Mahua Modernist Poetry as a Translational Practice
Sometimes condemned as an “ethnic literature” of a minority ethnic group not properly integrated into a “national culture,” Mahua literature faces constant questions of self-definition and autonomy.
Oakland, poetry, and radical empathy.
I think loneliness is a beautiful emotion, it respects your inner desires, and one should be thankful to have those.
On reading and writing books in two centuries.
Consumption of Culture as Politics
In Mexico, state-sponsored films allow symbolic critique to supplant structural change.
A typology of the beggar in Western culture.
The contradictions of nostalgic crafting.
The God of Things as They Aren’t
The grotesque humor of Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s photography.
We sold ten-dollar juice to people who say, “fuck the rules” while, simultaneously, making the rules.
1984 is a utopia, and Trump is not Big Brother
The Britain of 1984 is a socialist enclave, doing what it can to feed and care for its citizens though it is reeling from atomic war, surrounded by rogue states and beset by an extremist insurgency.