ISSUE 8 | SEP 2011
HUNGER
Anna McConnell
Stuffing Myself with Immanence until I Am Scratching a Hole to...
isolation - not ballsy enough for anorexia - the duped woman - the pure enthrallment of the mirror - if you are not fine, do not write - she builds a nest in her immanence - twitching in our bell jars - feminism had killed herself - a glimpse of her legs - a scummy jazz musician - the sex of her body grants her access - « anything to more fully degrade this body » - trash, utter trash
Jason Zouave
Two Forgotten Stories of a Guest
English was not his mother tongue - belinted, striped socks - show us a trick - « the snake slid down » - « he had been forced to tear them to pieces » - certainly a bad joke - I listened from the doorway - « whatever it was, he’d ‘out-eat’ it » - « after three days, a jar of honey » - metaphor for mourning
Casey Lange
Tricky Matter: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
miracle diets - materially fatter and bigger - reproduction & consumption - the peculiar quality or power of internet memes - the virus is not a continuity of substance - a distance maintained up to the moment of ingestion - a free thing in the universe - exhibition value - the reproductions generate desire - a mirror of the world
Hannah Taber
Stay Hungry
interpersonal hunger strikes - the territorial integrity of Cornwall - a campaign to inspire awareness - a piece of chocolate calculatingly passed across the negotiation table - a forbidden phone call - an anteater rooting blindly through a pile of sand - emotional weight
Michael Kinnucan
Looking and Wanting to Touch: Irony and Its Enemies
the weeks after 9/11 - Roger Rosenblatt’s distasteful editorial - Real Things like death and freedom - the ironist as omnipotent, dissolving cultural force - the fantasmatic hipster - distanced, inauthentic consumption - what the poser was to the punk - the activity of Socrates in its simplest form - sarcasm - the consciousness of ambiguity - the black hole behind his irony - one choice among others
Charlotte Krontiris
Good Morning Heartache
that miserable truck - her eyes half-closed and her face lifted up to the sky - « Why was I born to love you? » - a sad, starving heart - love a wretch, and be left wanting - two different sorts of cravings - Holiday's nightmarish journey - why make it such a mellow pleasure? - ruthless awareness of our ordinary lives
Rico Altman-Merino
The Genealogy of Addiction, from Vedas to Manu
an inconvenience so remarkable as to be easily avoided - prasanga - meditative brahmanism - battle sacrifice - the positing of dharma - religious pollution unleashed on the sensory world - the ritualist and the renunciant - the old Vedic gods as fixtures of the world - a desire for heaven - the Laws of Manu - « a charioteer restraining his race-horses » - addiction, the near-unseverable attachment
Adrian Randall
Peter Greenaway and the Pleasures of the Flesh
sensory and intellectual overload - the Greenaway style - psychosomatic mise-en-scène - a series of satanic Last Suppers - the mire of symbolism - how to treat a disorder - thought will kill us
Jaclyn Backhaus
The Snack Manifesto: A Case Study in the Hoarding of Informational Tidbits and the Science of Artful Nibbling
small and inspirational encounters with nouns - the Snacking movement - non-meals - the morsels of mind - « He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon » - the phrase « human beans » - the Coney Island evacuation museum - the inherent truths of speed dating
Cat Pierro
Changes
the morphing process - the two-hour time limit - you wanted to stay human - a tiger mind engrossed in tiger thoughts - easy to dismiss the Animorphs - out of touch with their own species - subjected to your past