“Open the so-called body” of Schrift: Descending into the Labyrinthine Palimpsest of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid

Affect is Dead! Long Live Affect!

Can a Salmon Swim Without its Skin?

A piece of surrealist automatic poetic writing that attempts to grapple with the naivety of AI-generated images. This poem is inspired by an AI generated image of salmon swimming, whereby the AI creates an image akin to a Breton-esque imagination. In a similar fashion to how Man Ray saw Lee Miller as his muse, I find my muse in the innumerable lines of codes that surround the naked AI generator.

I: The Sommelier’s Commute.

The first chapter of a series of ten inter-connected short stories about different people on their commutes to work. This work takes inspiration from Ezra Pound's imagist poem "In a Station on the Metro", and attempts to explore that feeling of meeting the same people on trains, but you're unsure if they're the same

Do Not Go Blind Into That Sunless Blight.

Villanelle about how dreams create better poems than will ever be penned

Towards the Postcapitalist Intellectual: Forming a Climate Vanguard through Violent and Radical Protest.

This paper begins with a simple accusation: that the public intellectual has abandoned the streets and activism in favour of comfy armchairs and apolitical stances. Further still, this paper explores the innate contradictions of multinational climate change agreements like the 2015 Paris Agreement; I instead argue for the necessity of a radical and violent response to the failure of the Fossil Economy to solve its problem. It proposes the concept of "postcapitalist intellectuals" as both writers and active participants in a climate vanguard. This concept is explored by examining the historical failures of leftist revolutions: France, May 1968; Allende's Chile, 1973; and most importantly, the present and looming climate catastrophe. To evaluate these failures, this essay synthesises Jean-François Lyotard’s 1974 Libidinal Economy and Mark Fisher’s unpublished theories from “Acid Communism” and Postcapitalist Desire. These texts inform the formation of the “postcapitalist intellectual”.

a morning coffee.

Free write exercise about someone drinking coffee and judging people

becoming-cow:

becoming-cow bros

Bearing witness to the wake-differend’s of slavery.

How can one tell the story that can't be told, which must be told? M. NourbeSe Phillip's seminal poetry collection Zong! seeks to answer this pertinent question. Her answer through 'not telling'. This essay proposes a collation of the works of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend with Christina Sharpe's In The Wake to bear witness to stories that cannot be told; by bearing witness to the wake-differend.

a triptych on writing poetry:

A triptych on the process of writing poetry. Each example grapples with a difficulty in writing (and reading) poetry, and all at least engage with different philosophies that compose poetry. Each poem has more or less been influenced by Henryk Górecki's third symphony and the implications of its second movement, lento e lento.

Performing manhood: Hypermasculinity and quare representation in Moonlight and The Dark Knight.

An essay exploring the problems with hypermasculine presentations in Nolan's 'Dark Knight' trilogy. And how Barry Jenkin's 'Moonlight' presents a deconstruction of Nolan's hypermasculine tropes through a bildungsroman celebrating black quare life in its ontological negation and difficulties.