Quiet Riot

On Saturday, September 22, volunteers from non-profit humanitarian group No Mas Muertes (or No More Deaths) will host their third annual silent art auction to benefit the group's efforts in the Arizona desert.

The mission of the organization, which was founded in 2004, is to "end death and suffering on the U.S./Mexico border through civil initiative" and to "work openly and in community to uphold fundamental human rights." The group maintains a year-round camp in Arivaca, offers medical assistance to those stranded, and hikes regularly through the desert to drop water supplies in areas where migrants cross the border.

This year locally made art, jewelry, and crafts will be up for grabs through silent auction. The work will be on view from 6 to 8 p.m., and the auctionthis singular architectural monstrosity [the Palace of Justice in Brussels], on which Austerlitz was planning to write a study at the time, began in the 1880s at the urging of the bourgeosie of Brussels, over-hastily and before the details of the grandiose scheme submitted by a certain Joseph Poelaert had been properly worked out, as a result of which, said Austerlitz, this huge pile of over seven hundred thousand cubic metres contains corridors and stairways leading nowhere, and doorless rooms and halls where no-one would ever set foot, empty spaces surrounded by walls and representing the innermost secret of all sanctioned authority.'

House of Leaves was mentioned in a comment on the original Trap Room post, but it resonates even more with the story of Judge Schreber. Mark Danielewski's