ISSUE 71 | JAN 2017

THE FRENCH ISSUE

Image by Leah Gallant

Lenna Pierce

Trauma in a Benevolent Monastery

said the bureaucrat to the beautiful liar - a former monastery in a tiny French village - my great uncle had two death certificates - a celtic paleolith - a reverse Eiffel Tower - we could see the fascists coming through the fields - I dutifully marked myself Facebook safe

J. Holler

Liberté and the Emergency State

a replacement for the sitting President François Hollande - surge of 20% after the Charlie Hebdo attacks - what may be considered France's more assertive version of secularism - blurred lines between internal and external security threats - a transnational solution

Thomas Gaflan

自己人: A Better America through Chinese Counterstrike

team-based tactical combat game - it always happens this way, so nobody complains - family problems; iconoclasm; simple pique - the Baltimore police who killed Freddie Gray - the option to automatically punish friendly fire - disarm as many individual police officers as possible

Alexandra Myshalov

Flying Air France

the rapid expansion of civil air transport - renewed competition among the European colonial powers - there are no major hubs inside the triangle formed by Madrid, Johannesburg, and Dubai - Air Afrique soon dropped money-losing domestic routes - complimentary champagne

Bonnie Alexander

Becoming Victim: Womanhood and Masochism

girl power! - the affective state of being-woman - novella-manifesto King-Kong Theory - to become-victim in fantasy rather than reality - it is difficult to determine whether lesbian kink helps us to subvert or reinforce that state - Deleuzian masochism