ISSUE 72 | FEB 2017

PRACTICE

Image by Tom Dyne.

In reality we tend to the machines in terror - need is reinscribed as a purchased pleasure - on these bones is built Autozone - auto / nomos - the answer the poem gives is the old Marxist one - trust in working people - determined by race, gender, colonialism, imperialism and all forms of oppression - I wrote this poem at work

Daniel Brooks

Cuckstoevsky: Teaching Russian Literature in Trump’s America

Making Literature Relevant Again - the theory of alpha and beta types - the alt-right has reframed the sexual and biological features of cuckoldry as racial - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, the radical critic and accidental godfather of Alan Greenspan - Girard sees Dostoevsky's unnamed protagonist - like Trusotsky, like Roosh V, Trump cucks himself - make the cuck great again

Michael Kinnucan

Some Labor Disputes in the State Violence Industry

Bring back our police - grievance and betrayal - wildcat strike - a ten-year-old - Bloomberg - Giuliani - Trump

Lenna Pierce

Some Thoughts on “The Art of Practicing” by Madeline Bruser

how to move your fingers really well - eventually you are graceful - carpal tunnel syndrome - Bubble your lips - the possibility of joy

Rabbi Mordechai Rackover

A Lament

obsessed with practice - veil of convulsions - when people die - after bread, after sex - aninut is a response to two issues

Colin Drumm

Choose Your Own Adventure

It’s June 2018 - it's Jan 23rd, 2018 - it's winter of 2019 - the Army has agreed to hold a 2020 presidential election - the good bank to be purchased by Goldman Sachs and the bad one to be nationalized - it's December 2020 - do you dump him or make a down payment? - it's June 2017 - it's the first week of February 2017