Avant Gardening : Ecological Struggle in the City and the World

by Wilson, Peter Lamborn

• ISBN13: 9781570270925
• ISBN10: 1570270929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: A K Pr Distribution

Summary

Cultural Writing. Springtime in the New Millenium. They are buying and patenting the DNA of every lifeform. They will design your baby, and they will design the E-Coli in its colon. They will make the word organic mean what they want it to mean. They will use 100 times more energy than you because they know better. We can take our community gardens and move somewhere else if we don't like progress. Yeah, go somewhere where the sun of Global Capital don't shine. And stay there. Okay, then. This book is headed in that direction. Want to tag along? Edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Bill Weinberg, with texts by Miekal And, Bernadette Cozart, Jack Collom, Sarah Ferguson, Joe Hollis, Lyx Ish, Bernadette Mayer, Carmelo Ruiz, Bill Weinberg, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and John Wright.

Table of Contents

Avant Gardening	7	(35)
Peter Lamborn Wilson
The Greening of Harlem	35	(3)
Bernadette Cozart
¡Viva Loisaida Libre!	38	(19)
Bill Weinberg
The Garden	57	(3)
Bernadette Mayer
The Death of Little Puerto Rico	60	(20)
Sarah Ferguson
A Brief History of Grassroots Greening on the Lower East Side	80	(11)
Sarah Ferguson
Winner and Losers in the Biotechnology Revolution	91	(26)
Carmelo Ruiz
Peeing on a Lilypad (and other musings on gardens and art)	117	(10)
Lyx Ish
Clearcutting the East Village	127	(5)
John Wright
Hyper Wilderness/Hyper Culture	132	(10)
Miekal And
A Few Crumbs from the Houston Street Median Stripe Naturewalk	142	(15)
Jack Collom
Paradise Gardening	157	(9)
Joe Hollis
Notes on Contributors and Resource List	166