Newark and bergen county and have it all organized on Ito joi's blog....
[steve cannon+steve Mann= comparametric poetics]
all to 10 power to intersect with Donald Knuth's Hamiltonian arcs...look up his web site at stanford...so we are placing different bits of dat dis and alphbits/byte on computers throught5out the lower east side to get a supercomputing interface...but them ignorant nuyoricans just discinnected thier fax machine so the equations needed to Hack int the fbi files/homeland security systems that will use the didt=gital imnages to run the face recognition systems are not being down loaded by them...we need more computer enginneers at the stoop...
stef
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