SEPTEMBER THE ELEVENTH -TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN

REVIEWS

Katie Murken's Continua
By NICOLE WILSON
"It is like cutting off all your hair.  The root is still there. "

Mobile Device at Bodega
By MATT KALASKY
"The awkwardness is palpable as the works within interact on the level of teenage Roombas.  Softly, blindly, silently bumping, rubbing, grinding. "

Yoshua Okón’s Rhinoplasty at Fourth Wall
By J. MAKARY
"Sliding a CD into the car’s player, he takes off on a day-in-the-life journey, snorting cocaine, sipping Modelo, and picking up his friends for an afternoon of drive-by harassment. ”"



THE CENTERFOLD


ESSAYS

Modern Vedic Science:
A Modern Humanist Movement:
By MIKE MULLIN

"We began by discussing Brian’s early introduction to Transcendental Meditation."




PHOTO: Emily Davidson

"A shitty stupid free card-thing that everyone has thrown in the trash a million times, retrieved from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. On display now at the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology’s Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11. "


A
rcheology: the scientific study of material remains of past human life and activities and emotions and spaces and stories and bodies and gravity and tonal rhythms and cosmic physic fossils. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

We do not need or desire souvenirs of events that are repeatable. Rather we need and desire souvenirs of events that are reportable, events whose materiality has escaped us, events that thereby exist only through the invention of narrative. (From “On Longing,” by Susan Stewart, 1993)

-Matt Kalasky
 Editor in Chief
 THE NICOLA MIDNIGHT ST.CLAIRE
  09.11.2011