It Is Happening (Again)

There’s art and there’s empire. Empire is power over. Art is power with.

That’s my thesis. Also, the apocalypse is every day. Let’s make the most of it.

Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the World marks the third time I’ve repented over and replaced an old book with a new one. There’s backstory (and a promo code) available here.

I’m going to book tour a little, and I want to tell you about that, but first, here’s the Table of Contents:

On spinning metal racks located in gas stations, I once accessed comic books written by Alan Moore. They were fire for me. The gas station was a delivery system. Fire finds a way. I’m serious. Fire finds a way.

Those chapter titles are fire finding a way in and through me. I try to be conduit of the fire that’s reaching me. “Describing one’s experience of art is itself a form of art.” That’s Stanley Cavell. I believe he’s right. I’m gonna keep arting things up to the best of my ability.

I’m also gonna do some traveling. Details await ironing out here and there. But I have a few dates and places I can share now.

October 15th, Glasgow, Scotland. That’s 5PM at the University of Glasgow. I’ll share the venue when I have it. Lecture title? “Art & Empire: Counterliturgical Dispatches from the United States of America.”

October 19th, Southern Festival of Books, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

I like that part about honest self-assessment.

October 27, Union Avenue Books, Knoxville

November 13, Pendleton Bookshop, South Carolina

So…I welcome any and all boosting of my signal and invitations to speak and chat and dialogue and preach. By that, I don’t mean you telling me I should come somewhere sometime. I mean invite me somewhere in particular or advise (or bug) someone else to. Do you know a bookstore where I’d be a good fit? Wonderful. Inquire and put me in touch with them. Please.

Want me interviewed or reviewed or attacked by someone? Trouble the waters. Tell them about me. Tag me. Take a picture of the book (or passages from the book) and post them. Say, that reminds me….

That right there is a screen grab from Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious: Reframed and Expanded. I don’t know who made it, but I thank God for them. It has not (yet) sparked a crazy amount of coverage of little old me or a whole bunch of book sales, but…fire finds a way.

Help it along if you want to. Don’t be shy. Everything matters.

Thanks for hanging in here with me, everyone.