Scarface implies that under capitalism, “getting high on your own supply” is inevitable, as the system is based on the exploitation of dissatisfaction.
Images [and Talking Back to Them] by Sara Eliassen presents a new essayistic film installation in Kunstnernes Hus lower exhibition hall, as well as a film and conversation program in the cinema.
HEDI EL KHOLTI: A lot of the obituaries written about Sylvère expressed the notion that he didn’t write a lot, or enough that he regretted not having written The Book. McKenzie Wark, in her beautiful obituary for New Left Review, talked about Sylvère having written other writers instead. I love the sentiment, but I almost want to disagree. As I was reorganizing my bookshelf this week, I kept finding things Sylvère wrote. Just stumbling on them. There’s one in the 1997 ArtCenter publication Asteroid Impaired, called “Ball of Fat,” that riffs on the Maupassant story “Boule de Suif.” It starts like
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How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writerâs Block
Credit.Jillian Tamaki
April 15, 2021
âI get superstitious,â says the author, whose latest novel is âHummingbird Salamanderâ: âI once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. I took that book and dug a hole and buried it deep in the backyard.â
What books are on your night stand?
I chose the night stand for its stalwart qualities and it is currently holding up well under the eclectic weight of an advance copy of John Paul Brammerâs â¡Hola Papi!,â B. R. Yeagerâs âNegative Space,â Bernard Rudofskyâs âThe Prodigious Builders,â Eley Williamsâs âThe Liarâs Dictionary,â Rita Indianaâs âTentacle,â Stephen Graham Jonesâs âThe Only Good Indians,â Julienne Fordâs âParadigms and Fairy Tales,â Angelo Maria Ripellinoâs