RAD (aka Read and Destroy) was more than just a magazine
Can empathy deliver political change
joy and collective grief and the poetics of imagining otherwise
With commentary from Jon Savage
As he travels through libraries
The Farm at Black Mountain College - David Silver RAD (aka Read and Destroy)Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th century creative unorthodoxy. From its founding in 1933 and over its 23 year history, the small liberal arts school in rural North Carolina attracted a jaw dropping list of famous and soon to be famous artists, writers, and visionaries including Anni and Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ray Johnson, Charles Olson, and M. C. Richards. The