riots and/or poetics [9/2023]

there are the hunters & the hunted. the missing link. before the appearance of monsters. that apocalyptic orange stream of light. 45 degrees at 5 am despite this rain. brain images. the white spots that become part of the images. transformations in response. of the social imaginary. guerilla tactics. codes & alien signs. something that wants to be more than sound or sight. the countertendency of véga/lyotard & souyri [le marxisme qui n’a pas fini, esprit, janv. 1982, 6, p.11-31] or the super-macho stuff of general creativity. as fiction becomes reality. there are no distractions. exactement de la même manière. along the…

Two Poets — Ida Börjel & Amiri Baraka

Ida Börjel is one of the most striking voices in contemporary poetry. Each of her much-praised and awarded collections forms a cohesively and rigoursly composed whole that is always rooted in extensive research and a strong thematic principle. Her collection “Miximum Ca’Canny; the Sabotage Manuals“ appears to be both a practical handbook and a philosophical study of the various ways the language of power and authority can be sabotaged, a recurring theme in Börjel’s poetry.