Courtney Chatellier
Articles by Courtney Chatellier:
Believers
in Issue 57 | Crying Wolf (Oct 2015)a hug without his giving - awkward or otherwise regrettable - raise the spectre of women - until the moment they protest - passive forms of discomfort as sufficient proof - a larger obsession with knowing - Mattress Performance - not being able to believe ourselves
On Giving the Lie
in Issue 7 | Lies (Aug 2011)« I don’t have an iPhone » - the artistry and etiquette of lying - a performative, a kind of gauntlet-throwing - sovereignty and the Word - the special impotence of speechlessness - « to say he Lies, tho' but in Jest, is an Affront that nothing but Blood can expiate » - 1.) once; 2.) in time; and 3.) unmistakably - thunderclap—echo - authorship or ownership of the lie