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ARCHAEOLOGY
IMPULSE
Eldon Garnet
University of Toronto Press
Toronto Buffalo London
© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2005
Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in Canada
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Printed on acid-free paper
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Garnet, Eldon, 1946-
Impulse Archaeology / Eldon Garnet.
ISBN 0-8020-8787-6
1. Arts, Canadian.
2. Arts, Canadian - 20th century. I. Title.
NX1.I46G37 2005 700'.971 C2004-907189-0
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Particular articles have been reproduced with special permission and hold complete copyright:
©William Burroughs / Estate of William Burroughs / James W. Grauerholz
©Angela Carter, 1974 / Estate of Angela Carter / Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.
©Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
©Hans Haacke / VG - Bildkunst, Bonn, Germany
©Jenny Holzer / ARS (New York) / SODRAC (Montreal) 2003
©General Idea / AA Bronson
©Gerard Malanga
©Patrick Mata
©James Wines / SITE, 1979
Andrew James Paterson’s ‘Men Who Don’t Drive’ was also published in Trans Mission5, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 14-15.
‘Diary of a Masochist’ is part of Lynne Tillman’s short fiction collection, Absence Makes the Heart, London: Serpent’s Tail, 1990.
Every effort has been made to secure the required permission to reproduce copyright material in this publication.
Any omissions brought to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in subsequent printings.
ARCHAEOLOGY
IMPULSE
Editor: Eldon Garnet
Managing Editor: Janet Bellotto
Art Direction: Carolyn White
Editorial Assistants:
Mark Cirillo, Fumino Enokido, Denise Frimer, Sarah Kasupsi, Cherie O’Connor,
Andrew James Paterson, Vanessa Robinson
Design Assistants:
John Del Guercio, Tiffany Ferguson, Josh Remazki, Jeff Simpson
Design Technicians:
Dino Di Maria, Marilia Ferreira, Tania Henriques, Tiff Izsa, Jamie McAmmond,
Shelbie Vermette, Milan White-Garnet
Image Research:
Dustin Garnet
With thanks to:
Marc Glassman, Anne Dondetman, and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
(cid:2) Cover Photo: Eldon Garnet Art Direction: Carolyn White
Assistants: Janet Bellotto + Darren Cerkownyk Model: Zoe
contents
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14 Impulse: A Personal Peregrination
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IMPULSE ARCHAEOLOGY
Patti Hearst 17 Canadian Press Eldon Garnet 141 I Shot Mussolini
Patti Smith 18 Drawings Brian Weil 144 Miami Police Force
Michael Snow 20 Larry Dubin’s Music Alexander Wilson 148 The Managed Landscape
Lola Michael 22 Blondie: A Toronto Conversation Dot Tuer 152 The Site of an Imaginary History
James Wines 24 Site David Burgess 155 The Orillia Opera
Eldon Garnet 28 Andy Warhol Interview Liliana Heker 160 Jocasta
Chris Burden 29 The Curse of Big Job Jeanne Randolph 163 Small Diary of Suppression
Rodney Werden 32 Baby Dolls Jenny Holzer 166 Bodies Lie In ...
Tom Sherman +Robin Collyer 34 Once Living in a Healthy State of Paranoia Eldon Garnet 167 Tony Schwartz: Electronic Persuasion
Shelagh Alexander 37 Mr. Leather Jenny Holzer 171 Let Your Hand ...
P.L.Noble 38 DEVO Interview Komar+Melamid 172 Thank You Comrade Stalin for Our Happy Childhood
Michael Kieran 40 Buckminster Fuller Interview Astrid Klein 174 Funktionsumfahig
John Brown 44 Rich People Chris Dercon 175 Speed-Space: Paul Virilio Interview
Krzystof Wodiczko 45 Vehicles Albert Russo 180 Tunisian Fever
Willoughby Sharp 49 Zero Time Data Hideout: Alain Robbe-Grillet Interview David Greenberger 183 The Duplex Planet
Philip Monk 53 Violence and Representation Brian Boigon 184 Shopping for the Real
Patrick Mata +Cece Cole 55 Nina Hagen Interview Andrew James Paterson 186 Men Who Don't Drive
Tom Dean 58 Ramps Andrea Ward 188 Fredric Jameson Interview
Donna Lypchuk 62 Rebel Without a Car Nicole Brossard 190 Certain Words
Chris Dewdney 65 Case A-7 Arthur+Marilouise Kroker 191 Panic God
Matt Cohen 66 In Search of Inspiration Angela Carter 192 The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter
Gerard Malanga 70 Shark Bait Donna Lypchuk 195 John Waters Interview
Lorne Fromer 71 Russ Meyer Interview Christian Boltanski 198 Three Months of Distance
FredGaysek+AndrewJamesPaterson 74 KRAFTWERK Interview Marguerite Duras 200 The Slut of the Normandy Coast
Judith Doyle 79 Transcript J.G.Ballard 203 ImpulseInterview
Eduardo Galeano 82 Of Virgins and Saints Geoff Pevere 204 Conventional Warfare
Lisa Baumgardner 85 Diary Excerpt Sylvère Lotringer 206 I Talked about God with Antonin Artaud
Lynne Tillman 86 Diary of a Masochist Michel Foucault 209 Radio Interview
Eldon Garnet +James Dunn 89 David Cronenberg Interview William Burroughs 213 Blade Runner
James Wines 94 Fear of the Albany Mall Doug Walker 220 William Gibson Interview
John Bentley Mays 96 The Victim's Ball Leon Golub 224 Coexistence?
Sylvère Lotringer 99 The New Alliance Simon Watney 228 Laocoon
David Lake 103 John Kenneth Galbraith Interview Carolyn White 233 safe
Terence Sellers 106 Correct Sadist Ron Geyshick 235 Cannibal Woman
Jean Baudrillard 109 Nuclear Implosion Robert Flack 237 Vanitas Wheel
Roger Peyrefitte 114 Excerpts from the Memoirs of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden Roger Caillois 239 Mimetism and Psychasthenia
Joel-Peter Witkin 118 Photographs Joyce Wieland 242 The Black Dog
Hans Haacke 121 Voici Alcan David Nash 244 Ash Dome
Maurice Blanchot 124 The Right Time Francis Ponge 246 Of Natural Crystals
Sylvère Lotringer 127 Framing Death: Fadi Mitri Interview Susan Speigel 248 HA! HA!
General Idea 130 Self Portrait Christopher Webber 250 Northrop Frye Interview
Nancy Burson 131 WARHEADS 3rd Nuclear Powers Composite Tom Dean 254 Hell
Nancy Johnson 132 I Saw on tv ... William Burroughs 256 Tiger Terry
Kathy Acker 134 Scenes of World War III Eldon Garnet 258 William Burroughs Interview
Jean Baudrillard 138 The Child in the Bubble Louise Lawler 264 Enough
Pierre Guyota 140 Coma ImpulseIndex 265
ARCHAEOLOGY
IMPULSE
Description:Impulse was the premier Canadian art and culture magazine of the 1970s and 80s, a visual and conceptual cornerstone in magazine publishing. During its run, Impulse featured the writings and thought of some of the world's most influential and provocative minds, including Jean Baudrillard, William S.
