This series began from the “desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis” (“Post-Crisis Poetics”). To continue constructing a network of practices and encourage discussion, that essay closed with an invitation for views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present.
Brian Ang, Writing the World-System Olive Blackburn, The Summer of 1934: Art and Struggle in San Francisco Dereck Clemons, In American Sci Fi Magazines alex cruse, BODY NEGATIVE Jeff Derksen, The Militant Word Helen Dimos Tongo Eisen-Martin, I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money Rob Halpern, THE WOUND & THE CAMP, or VISCERAL SOLIDARITY: Some Notes toward a Radical Queer Poetics Roberto Harrison, tecumseh republic Carrie Hunter, Post-Crisis Poetics Brenda Iijima, S + COP – E = Computational Topographical Fur Josef Kaplan, Friends Forever Nicholas Komodore, Lipos-polis (towards Amphi-polis) Michael Leong, Towards a Disorientalist Poetics Trisha Low, from Socialist Realism T.C. Marshall, A Secret Agent, a Spaceman, & a Talking Bear: A Theory of Doubling the Stakes in Poetry Chris Nealon, The Matter of Capital in 2016 Robert Andrew Perez, On Productive Ambivalence, Or Liminality, Or 27 Notes on Butch Kween Poetics Mg Roberts, a zeppelin, a blossom Oki Sogumi Christine Stewart Cruel Work: Chris Chen Interviews Wendy Trevino Cassandra Troyan, from POSTSCRIPT FOR A FUTURE’S PAST Jeanine Onori Webb, Stars, Seeds, Swarms: on the present and future of border-area action collectives Steven Zultanski
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
ARMED CELL 12
SHANE BOOK
ALL OF THE THINGS
UTILLIAN 720
MURDERIZED BORDER
ZACK HABER
from HORRIBLE PLACES
DANIELLE LAFRANCE
I MIGHT DIE BEFORE I LIKE IT
MICHAEL LEONG
from DISORIENTATIONS
EMJI SPERO
FREEWAY STATEMENT
CALEB BECKWITH
THEY LIVE
ACCELERATIONIST RENAISSANCE
DIALECTICIANS
COUNTER-HEGEMONIC DYSPHORIA
MUTUAL AID
BLACK BLOC IN THE NATION
OR, THE MATERIALISTS
NEWBIES LAMENT
BROKEN WINDOWS
I LOVE THE RESISTANCE!
BUBBLE WRAP
DESPERATE TIMES
TOLERANCE
WHITE FEMINISM
EMBODIMENT
FRICTIONLESS DIFFERENCE, OR
PEACEFUL PROTEST
NOSTALGIA
ECONOMIC REALISM
COGNITIVE LABOR
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Mayakov+sky Platform
from Lipos-polis (towards Amphi-polis)
mayakov-plus-sky.blogspot.com
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ARMED CELL 12 was first distributed at Desert Poetry, Landers and Joshua Tree, April 7-9, 2017. ARMED CELL 13 will appear in October 2017. Submit cover images and writing by the end of August 2017 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)
Friday, March 31, 2017
Post-Crisis Poetics series
Editor Brian Ang’s “Post-Crisis Poetics” essay closed with an invitation for views of what writing can contribute to investigating the post-crisis present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis. Through April, in alphabetical order, views from numerous writers will be serialized a piece per day at postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Post-Crisis Poetics conversation
Editor Brian Ang in conversation about post-crisis poetics with Caleb Beckwith at The Conversant.
“I launched ARMED CELL in 2011 at the Durruti Free Skool, convened by Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr in Berkeley. Our projects shared a desire for a social poetics, a poetics resonant with social struggles. The magazine’s first poem, David Lau’s “Communism Today,” takes as its context the California anti-austerity university struggles that began in 2009, the first significant resistance to the 2008 economic crisis in the United States, as Jasper Bernes has argued. Joshua, David, Jasper, and I were participants in those struggles; responding to the crisis was central to participants’ practical understanding, that the crisis crystallized the secular stagnation of systemic capital accumulation projecting an absent future of exacerbated dispossession, exploitation, and unemployment, and we extended our investigations through poetry. My editing has emphasized a multiplicity of writing attuned to senses since the crisis; I first named “post-crisis poetics” in my analysis of “Communism Today” and extended the term in my essay analyzing writing from every issue to that time. My essay closed with an invitation to readers for further views for a series that I’m editing in order to continue developing this historical perspective’s suggestiveness for writing.”
