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Issue Ten.

Pearls

  • ~ Potpourri: Malta

    ~ Potpourri: Malta

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    He tried to live as if none of it had ever happened, but some stories don’t let you go.

  • Current Preoccupations, week 40

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    Last week, I found myself waiting in a long line of twenty-something-year-olds in fancy dress, Goths in black leather and chains, trans waifs in white pancake makeup and platform wedgies. The line snaked around a block by London’s St. James Palace; the evening was warm, and the mood convivial. It was opening night: we were…

  • Current Preoccupations, week 39

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    Any fool can see that the head of state is naked, that he is a complete phony — except for himself. Such appears to be the premise of The Emperor’s Clothes, a fairy tale I see referred to more and more. Apparently, Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 parable is awfully relevant today. Reading yet another reference…

  • Texting with … Lilia Topouzova

    Texting with … Lilia Topouzova

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    I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.

  • Current Preoccupations, week 38

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    Last Saturday I saw a play called « Mother Has Arrived ». It was written and directed by Than Hussein Clark, an American artist based in Glasgow and Genoa. His project was half of a larger installation called « Anal Peace » that is being shown at Corvi-Mora, an art-gallery in South London. Clark’s half…

  • Current Preoccupations, week 37

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    The elderly gentleman seemed at first sight to be having some kind of seizure. He was lying on the ground, his body shaking convulsively. Young men and women in yellow hi-vis jackets, whom I took to be paramedics, were bent over, questioning him. Then they picked him up by his arms and legs and head…

  • Babushka Z Cosplay

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    A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.

  • Child Kings

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    « Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

  • Of trotting horses & angelic words

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    I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.

  • Texting with … Ece Temelkuran (2)

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    « We are not aware of how defeated we are as intellectuals. »

  • Honorable men sowed this war

    Honorable men sowed this war

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    Six poems

  • So, kill him [at Aulide]

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    here he is        in his bed, so scared                 he can’t move