If there is any form that this strange yet beautiful book nods to more than any other, it is the diary, and death is everywhere in its pages.
glo: Lauri Stallings and Mary Virginia Coleman
glo has this great persistence to it. I would probably be put on fire if I ask any less of myself, the world, human nature, the human condition — no one would hang around.
The cutting of humanities programs in favor of business and STEM degrees is backed not by the pure arithmetic of budgetary restraints but by entrenched and quixotic neoliberal ideology.
Knausgaard could have Instagrammed his father’s empties. Didion could have live-tweeted her late-night ambulance ride. Instead they wrote. Why do we write grief?
The Future – Marc Augé / Heroes – Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
Neither Augé nor Bifo wants the future to be a dodge, and nor should we.
Saint Pop: Martyrdom and the Cult of Celebrity
A new development in the cult of celebrity celebrates an artist’s work on the basis of personal tragedy, not the work itself.
The Outer Harbour – Wayde Compton
Without the rubric of race and ethnicity applied, she is unclassifiable, and therefore both powerful and vulnerable.
The rhythms of cognition interest me as much as any object or series of objects in space; the latter doesn’t exist without the former, and that interplay is where so much of the poetry happens for me.
As we became more comfortable locking people away in prisons, we also became more comfortable making the everyday environment inhabited by the general public into a private, confining space.
The Full Stop Quarterly Is Now For Sale
Full Stop is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital publication focusing on the unknown, the precarious, and the as-yet unrealized.