What would Carl Jung say about the current state of political discourse in America? The Rabbit’s been rereading the founder of analytical psychology’s The Undiscovered Self in preparation for Liber Novus, a “new” book which records Jung’s middle age conflict or, in pop-psychology parlance, mid-life crisis. Undiscovered is one of Jung’s most…

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The publicity around the recent death of TV pitchman Billy Mays reminded us of the popularity of the infomercial culture. The rumors that cocaine was involved in May’s death are easily believed in a profession where hyperactivity is a plus. Sure, lots of celebrities have shilled for various products of…

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There’s a strong temptation to turn descriptions of Arve Henriksen’s Cartography into a litany of map and topography images. They’d be apt. But this strange, haunting collection of aural effects and audible vision quests is more about the journey than its path. A mélange of synthesized sounds, samples, organic percussion, spoken word…

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I have with me/all that I do not know/I have lost none of it

W.S Merwin “The Nomad Flute” from The Shadow of Sirius

Sometime in the mid 1960s, W. S. Merwin completely lost faith in punctuation and came to believe in his readers. The transformation didn’t happen all at once. The…

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Environmental jobs “czar” Van Jones is gone, a victim of opposition labeling and his progressive beliefs. We admired Jones’ thesis that establishing green jobs was a great way to advance social equality (see our review of The Green Collar Economy, published last September in the Inland Empire Weekly below…note the…

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