“I launched ARMED CELL in 2011 at the Durruti Free Skool, convened by Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr in Berkeley. Our projects shared a desire for a social poetics, a poetics resonant with social struggles. The magazine’s first poem, David Lau’s “Communism Today,” takes as its context the California anti-austerity university struggles that began in 2009, the first significant resistance to the 2008 economic crisis in the United States, as Jasper Bernes has argued. Joshua, David, Jasper, and I were participants in those struggles; responding to the crisis was central to participants’ practical understanding, that the crisis crystallized the secular stagnation of systemic capital accumulation projecting an absent future of exacerbated dispossession, exploitation, and unemployment, and we extended our investigations through poetry. My editing has emphasized a multiplicity of writing attuned to senses since the crisis; I first named “post-crisis poetics” in my analysis of “Communism Today” and extended the term in my essay analyzing writing from every issue to that time. My essay closed with an invitation to readers for further views for a series that I’m editing in order to continue developing this historical perspective’s suggestiveness for writing.”
Sunday, October 30, 2016
ARMED CELL 11
ERA OF ZERO
PAUL EBENKAMP
PEACE
CHEENA MARIE LO
“HOW A MESS IS MADE”
ANDREW JORON
ALARMIST
REVERSING RIVER
DAVID BUUCK
AUTOMATIC INSURRECTION
ANDREA ABI-KARAM
IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHY
BRIAN ANG
ARMED ASSEMBLAGE CELL CONSTRUCTION
Edited by Brian Ang
alexcruse.tumblr.com
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ARMED CELL 11 was first distributed at the David Lau, Brian Ang, and Molly Bendall reading at the Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, October 29, 2016. ARMED CELL 12 will appear in April 2017. Submit cover images and writing by the end of February 2017 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)Friday, April 8, 2016
Post-Crisis Poetics essay
Editor Brian Ang’s “Post-Crisis Poetics”:
“Post-crisis poetics: desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis.” Analyzing David Lau, Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Steven Zultanski, Maya Weeks, Wendy Trevino and Dereck Clemons, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, Anne Lesley Selcer, and Rob Halpern, and with an invitation for further views. “Post-crisis poetics: construction of a network of practices adequate to writing the present, the post-crisis period in progress. Toward its construction, I’ve analyzed practices investigating multiple dimensions of the post-crisis world-system, suggesting lines for multiplying the communization of knowledge within the unfolding present. To continue construction and encourage discussion, readers are invited to give their views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present for a series that I’m editing to be published over the course of a month. Submit to armedcell@gmail.com by the end of July 2016 for consideration. The series will be published at postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com.”
“Post-crisis poetics: desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis.” Analyzing David Lau, Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Steven Zultanski, Maya Weeks, Wendy Trevino and Dereck Clemons, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, Anne Lesley Selcer, and Rob Halpern, and with an invitation for further views. “Post-crisis poetics: construction of a network of practices adequate to writing the present, the post-crisis period in progress. Toward its construction, I’ve analyzed practices investigating multiple dimensions of the post-crisis world-system, suggesting lines for multiplying the communization of knowledge within the unfolding present. To continue construction and encourage discussion, readers are invited to give their views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present for a series that I’m editing to be published over the course of a month. Submit to armedcell@gmail.com by the end of July 2016 for consideration. The series will be published at postcrisispoetics.blogspot.com.”
