I contend that Manos, while complaining about the lack of politics in Turl’s work, has written a very apolitical review, predicated upon an intellectual campism rooted in what China Miéville calls “folk Marxism,” received beliefs, rather than dialectical reason. Manos’s view of the politics of art seems entirely functionalist.
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MARK MILLER is the author of The Librarian at the End of the World (Montag Press, 2019). Adam Turl interviewed Mark Miller for Locust Review in early 2020.
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What seemed like a winged space-alien to Mr. Feature-214, or an angel of God to the Person brothers, appeared to the three men. It did not speak — and disappeared within moments —but the three men all “heard” the same message. They were to go into the world and collect the records of all the lost performances of the enslaved, exploited, and oppressed; including all the hidden dreams and nightmares.
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Billy is in business school. “I’m going to be rich,” Billy says. “My dad was a janitor. Mom answered phones. I’m not gonna be a sucka. I’ll live in a mansion, own a hover car…” Suddenly! “U R Wrong Billy!” (says the Angel of History).
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