Making History

In the early seventies, when the fervor of participatory democracy had not yet subsided on the public scene, the KRAKEN group-in relatively hermetic residence at Oberlin College-was starting on a project which was, as we came to see, a selfbaffling prospect of collective process. The subject was historical but felt more like a premonition. So far as history goes, it was a sort of double-jointed perspective, long distance and close up. In that rabid period of born-again politics and body consciousness, we found ourselves in the heartland of America, thinking about the problem of survival. The problem was immediate, but no matter what we thought, there was something about our thinking that made it nothing but premonition-which happens to be the structure of our work. Whatever the ostensible subject, it is at the edge of an apprehension

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