An Untouched House – Willem Frederik Hermans
The square book fits easily into a jacket pocket, but the ninety-nine pages of narrative are so explosive as to make one feel like you’re smuggling a weapon.
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.
It is all so recent, so almost-up-to-date.
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.
A Marxist Education – Wayne Au
The overdetermination of education as a moral endeavor is rife both within the profession and in public and political discourse.
If a governess frolics and there is no elderly gentleman to witness it . . . ?