ARMED CELL 10
POST-CRISIS POETICS
ALEX CRUSE
WALLED LOCUS
UNTITLED
UNTITLED
ANOTHER UNUSABLE GAZE
ANNE LESLEY SELCER
COMMAND POEM
CASSANDRA TROYAN
from THIS WORLD MUST DISAPPEAR
MAYA WEEKS
from SERIAL POEM AGAINST THE STATE: THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
“HOW WAS IT IN SACRAMENTO?”
DAVID LAU
LIKE A STORM SYSTEM OF POST-QE EMERGING MARKET BUBBLES
Edited by Brian Ang
from tactile return (2016)
axlecurse.tumblr.com
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ARMED CELL 10 was first distributed in Brian Ang and Jeff Derksen’s “Post-Crisis Militant Word” seminar in the Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years conference, University at Buffalo, April 9, 2016. ARMED CELL 11 will appear in October 2016. Submit cover images and writing by the end of August 2016 for consideration. Post-crisis poetics series: submit by the end of July 2016 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Post-Crisis Militant Word
Editor Brian Ang and Jeff Derksen are co-leading a seminar at Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years entitled "Post-Crisis Militant Word," April 9-10, 2016, University at Buffalo. Participation is limited to 15; proposals will be added in the order they are received.
“This seminar combines two critical poetics perspectives on the present: Brian Ang’s ‘Post-Crisis Poetics’ and Jeff Derksen’s ‘The Militant Word.’ ‘The Militant Word’ inquires into the plurality of militant poetries present and past, while ‘Post-Crisis Poetics’ concerns critical poetries since the 2008 economic crisis, with a perspective toward transformations over ‘the next 25 years’ and beyond. Discussion seeks further perspectives from participants in order to exchange awarenesses and multiply connections with their own practices.”
“This seminar combines two critical poetics perspectives on the present: Brian Ang’s ‘Post-Crisis Poetics’ and Jeff Derksen’s ‘The Militant Word.’ ‘The Militant Word’ inquires into the plurality of militant poetries present and past, while ‘Post-Crisis Poetics’ concerns critical poetries since the 2008 economic crisis, with a perspective toward transformations over ‘the next 25 years’ and beyond. Discussion seeks further perspectives from participants in order to exchange awarenesses and multiply connections with their own practices.”
ARMED CELL 9
HOC EST CORPUS
JAMES YEARY
from SARTRE’S SUNGLASSES
ALEX CRUSE
CONTRAVERSE
JUDITH GOLDMAN
||| Mare Nostrum ||| [Red Seas] ||| FRONTEX ||| metadata |||
DAVID LAU
THE THREE WANTS
PYTHIAN
GARBAGE COLLECTORS
SUMMER RAINS
STEVEN SEIDENBERG
from PLAIN SIGHT
Edited by Brian Ang
from Shock and Awe
ethanrafal.com
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ARMED CELL 9 was first distributed at the Brian Ang, Alex Cruse, and David Lau reading for Hearts Desire, Omni Oakland Commons, October 10, 2015. ARMED CELL 10 will appear in April 2016. Submit cover images and writing by the end of February 2016 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)Thursday, July 2, 2015
ARMED CELL display
A display of ARMED CELL’s covers and poems is part of Bibli-Agora, a group show on publishing and social engagement. Opening feast is July 4; editor Brian Ang will read in the opening’s performances. Show runs through July.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Post-Crisis Poetics seminar
Editor Brian Ang is leading a seminar at Crosstalk, Color, Composition: A Berkeley Poetry Conference on “Post-Crisis Poetics,” Thursday, June 18, 10:30am-12:30pm, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public.
Seminar texts: “Post-Crisis Poetics” preview, and poetries by David Lau, Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Steven Zultanski, Maya Weeks, Wendy Trevino and Dereck Clemons, Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Anne Lesley Selcer published in ARMED CELL.
