The book is largely a montage of unheard “voices,” beginning with the opening section, “Death in Texas,” that provides us with the last words of sixteen death-row inmates.
Both alarming and playful, Revolutionary Brain is an accessible read that offers neither authoritative explanations nor easy resolutions to today’s problems of digital overload instead, the book, by its own example, attempts to illustrate how art and activism can shock us out of complacency.Īs with Jaffe’s previous books, Revolutionary Brain frequently interrogates a culture that both censures and consumes extreme violence. Jaffe has long been known for eliding genres and disrupting found texts in order to subvert mainstream viewpoints. Innovator of “docufiction” (the meshing of documentary and fiction), Harold Jaffe has released another strange text that bears witness to contemporary political crises and the sorts of “officially” propagandized ideologies complicit with wars, oppression, neocolonialism, and profit-mania. Revolutionary Brain: Essays and Quasi-Essays, by Harold Jaffe.
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