Impulse – Volume 10 Number 1, Summer 1982

Publisher:
Eldon Garnet.

Editors:
Eldon Garnet, James Dunn and Judith Doyle.

Contributing Editor:
Lisa Baumgardner (New York).

Editorial Assistants:
Joan (Adair) Brouwer, Ken Baird and Robbyn Grant.

Art Direction:
Ken Baird.

Office:
Joan (Adair) Brouwer.

Advertising:
Robbyn Grant.

Typography:
Alphabets.

Mascot Designate:
Severin.

Table of Contents:
Stanley McDowell, ‘Nuclear Strategy/Political Will’; Elspeth Sage and Joan (Adair) Brouwer, ‘The Model Worker’; Brother Martin Shea/Judith Doyle, ‘Appropriation of Suffering’; Paul Virilio/Sylvère Lotringer, ‘The Suicidal State’; John Bentley Mays, ‘The Victims’ Ball’; Andrew Czeszak, ‘TBDF: Transborder Data Flow’; Todd Grimson, ‘Amnesia’; Lisa Bloomfield, ‘False Sites and Complexes’; Robert Cumming, ‘Drawings’; Eldon Garnet, ‘Privacy’; Ken Baird and Joan (Adair) Brouwer, ‘D. A. F.’; James Dunn, ‘The Death of Canadian Cinema’; Anne Milne, ‘Insomniac: An Interview with Jeff Silverman’.

Editorial:

There is a hail of events under which every person stands unsheltered, unable to command the storm’s withdrawal. What minor protections we construct are ephemeral shacks against the constant onslaught. I have no pacifist’s dream of an end to hostility. Dreams must be made by muscle. Action must be answered by better action. Deconstruction by construction. When the enemy attacks you must induce him to turn the weapon against himself. All the power which stands against you is your potential power. You stand as the transformer, where power against weakness becomes power against power; where power becomes a relinquishing, becomes weakness, becomes weakness against weakness, becomes agreed. Running for cover is no solution. Safety can only be achieved by turning the storm back on itself.

Eldon Garnet