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 […]
Why this book today? Well, it could be that he saw an Instagram post by documenta 14 curator Natasha Ginwala celebrating Miriam Cahn’s work? Or is it because he missed the ImagineNative opening night screening of Danis Goulet’s dystopian thriller Night Raiders set in 2043, and somehow wanted to connect Cahn’s brutal imagery of humans […]
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 […]
Afterall Journal 43 Contents Foreword– Charles Stankievech Contextual Essays Dedicated to the Anishnawbekwe– Lee Maracle Coloniality is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality– Walter D. Mignolo Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory– Zoe Todd Ethno-Futurism: Leaning on the Past, Working for the Future– Anders Kreuger Artists Lubaina Himid […]
a place / in which the living shows itself visibly over the ordering / where the impossibility of a destruction turns again and again blossoms from its opposite / from the conceivable consequences of the non-sterile into the bold future. – from Lois Weinberger ‘In the Geography of Deer and Mole’, in DEBRIS FIELD: ERKUNDUNGEN […]
As a library-ghost, I spend a considerable amount of time in my afterlife reflecting on life and death, not only my own, but also as part of the relationship between the books on these shelves I haunt. For example, and I can understand if you don’t believe me, but I feel a distinct shift from […]
The land is civilized, free, prosperous, law-abiding, moderate and cautious. Its many virtues may be summarized as the “banality of the good.” Asked by the tabloid BILD-Zeitung what feelings Germany awakens inher, Angela Merkel once famously replied, “I think of well-sealed windows! No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows.” Timothy Garton-Ash, “The […]
So, fellow reader, yesterday’s post was a test. Did you pass? Just because I am not here to accompany a post about a book (in this case Artists and Buildings by Scottish artist David Harding), it doesn’t turn that post into a placeholder. I am behind every post that our librarian types; thinking within his […]
