My fears, I imagine, are something like the oak’s as it hears termites in its innards and has nothing to do but wait. A pain in the mind, prickling and well-groomed. Ready for fissure. An everyday itch. An ideation from contemplation: when the body seizes hold of an idea it tickles itself with possibilities and ghostly … Continue reading My Fears (like the Oak’s) – A Poem
Author: nothisispat
Some odd thoughts: Warhammer 40k & Politics
"...in the grim dark future there is only war." As I continue to ponder what, precisely, my politics are - and how I can understand The Political in connection to said politics - I decided it might be worthwhile to attempt a kind of critique against some of my favorite fiction to draw out my … Continue reading Some odd thoughts: Warhammer 40k & Politics
Boise – A Poem
In the morning I eat bacon, hash browns, and a crepe cooked in the microwave. I drink vanilla from a glass filled with black seeds to help get my pill down. I stick an Icyhot to my mother's back, soothing her spasms as we drive to go stuff letters in jaundiced envelopes, and smack small … Continue reading Boise – A Poem
Sinful Dialectic
I “...the negative itself, we may say, has reduced all these individuals, not to their most elementary essence as commodity and labor power (as Lukacs argued in History and Class Consciousness), but precisely to their elemental power as negation and revolutionary refusal, as agency, as a form of revolt in which they are all equal … Continue reading Sinful Dialectic
Manifestopheles: An Investigation into the Faustian Nature of Adaptation
This piece, Manifestopheles:An Investigation into the Faustian Nature of Adaptation, was my final thesis for my BA in Media Studies. Looking back at it there are certainly things I would like to change, pathways I would like to explore further, and once promising lines of inquiry that now seem like dead ends. There are errors, … Continue reading Manifestopheles: An Investigation into the Faustian Nature of Adaptation
A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wish’d -The Speech of Hamlet, The Desire of Ending
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and … Continue reading A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wish’d -The Speech of Hamlet, The Desire of Ending
Anonymous Democracy
I haven't been particularly political until very recently in my life. I still am not entirely sure what "politics" actually is. My gut instinct is that it involves the decisions that determine our everyday lives as a group (the "our" and "group" being members of a nation, state, city, etc.) Yet, decisions seem lacking today. … Continue reading Anonymous Democracy
