





My high school classmate, Richard Lachmann, at Verso Books on Feb 12th, expounding on his new book, First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship, a sweeping analysis of imperialism and hegemony in the capitalist age and the inexorable decline of American hegemony as our oligarchs extract what they can. I love the infinite regress of the screen behind them showing itself. Is this a metaphor for something?

Jamel Shabazz is a tremendous documentary street-photographer, particularly of the black experience in America over the last several decades. His is the kind of work I aspire to. Charlie Ahearn made a tremendous film about his life and work and they both talked about it at the Schomburg Library last Monday, Shabazz with incredible passion and intensity.
