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 […]
[The original post contained unauthorized stills and transcripts from the film Exergue on documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Faliro House Productions, 2024. They have been removed on request.] We could say that Trumpism is a sort of revenge of all against all. The political project that Trump has promised to implement has the characteristics of revenge, […]
Richard Finlay Fletcher: Okay, so welcome to minus plato? I just thought you could briefly introduce yourself and then tell us a little bit about your relationship with documenta 14. Fil Ieropoulos: My name is Fil Ieropoulos. I live and work in Athens. I am an artist and filmmaker and researcher as well. My relationship […]
Dear David, How are you doing? I thought of you today as I was reading an essay by Tom Leonard. It’s called ‘Beckett and Graham’, and I can’t remember where I came across it, but I think it was something in James Kelman and I thought about you because of you poetry path in, both […]
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, […]
This is Richard Finlay Fletcher and you were just reading/listening to Lawrence Abu Hamdan in a lecture that he gave in 2017 called Bird Watching. I shared a selection of the lecture, the part that was focused on the Syrian prison of Saydnaya, a prison that today (December 9th, 2024), with the fleeing of President […]
[The original post contained unauthorized stills and transcripts from the film Exergue on documenta 14, dir. Dimitris Athiridis, Faliro House Productions, 2024. They have been removed to avoid penalties.] “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 […]
So, is Minus Plato really back? Yes and no. For those of you who have never heard of Minus Plato before, let me just give you a recap of what it was. My name is Richard Finlay Fletcher and I created the blog, platform, and persona of Minus Plato back in 2012. At that time, […]
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 […]