Duncan’s Open Form and Cagean Intermedia: The Practice of “Theatre” After Black Mountain by Edward Alexander

“…While the Fluxus and Happenings movements that emerged from Cage’s New School course rejected many premises Duncan retained as a “derivative poet” both the west and east coast variants of the post-Black Mountain vanguard were working through problems traceable to the institution’s final phase under Olson’s rectorship in 1952-53. …”
Get full text

Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…The strains of Y. pestis currently found in East and Central Africa derive from one of the lineages involved in late medieval outbreaks in Central Eurasia. This post-Black Death strain, it is argued here, entered the continent most likely in the late 15th or early 16th century. …”
Get full text