Ōsaki recognizes our fundamental freedom—a freedom that becomes apparent once we accept that we are little more than noisy animals.
I felt a kindred experience in Isabel Allende while writing here in the United States but thinking about Venezuela and dealing with all these feelings about being apart from it . . . guilt, love, nostalgia for my home country that I knew I probably was never going to live in again.
Dionysos Speed – Rainer J. Hanshe
In order to make the horror of it all a part of lived experience, Hanshe . . . does not use logic, rhetoric, or story . . . instead, he lets the run-on lines speak about the non-stopness of notifications that surround us.
Glorious People – Sasha Salzmann
History, even personal history, is tidal. Whether we know or don’t know our own histories, we repeat them. Feelings, relationships, and identities recede and advance across generations. There are tragedies, too, and world-historical moments that repeat with numb predictability.
For all its bleak imagery, ATLANTIS is also a poem of beauty and redemption.
In history there are clear patterns that we actively choose to look away from, rather than engage. Our relationship with technology is one. [It has] a particular rhythm: one step forward, one step back. A help. A harm.
What isn’t to be feared in carrying a child and caring for a newborn, when every action has a potential harm? What isn’t to be feared when a newborn child so upends a woman’s very definition of self?
Search Histories – Caitlin Farrugia
SEARCH HISTORIES . . . uses the form of Google searches to explore the contours of the human experience.
If there is something quintessentially modern it’s the idea that we are the authors of our own minds, the authors of our own reality. And what we create . . . is exciting precisely because it springs out of us and does not conform to something that is already there. The idea of novelty is a novelty.
then telling be the antidote – Xiao Yue Shan
Xiao Yue Shan looks at once backwards and forwards, superimposing past, present, and future to imagine the speculative possibilities of the future, and the fragile malleability of the past.