Discussion will concern the post-crisis poetics concept, the seminar poetries, and further perspectives about what poetry and poetics contribute or could contribute to critically thinking about the post-crisis period in progress, including connections with participants’ works.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
ARMED CELL 8
“AN ACCELERATED ALPHABET...”
from SUN CYCLE
SEAN BONNEY
LAMENTATIONS
DONATO MANCINI
from INTROSPECTIVE DATA
SARA LARSEN
from MERRY HELL
BRUCE ANDREWS
from ALMOST ENOUGH
DAVID BUUCK
WE FOUND LULZ IN A HAPLESS PLACE
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Mayakov+sky Platform
from Reddish Green – Timomachia, an essay on capital and amphoteric valuemayakov-plus-sky.blogspot.com
Physical edition of 100
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ARMED CELL 8 was first distributed at the Brian Ang, Donato Mancini, and Anne Lesley Selcer reading at La Commune Café and Bookstore, Oakland, February 27, 2015. ARMED CELL 9 will appear in August 2015. Submit cover images and writing by the end of June 2015 for consideration.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Post-Crisis Poetics preview
Editor Brian Ang’s response to “Can poetry have a socio-political impact?” for Jacket2’s Quick Question series, as a preview of his forthcoming “post-crisis poetics” essay and series projects:
“In a forthcoming essay, ‘Post-Crisis Poetics,’ I connect readings of poetries that I’ve published in my magazine ARMED CELL. I started my magazine in August 2011 to publish poetry and poetics open to values emerging from the global waves of struggles since the 2008 economic crisis. The magazine’s title was drawn from a desire for militant intransigence signified by that form of struggle, a value of the California anti-austerity university struggles that began in 2009, the first significant resistance to the crisis in the United States. The university struggles are the context for the magazine’s first poem, David Lau’s ‘Communism Today’: its first section ends ‘Occupy everything, including Humanities,’ an extension of the university struggles’ slogan that influenced the Occupy movement that began in September 2011 from a politicization of space and time toward a politicization of knowledge, an emblem for the magazine’s desire for an historicized critical poetics. My editing has aspired to assemble complexes for thinking about each issue’s moment’s unfolding multiple dimensions suggestive for further critical writing.”
“In a forthcoming essay, ‘Post-Crisis Poetics,’ I connect readings of poetries that I’ve published in my magazine ARMED CELL. I started my magazine in August 2011 to publish poetry and poetics open to values emerging from the global waves of struggles since the 2008 economic crisis. The magazine’s title was drawn from a desire for militant intransigence signified by that form of struggle, a value of the California anti-austerity university struggles that began in 2009, the first significant resistance to the crisis in the United States. The university struggles are the context for the magazine’s first poem, David Lau’s ‘Communism Today’: its first section ends ‘Occupy everything, including Humanities,’ an extension of the university struggles’ slogan that influenced the Occupy movement that began in September 2011 from a politicization of space and time toward a politicization of knowledge, an emblem for the magazine’s desire for an historicized critical poetics. My editing has aspired to assemble complexes for thinking about each issue’s moment’s unfolding multiple dimensions suggestive for further critical writing.”
Friday, July 4, 2014
ARMED CELL 7
QUESTIONS OF THE CONTEMPORARY
ANGELA HUME
from MELOS
DERECK CLEMONS
from FML
OLIVE BLACKBURN
from COMMUNISM IS UP THERE AND WE ARE DOWN HERE BUT IT IS HAPPENING NOW
TED REES
from CATASTROPHE CROWN: 1-5
KENNETH GOLDSMITH
DISPLACEMENT IS THE NEW TRANSLATION
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Mayakov+sky Platform
from an Odyssey (an anti-ode essay on Architecture)mayakov-plus-sky.blogspot.com
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ARMED CELL 7 was first distributed at the East Bay Poetry Summit, Berkeley and Oakland, July 2-6, 2014. ARMED CELL 8 will appear in January 2015. Submit cover images and writing by the end of November 2014 for consideration.
