ISSUE 41 | JUN 2014

INFAMY

He preferred to be called Joseph - « the only thing I ever heard about him was that he described himself as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body » - she knew him well enough to get in a car with him - « I AM NOT WRITING AN ARTICLE BASHING SKETCHY JOE » - I can’t locate my own desire among the forces

Michael Kinnucan

Consent of the Governed: on Masochism as Inquiry

certain feminists who imagine that those who enjoy BDSM porn are rapists in training - the will to be dominated, the will to humiliation - marriage is a contract in which each party appears twice - the sadomasochistic scene dramatizes the becoming-thingly of the human - she does not even sign it

Élan Reisner

Moonshiner

the obscurity of the night and putative cause of the vagaries of women - the chance of immunization carries a risk of overdose - future readers will experience in his homesickness an illumination - the moonlight reveals in an exaggerated fashion the workings of Marx’s commodity fetishism

Avi Garelick

The Uses and Abuses of History vol. 4844: Abraham Firkovich

we literally missed the crucifixion - the Russian approach was haphazard - glimmering fragments of these unrecorded legends - a scroll of sacred writings (the Book of Esther) discovered by Firkovich - the Madjalis Document had sketchily disappeared and then reappeared in the Firkovich collection

Sam Stoeltje

The Sociopath Represented

prosecutors, not psychologists - so I Google search « Elliot Rodger sociopath » - the « killer » gives form to himself - the originary monsters against which all others are defined - illustrating why the female body had to be sacrificed - placed the national cost of psychopathy at $460 billion a year

Katie Bradshaw

discreet, discrete (are secrets)

forward thus growing - how do strangers / get closer, are they / not strangers? - the moon confuses - same implying sameness - sources require - you owe me in winter - your things to do / tick tock down at the bottom - how I make you constant