Brautigan noted that whilst ‘innocent’ in the 1940s, in 1979 a boy with a gun would mean a pile of bodies and the national guard called out, now pretty much a weekly occurrence in the … Read More
They want an apocalypse? Oh, we’ll give ’em one.
Internet Warriors is a very appropriate documentary in light of the Abridged Babel Submission Call. There is a sense of sadness and desperation about it. At the risk of sounding like one of those internet … Read More
Abridged at the Cuirt Festival, Galway
Usually active in the visual art environment, Abridged makes a rare appearance in the live poetry arena with a reading featuring critically acclaimed international poets Stephen Burt, Theresa Muñoz and Jacob Polley. This will coincide … Read More
Waiting for another War…
It’s International Women’s Day. It’s sad that one is required. But the world is increasingly rejecting reason and embracing something very reactionary. It’s more than just the patriarchy that has lasted centuries. Though there is … Read More
A Funny Old World…
We’re sometimes rather surprisingly accused of lacking a certain sense of humour or a sense of humour at all. In fact we’ve often been accused of being miserable b*****ds, Now admittedly the Abridged does have … Read More
The Tides of Time…
In the midst of an essay based upon an Anthrax outbreak from Compound 19, a military chemical factory in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk, now known as Ekaterinburg in 1979. Officially the explanation was that … Read More
Muddy Waters…
Interestingly enough as part of the Abridged 0 – 2: Damaged Collateral project (which also consisted of a magazine and exhibition) we produced a stage performance of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds. Appropriately at … Read More
‘Too Much Contact, No More Feeling: ‘Abridged 0 – 49: Babel Submission Call (Expanded).
The Abridged new submission call is now out. We gave it the theme Babel. For those unfamiliar with the legend it’s from biblical (and related) sources which recount the story of how humanity decided to … Read More
When the Wind Blows…
It’s funny reading past Abridged editorials and realising they were essentially about how human frailties and desires/ambitions will ultimately undermine any political/religious philosophy. Paradise could appear tomorrow and within 20 minutes the rot would start … Read More
NEVER BELIEVE
“Nothing in this article is anti-media, but I’ve used this headline a thousand times,” he says. “Violence and chaos and aggressive wording is what people are attracted to.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html?utm_term=.485f301febce) ‘You’ll NEVER BELIEVE what happened … Read More