Impulse – Volume 15 Number 3, 1989 (The Equilibrium of Melting Ice)

The aspiration toward equilibrium and that toward desquilibrium constantly oppose each other. Culture progresses in the measure that we feel the oppression of the tragic -- an oppression caused by the unequivalence of these two polarities in human life.
In nature, a complete deliverance from tragic feeling is not possible. In life, where the physical form is not only necessary but of the greatest importance, equilibrium will always be very relative. But man evolving toward the equilibrium of his duality, will create in ever greater degree, in life as in art, equivalent relationship and therefore equilibrium.
Material life will not be forever menaced and made tragic.

- After PIET MONDRIAN.


Editors: Eldon Garnet, Brian Boigon, Judith Doyle, Donna Lypchuk, and Carolyn White

Contributing Editors: Sylvère Lotringer, Alberto Manguel and Jeanne Randolph

Art Director: Carolyn White

Table of Contents: Roger Caillois, ‘Mimetism and Psychasthenia’; Robert Flack, ‘Vanitas Wheel’; Peter Day, ‘Tools Of The Trade’; Drawings by David Nash; Daniel David Moses, ‘The Dreaming Beauty’; Sharon Cook, ‘Classified Birds’; Alexander Wilson, ‘Tourism and Public Landscape’; Joyce Weiland, ‘Drawings and Fiction’; Michael Stadtlander interview by Judith Doyle and Gerald Owen; Sylvère Lotringer, ‘Hyper Rebel’; Francis Ponge, ‘Of Natural Crystals’; Susan Speigel, ‘Ha! Ha!’; Gary Michael Dault, ‘The Furniture of the 2nd Modernity’; Northrop Frye Interview by Christopher Webber and Stuart Inglis

Condition note: the cover might be in worn conditions due to its long-term storage