Diego Garcia
Recent debates about the point where avowals of solidarity shade into appropriation loom over the novel … In keeping with the zeitgeist of the post-Occupy years, Damaris and Oliver aspire to live in a state of multitudinousness. Following Fred Moten and Edouard Glissant, they want to exist “without consent to being single beings.” Their free use of other people’s words could be interpreted in this way—or is splicing in these texts the kind of arrogation of others’ experiences they are usually against?
Jim Henderson reviews Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams‘s novel Diego Garcia.
Poem Brut #137 – Kungsholmen Poems
The three blue/black ink drawings were made in Stockholm, during a time when I would spend much of my work days on the telephone. I would get on the phone, grab a blank piece of A4 with staple holes in it, and let the pen go wherever it wanted. The brown (gouache) picture came about while off the phone, but in a similar way — the figure emerged with little thought or intention, mediated by a seemingly blank mind. I didn’t know what I was setting out to achieve, but it felt good–the process mattered more than the result. In similar fashion, the texts came about as short, spontaneous reflections on something I’d seen or imagined during the day, written down without much intention while sat at my small kitchen table, overlooking the rooftops of Kungsholmen in Stockholm.
In the 137th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Charles Putschkin.