A Manifest

So, James and Will should recognize the title of this post, and if not, shame on you both. As you all know this is also about getting a magazine to print, and in order to do that I need content. There is plenty of it posted up here already, but there is something else I would like to include in the initial issue.

I have my own ideas about authorship and how irrelevant it is given the collaborative nature of everything, and I'll give credit to Will for saying the word synthesis enough that it finally stuck. But, what I would like to get into the first couple pages is maybe 500 words about your take on what Synthesis [the action of what we're doing, and why its important rather than just waxing about collaboration] is. I'm thinking these should be anonymous outside of this blog, but I would imagine that most would be able to peg that long equation I got in my inbox to James should he decide to go that route.

And the title, for Shane and Anthony since you weren't at Bukowski's that day...

A Manifest: a man if est; A Man, if. . . Is.

Our conversation stemmed from the irrelevance of the "-isms". There is no style, there are no paradigms, no pedagogues; everything just is. It exists because it can be acknowledged, and we exist to be acknowledged; the taxonomy of it all is meaningless as the work of all "things" is the end result of action wrought on matter. So the work we set to is a drive, a manifest; conscious, subconscious, hyper-conscious, whatever, to inscribe ourselves to durations of time through physical objects so that we may cement our existence in space as well.

So, perhaps that is what this issue is, the realization of our collective Manifest.

Now go get some beers or whiskey and get to writing!