-- "Poetry should be made by all. Not by one." Lautréamont, Poems … Continue reading Stratum 12
Category: Dis-Junction
A plea for Black radical intellectual autonomy
-- ∞ "A Plea for Black Radical Intellectual Autonomy" (pdf) - Norman Ajari (2022) Abstract: From the end of the 2010 decade, academic discourse on race faced a major political and mediatic backlash in the Western world. In countries with a major history of slavery or colonial expansion such as France, the United States and … Continue reading A plea for Black radical intellectual autonomy
ON THE FAILED CHILEAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
-- ∞ "Reflections on the Failed Chilean Constitutional Convention" - Max Woods, October 2022 Chile has rejected a proposed constitution that reflected the demands of anti-neoliberal, feminist, decolonial, and environmentalist social movements of the past decades. Where do we go from here? Maxwell Woods is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in … Continue reading ON THE FAILED CHILEAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Stratum 11
-- "To cohabit the earth is prior to any possible community or nation or neighborhood. We might sometimes choose where to live, and who to live by or with, but we cannot choose with whom to cohabit the earth." Judith Butler, Parting Ways THEORY/FICTION: Amanda Boetzkes, "The Cure for Assimilation: Ethics as De-sublimation" Joshua Schuster, … Continue reading Stratum 11
The Afterlives of Non-Alignment
--- "The Afterlives of Non-Alignment - Paul Stubbs in conversation with Srećko Pulig" (2022) Paul Stubbs is a sociologist based in Zagreb, Croatia. His edited book Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: social, cultural, political and economic imaginaries will be published later in 2022 by McGill-Queen’s University Press. SP: In today's world, and particularly in … Continue reading The Afterlives of Non-Alignment
Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
-- ∞ "Post-Socialist Wars and the Masculinist Backlash" (pdf) - Rada Iveković, 2022 Rada Iveković is a researcher of the Indian pluriverse and of philosophy, and a writer. She works and lives in Paris, but she attended school in Belgrade, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, received her doctorate from the University of Delhi, … Continue reading Post-socialist wars and the masculinist backlash
The Space Offshore
--- ∞ "The Space Offshore" (pdf) - RYBN.ORG, 2022 Originally published in "The Great Offshore. Art, argent, gouvernance, souveraineté, colonialisme." UV Éditions, Villecomtal-sur-Arros, May 2021 - http://uveditions.com/ Translated by Arby Gharibian.
Stratum 10
--- "Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void/ It is shining." - The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows --- THEORY/FICTION: David Wills, "States of Slate" Emery Jenson, "Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan" Carlos A. Segovia, "I m p r o m p t u: The Alien – Heraclitus’s Cut" Sophie … Continue reading Stratum 10
Hermeneucracy: Short Interview on Internationalism and Interpretation
--- ∞ "Hermeneucracy: Short Interview on Internationalism and Interpretation" (pdf) - Jean-Luc Nancy, 2021 Translation: Ciarán Coyle. First published in Lignes n°61 (February, 2020) Ciarán is a doctoral student at Fordham University studying regimes of labor, socially mediating practice, and logics of domination. --- ---
The Children of Line 3
--- In his most recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, cli-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson imagines the moment - in 2025 - when a devastating heat wave strikes the Earth, killing 20 million people in India. Among many things that arise from this all-too imaginable disaster is a social movement, The Children of Kali, … Continue reading The Children of Line 3