William Faulkner once allowed himself to be interviewed on the radio during a University of Virginia football game, and was introduced as a winner of the Mobil Prize. – David Markson, Vanishing Point (2004). I’m sitting in a reading room at the Thompson Library at this Ohio State University where I teach. Surreptitiously speaking these […]

Freedom or principle? That’s the question on my mind right now, following the news that the next Artistic Director of Documenta, Documenta 16, that’ll take place in 2027, will be Naomi Beckwith. This announcement comes with quite a lot of painful feelings. On one level, it’s so exciting that a Black woman, an American curator, […]

“Order prevails in Warsaw!” “Order prevails in Paris!” “Order prevails in Berlin!” The revolution does not develop evenly of its own volition, in a clear field of battle, according to a cunning plan devised by clever “strategists.” Do you understand? Because of the contradiction in the early stages of the revolutionary process between the task […]

Welcome to The Minus Plato Archive! This website documents the blog, platform and persona Minus Plato (2012-2022). You can choose to explore the archive through the headers above or if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, via the dropdown tab ‘Archive’ that lists all the posts by date. But before you get […]

I have spent so long over the last few months writing in another voice that I wanted to make sure as Minus Plato came to an end (the last post will be this Wednesday on May 4th) that I took a moment to reflect as myself – Richard Fletcher – on what these ten years […]