As technology continues to reshape our relationships to the world and others, the fight to protect the human species must begin with a social and historical understanding of what it means to be human.
Summer Cannibals – Melanie Hobson
SUMMER CANNIBALS, Melanie Hobson’s addition to the canon of Country Manors In Sharp Decline, proposes another reason for the downfall of polite society: the patriarchy itself.
Father’s on the Phone with the Flies – Herta Müller
In Müller’s work, emigration is often accompanied by violence, physical, emotional or intellectual. Texts and language reflect this violence.
The Animatic Apparatus – Deborah Levitt
Perhaps one could narrate the movement from a cinematic to an animatic paradigm as an empowering rather than paranoid trajectory; as a movement from passively seeing with one’s eyes to actively producing bodies and ideas.
Destruction of Man – Abraham Smith
DESTRUCTION OF MAN is among other things a savage, tender bestiary, a teeming universe in which the human figures as only one among countless symbiotic vital actors.
Confounding Reading: Notes from a Conversation
I like the fact that you can see error moments that have been used to do something and, also, that there are other latent, inelegant bits that could be resolved differently. I like having both—utilised errors and potentially resolvable parts that nonetheless remain uncoopted.
It is all so recent, so almost-up-to-date.
“The daydream emerged as such an unbidden gift.”
From “The Inelegant Translation”
My voice doesn’t sound like my voice to him.
Love in the Chthulucene, and in the shattered landscapes that this era presents, is forever incomplete and unsatisfied. It occurs in a shifting landscape, through the fissures of which previously buried uncertainties are constantly arising.