Monday, January 27, 2014
ARMED CELL 6
JASPER BERNES
from WE ARE NOTHING AND SO CAN YOU
BARRETT WATTEN
from ZONE
NATALIE KNIGHT
BIG BEND
BILL MARSH
from NOTHING DOING
CARRIE HUNTER
from ORPHAN MACHINES
AARON WINSLOW
FEEDING THE SEAWALL
STEPHEN VOYCE
from DRONE ON
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Mayakov+sky
from The Purloined Question (towards Plasti-City)
mayakov-plus-sky.blogspot.com
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ARMED CELL 6 was first distributed at the Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion 6 reading at the Studio One Art Center, Oakland, January 26, 2014. ARMED CELL 7 will appear in July 2014. Submit cover images and writing by the end of May 2014 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)
Saturday, August 10, 2013
ARMED CELL 5
WENDY TREVINO & DERECK CLEMONS
“A BEGINNING...”
BRIAN ANG
POST-CRISIS POETICS: DAVID LAU’S “COMMUNISM TODAY”
ERIC LINSKER
WE’RE SO SOCIAL NOW
DAVID LAU
FANFARE FOR THE WARRIORS
KATY BOHINC
from DEAR ALAIN
ALEJANDRO VENTURA
MANIFESTO # -1: NOTES ON NON-PARTICIPATION
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Kern Haug
from 10x10 Parrhesiastes for Anarchy’s Necessary-Imagination
kernhaug.com
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ARMED CELL 5 was first distributed at the Brian Ang and Kern Haug drums and text performance at the Breathing Works installation, New York City, August 9, 2013. ARMED CELL 6 will appear in February 2014. Submit cover images and writing by the end of December 2013 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
ARMED CELL 5 announcement
ARMED CELL 5 will be first available at the Brian Ang and Kern Haug drums and text performances in New York City
Friday August 9, Breathing Works installation, 208 Forsyth St., 7pm (+ Amelia Stein presentation on painting)
Saturday August 10, Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard St., 8pm (+ DJs)
Friday August 9, Breathing Works installation, 208 Forsyth St., 7pm (+ Amelia Stein presentation on painting)
Saturday August 10, Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard St., 8pm (+ DJs)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
ARMED CELL NYC
ARMED CELL contributors Eric Linsker and Genji Amino and editor Brian Ang reading in New York on March 1
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, New York
7pm
Facebook event
Also: Ang presenting “Totality and Method” on February 26, also at Unnameable Books, 7pm (with Shiv Kotecha)
“Notes on ‘totality’ and its implications for writing ‘method,’ including on Ang’s The Totality Cantos and further social implications.”
Suggested reading: Joshua Clover, “Georgic for the World-System”
Facebook event
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, New York
7pm
Facebook event
Also: Ang presenting “Totality and Method” on February 26, also at Unnameable Books, 7pm (with Shiv Kotecha)
“Notes on ‘totality’ and its implications for writing ‘method,’ including on Ang’s The Totality Cantos and further social implications.”
Suggested reading: Joshua Clover, “Georgic for the World-System”
Facebook event
Saturday, February 2, 2013
ARMED CELL 4
from EASTBOUND/NORTHBOUND
JOE LUNA
from FAILCORE
BRAD FLIS
from FOOD
BRIAN ANG
DEMOCRACY IS NOT FOR THE PEOPLE
DANIELLE LAFRANCE
THE WRITING OF FRIENDSHIP AND THE ANARCHO-ABJECT
GENJI AMINO
CORNISH
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Coupe
Crying Room
coupeletat.org
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ARMED CELL 4 was first distributed at the Lyn Hejinian, Joshua Clover, and Brian Ang reading at the Studio One Art Center, Oakland, California, February 1, 2013. ARMED CELL 5 will appear in August 2013. Submit cover images and writing by the end of June 2013 for consideration.
Email your mailing address to armedcell@gmail.com for a free physical copy while available. (No longer available)
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Monday, January 21, 2013
ARMED CELL 4 announcement
ARMED CELL 4 will be first available at the Lyn Hejinian, Joshua Clover, and Brian Ang reading at the Studio One Art Center, Oakland, February 1
Clover and Ang in conversation
Facebook event
Clover and Ang in conversation
Facebook event
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