experimental essayism

Stuart Hall and accompanying screens
Posted on 2015/10/27 by

Articulate Air: Channel 4, Stuart Hall, and the Black Audio Film Collective

Etymological Preamble “Articulation” is rooted in discourses of both law and the body. Derived from the Latin articulus, meaning “small connecting part,” the word referred to the location at which joints or ligaments connect, and is still employed in our current use of “articular surfaces” in the language of anatomy. But ironically, “to join together” Read More

Posted on 2014/12/05 by

Boot Camp: “Composing a Backward Essay;” or: “Making Deformative Poetics with My Computer;” or: “How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drive;” or: “Sabotaging Conclusions”

The titles always come last. Before that, comes the final warning: This essay irrecoverably destroys data! Eulogy: I regard the wasted corpse that used to be my computer. Once glitched beyond repair, now a useless assemblage of titanium, plastic, wire and glass. Many of its sensual qualities remain: the keys that have embraced the impact of my Read More