It’s hard to have the trap attitude when I’m in the plaza exercising with the old ladies and their dogs.
All in all, I’m a sort of literary smuggler. I try to smuggle forgotten, less known literary values to “Western audiences.” Do you know what premastication, or pre-chewing, or kiss feeding is? That’s what I did in Fox.
Full Stop Quarterly: Winter 2021
There’s a language between the languages, where a translation lives. This other place is where Full Stop ventures in this quarterly issue.
As we look to philosophers, our sense of failure only grows in intensity.
The Gaddis I like best to think of is a God-haunted aristocrat. Thrown pearl-clutching into a fallen world, he gathers himself and understands it as his task to recognize what instances of the eternal still obtain, among things melted into air.
An Arc of Light Across the Cold War Sky
What began in 1947 as a largely hopeful movement defined by wonder, openness, and concern for mankind, plunged into the paranoia-fueled mire that skeptics had always assumed the UFO movement to be.
Paranoia as Resistance in Gloria Naylor’s 1996
Fake news, mass surveillance, and global pandemic aren’t mere tropes to explore the life of the mind. They are our everyday lives.
Only now, fifty years after the formal end of the Brutalist movement, does it appear in the timeline of world architecture not so much as a steppingstone but as a stumbling block.
Rollerball and Death Race 2000 may have been early entrants into diagnosing that dreadful feeling that accompanies the unbeatable supremacy of capitalism.
Imagining the mass strike and practically organizing it are one and the same activity.