Issue 60 | September 2019
Conversations: Tomaž Šalamun and Daniel Nester
An interview between Tomaž Šalamun and Daniel Nester.
Subject to Change: On Not Having, or Being, it All
The word queer has gone through many transformations since it emerged in the 16th century. Originally, it meant “strange,” or “peculiar”: associated meanings included a feeling of unwellness or something…
A View From the Mountain
Peer into any of a hundred human hearts;you are sure to find, spun whole, thosemoments buried in the new growth of timepassing; the far-into-the-night-early-dawnexchanges, falling-outs and reconciliations,the wrestle with words…
Change the world, not yourself, or how Arendt called out Thoreau
Thoreau’s theory of civil disobedience inspired some of the world’s greatest political thinkers. Not Hannah Arendt.
“The rope that keeps me from floundering”: On Michel Leiris
First exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon, Olympia by Édouard Manet, was immediately greeted with shock and outrage. The response was so virulent that, as contemporary journalist Antonin Proust later…