All violence, all desecration against the commons begins with a perception of weakness in the other. In this case HItchbot and and his keepers were other.
Unselfconsciousness is covetable. We admire it in babies and seek to recover it as adults. But blackness is incompatible with unselfconsciousness. Blackness is a tracking device.
Infinite Home – Kathleen Alcott
In the city, there is no dearth of lonely and broken people; Alcott’s skill lies in fitting these fragments together.
I thought it was an interesting idea to explore, that the decision that saves someone could, first of all, be based on a misinterpretation of a sacred text, and then, second, could be a less complex worldview.
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
There’s a largeness to these characters. They are so suffused with life, with pain, pleasure, intelligence and ambition, that they occasionally feel unreal.
Iowa, The Middle of Nothingness
I even wonder if, among white people, the vague myth of Iowa as representative isn’t a national delusion.
Counternarratives – John Keene
The title Counternarratives can be understood as describing the way these stories actively push back against instituted narratives, forcing fictional flights of the imagination in order to pin down and ascertain certain truths that have been effectively lost.
For a brief moment in the cemetery, I wished it wasn’t my inheritance. That this wasn’t my story.
What It Takes To Be Violent: An Appreciation of Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales
Text bears violence, accompanies violence, and flies off of it, in every direction.
The End of the Jurassic World Is Nigh
What does it mean when a cultural text is positioning itself as a ravenous chimera, as something that needs to be destroyed?