Anarchy: New York City-January 1998

by John Cage

Book Overview

"That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819564664
• ISBN13: 9780819564665
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.7"