ISSUE 25 | FEB 2013
CONSERVATISM AND REACTION
Ida-Verné Stanfield
A Lullaby
why wake - broken yet still breakable - a soporific not-you - the cause of my current sleep - hope is a loudness - this prison is meant to restrain the sadism - if I were wise
Matthew Goldin
Telling It Like It Is: Laughter, Idiocy, and Art
« That was uncalled for! » - the rape joke - Truth in Comedy - the cult of sincerity - rendering the mainstream obsolete - « something mechanical encrusted on the living » - unwitting dukes - a form meant only for sleepy appreciation
Nicholas Hiromura
Consummate Damnation: Lampedusa’s “The Leopard”
rising and falling - anything to conserve - obsessed with the idea of doing - doing nothing the ideal state - this sublime defeatedness - Sicily’s absolute sloth - « our voluptuous frozenness: all of them do » - nothing more than being - « because we are gods » - « the irreparable is that things are »
Michael Kinnucan
What Politics Can Steal From Ethics
a job is one’s place in the world - wait until we find the right particularity - Christ’s demand - not so much the quantity of love - the general class « mankind » - fate must be transformed into freedom - that all or most people be employed in a single task for most of the waking hours of their adult lives - the depression of activists
Ryan Wong
“My Dad Said I Sounded Like a Slant-Eyed Malcolm X”
« something so stupid as skin or eyes » - floods his neighbors’ house - third-degree murder - celebrity chef - oppositional, street, radical, hip-hop - « I wanted to be white so fucking bad. » - ugly and glamorous, upsetting and justified - out to get paid and make a name - Asiangate - Taiwanese baos
Michael Kinnucan
Afterthought on “Love Potions”
Sadie Lansdale
Afterthought on “Taste and Swallow”