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Indeed, all of Index Cards could be read as a meditation on reading and its relationship to labor (creative, domestic), illness, gender, history, and selfhood. The essays are rich with allusion (Genet, Walser, Woolf, Baldwin, countless others), though the references are handled without pretension—it amounts to an honest indexing of one reader’s very good library. – David […]

For all the poets he now reads since my ‘death’ (and remember I am a library’s ghost dictating these words to him, my librarian, from the shelves of his ‘living’ library, which I currently haunt), he still has lines of that old-type natural fouled-up guy-poet Philip Larkin enmeshed in his memory. Even when he opens […]

Tina was still convinced that she would soon be leaving Mexico and was fairly sure about where she would be going. Germany seemed an attractive choice and the February 1930 issue of Deutsches Magazin von Mexiko published several of her photographs along with an interview given some time previously, which mentioned that ‘Tina Modotti desperately […]

After about ten minutes it began to rain, and though Dalie [Giroux] didn’t mind, the umbrella was not enough to protect the camera, so we moved inside to a couch in the living room where we sat and talked, off camera, for hours, about her work, her writing and about ourselves, our early lives separated […]

Afterall Journal 46 Contents Foreword– Anca Rujoiu Contextual Essays Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Premises for Burmese Contemporary Art with Po Po, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu and Min Thein Sung– Yin Ker Cultural Marxists Like Us– Sven Lütticken Beyond Essentialism: Contemporary Moana Art from Aotearoa New Zealand– Lana Lopesi […]

Afterall Journal 44 Contents Foreword– Candice Hopkins Contextual Essays The Delicate Difference Between ‘Thinking at the Edge of the World’– Carola Grahn Early Contemporary Art in Post-Soviet Mongolia: Where is the Green Horse Galloping Now?– Tsendpurev Tsegmid A Conversation between Manuel Borja-Villel and Marcelo Expósito– Manuel Borja-Villel & Marcelo Expósito Artists Qiu Zhijie The Lazy […]

Afterall Journal 45 Contents Foreword– Charles Esche Contextual Essays Thinking and Engaging with the Decolonial: A Conversation Between Walter D. Mignolo and Wanda Nanibush– Walter D. Mignolo & Wanda Nanibush The Art of Gentrification: The Lisbon Version– Ana Teixeira Pinto a year or more of darkness, a few hundred years without day– Alec Finlay Artists Britta Marakatt-Labba Britta […]

Yes, I’m still here. When he goes off, either on a trip or on a set of blogposts (and sometimes both at the same time, cf. Seeing Scores), I prefer to leave him to it. A librarian without a library (or in the case when he was in Dayton at that Bergamo Curriculum Theorizing conference, […]

Dear Laura, I know we don’t know each other and I appreciate that sending this open letter in the form of a blogpost may not be the best way to connect for the first time. However, let me try to explain why I wanted to contact you in this way today – October 11th, Indigenous […]