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
Villanelle about how dreams create better poems than will ever be penned
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 To evaluate these failures, this essay synthesises Jean-François Lyotard’s 1974 Libidinal Economy and Mark Fisher’s unpublished theories from “Acid Communism” and Postcapitalist Desire.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”.
Free write exercise about someone drinking coffee and judging people
becoming-cow bros
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 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.
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.
An essay exploring the nature of being at the margins in the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. This essay explores the notion of the pushing of the slave subject's body to the margins of life; therefore, the subject is controlled through Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics.
Meshes of the Afternoon, has long been read under the dead, myopic lens of psychoanalysis. This, short, essay attempts to provide a schizoanalysis, one that resonates more with the texts representations of dreams and desire to construct the notion of a fluxed female identity.
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