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Anarchy: New York City-January 1998 Hardcover - 2001

by John Cage


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"That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available of the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society.

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  • Title Anarchy: New York City-January 1998
  • Author John Cage
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Wesleyan ed
  • Pages 91
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut
  • Date 2001-05-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780819564665 / 0819564664
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.65 x 6.41 x 0.62 in (24.51 x 16.28 x 1.57 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00066819
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • Publishers Weekly, 06/04/2001, Page 77

About the author

John Cage (1912 - 1992) was one of the seminal figures of the avant-garde in the U.S. A composer for whom the whole world -- with its brimming silences and anarchic harmonies -- was a source of music, Cage studied music with Adolph Weiss, Arnold Schoenberg, and others, later collaborating with such artists as Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Cage was the author of many books, including Silence, X, A Year from Monday, M, and Empty Words. The latter are all in print with Wesleyan, along with Joan Retallack's interviews with Cage, MUSICAGE: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music and a paperback edition of Cage's Norton lectures at Harvard, I-VI.
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