Glitches are, so often, the abrasions we “impose upon the fine surface” (Barthes, there) of all that we read (which is, also: what we smell, see, vibrate with, etc.), but are also the abrasions we receive (through Ouija-style transmissions of [...]
“Scars can see into the future.”- Hannah, Dark ep.1 I’ve recently been writing ekphrastic poems about the Netflix show Dark, a murder mystery with (spoiler alert) time travel. The story follows several families through different time periods. Each [...]
The Silence (1963) Directed by Ingmar Bergman 1. Gertrude Stein famously said she went to France to be alone with the English language. I was never alone with the English language. I never wanted to be alone with [...]
We proudly present the third installment of Action Books' N O I S E M A K E R S, a new monthly series that recognizes poets, translators, and poet-translators whose recently published work pushes boundaries, goes too far, to [...]
Johannes’ post on “ecstatic technology” critiques the communication model and its accompanying rhetoric of the gold standard, which relies on the idea of “fidelity to this stable interiority.” I wanted to follow up on Johannes’ post by exploring this concept [...]
1. In The Art of Mixing, Dave Gibson introduces the presence of sound in a mix by encouraging readers to imagine the different sounds in a song visually, as balloons taking up physical space in the air between the speakers [...]
Olivia Cronk’s newest release, Womonster takes the form of two long poems. INTERRO-PORN and CHENILLE. With each exploring various facets of the self as it communicates with its composition and the minor selves contained within. ^ The former half moving [...]
Since reading Johannes’ blog post on occult ekphrasis, I’ve been thinking about Vi Khi Nao’s Sheep Machine. Sheep Machine is a book-length ekphrastic text that documents, second-by-second, Leslie Thornton’s film of the same name. Its unsettled and unstable point-of-view challenges [...]
The below is an excerpt of several selections from two longer works written over the past three years (and part two of three interrelated posts). Part 1 can be read [here] Our proposition, though, is too little or too obvious. [...]
"In Solaris, strange memories are brought into the desperate present. The water world is a beautiful assemblage, constantly shifting shape." —Aase Berg, from Tsunami from Solaris "Assemblages are inherently productive, entering into polyvalent becomings to produce and give expression to [...]