“[…]

and someone said “I’m always on strike, I’m a poet“

in his 2004 essay MY FASCISM Kirill Medvedev says you can see how a person can become kind
of crazy from all the various ideological streams moving through his mind in impossibly quick succession

[…]

MY FASCISM is an essay about the relation of politics and art in 2004 in Russia,
how some artists on the far right had made a powerfully vital, syncretic, and dangerous art.
Kirill argues against attachment to an idealized past, the old culture: In Russia right now we’re
all frankensteins, pieced together from various dead traditions. The maximum that we have, right now is air.”

STEPHANIE YOUNG; IT’S NO GOOD EVERYTHING’S BAD (DOUBLECROSS PRESS)

KIRILL MEDVEDEV; IT’S NO GOOD
TRANSLATED BY KEITH GESSEN WITH
MARK KROTOV, CORY MERRILL
AND BELA SHAYEVICH
FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS