{"id":30444,"date":"2018-07-18T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=30444"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:54:45","slug":"loose-screws-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/07\/loose-screws-in-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Loose Screws in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>Mike Ferguson&#8217;s permutation poem makes a whole lot of sense. <br \/>It is also a reminder of the influence of Brion Gysin,<br \/> who set the template for permutation poems back in the 1960s.<\/center><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_30448\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/internationaltimes.it\/screws-loose\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30448\" data-attachment-id=\"30448\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/07\/loose-screws-in-politics.html\/mike-ferguson-1-420-border\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"420,564\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mike-Ferguson-1 (420) border\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;By Mike Ferguson&lt;br \/&gt;(from IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES, The Newspaper of Resistance) [July 18, 2018]&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border-223x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border.jpg\" alt title=\"By Mike Ferguson (from IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES, The Newspaper of Resistance) [July 18, 2018]\" width=\"420\" height=\"564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Mike Ferguson<br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/internationaltimes.it\/screws-loose\/\">from IT: INTERNATIONAL TIMES, <em>The Newspaper of Resistance<\/em><\/a>) [July 18, 2018]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_30450\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30450\" data-attachment-id=\"30450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/07\/loose-screws-in-politics.html\/brion-gysin-1-366x619-border\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"368,622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brion-Gysin-1 (366&amp;#215;619) border\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;By Brion Gysin&lt;br \/&gt;From BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN (page 51)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border-177x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border.jpg\" alt title=\"From BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN (page 51)\" width=\"368\" height=\"622\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-1-366x619-border-177x300.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Brion Gysin<br \/>From <em>BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN<\/em> (page 51)<br \/>Something Else Press  [1973]<\/p><\/div><div id=\"attachment_30449\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30449\" data-attachment-id=\"30449\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/07\/loose-screws-in-politics.html\/brion-gysin-2-364x619-border\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"362,619\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brion-Gysin-2 (364&amp;#215;619) border\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;By Brion Gysin&lt;br \/&gt;From BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN (page 53)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border-175x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border.jpg\" alt title=\"From BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN (page 53)\" width=\"362\" height=\"619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Brion-Gysin-2-364x619-border-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Brion Gysin<br \/>From <em>BRION GYSIN LET THE MICE IN<\/em> (page 53)<br \/>Something Else Press [1973]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><font size=2><em>Brion Gysin Let the Mice In<\/em> includes texts by Gysin, William S. Burroughs, and Ian Sommerville. It is an expensive collector&#8217;s item these days. The German publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molokoplusrecords.de\/index.html\">Moloko Plus<\/a> has offered to bring out a facsimile edition for interested readers at an affordable price.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ferguson&#8217;s permutation poem makes a whole lot of sense. It is also a reminder of the influence of Brion Gysin, who set the template for permutation poems back in the 1960s. Brion Gysin Let the Mice In includes texts by Gysin, William S. Burroughs, and Ian Sommerville. It is an expensive collector&#8217;s item these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,4,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-media","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mike-Ferguson-1-420-border.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7V2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30487,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30444\/revisions\/30487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}