This series began from the “desire for a poetics adequate to the present, the world since the 2008 economic crisis” (“Post-Crisis Poetics”). To continue constructing a network of practices and encourage discussion, that essay closed with an invitation for views of what writing can contribute to further investigating the post-crisis present.
Brian Ang, Writing the World-System Olive Blackburn, The Summer of 1934: Art and Struggle in San Francisco Dereck Clemons, In American Sci Fi Magazines alex cruse, BODY NEGATIVE Jeff Derksen, The Militant Word Helen Dimos Tongo Eisen-Martin, I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money Rob Halpern, THE WOUND & THE CAMP, or VISCERAL SOLIDARITY: Some Notes toward a Radical Queer Poetics Roberto Harrison, tecumseh republic Carrie Hunter, Post-Crisis Poetics Brenda Iijima, S + COP – E = Computational Topographical Fur Josef Kaplan, Friends Forever Nicholas Komodore, Lipos-polis (towards Amphi-polis) Michael Leong, Towards a Disorientalist Poetics Trisha Low, from Socialist Realism T.C. Marshall, A Secret Agent, a Spaceman, & a Talking Bear: A Theory of Doubling the Stakes in Poetry Chris Nealon, The Matter of Capital in 2016 Robert Andrew Perez, On Productive Ambivalence, Or Liminality, Or 27 Notes on Butch Kween Poetics Mg Roberts, a zeppelin, a blossom Oki Sogumi Christine Stewart Cruel Work: Chris Chen Interviews Wendy Trevino Cassandra Troyan, from POSTSCRIPT FOR A FUTURE’S PAST Jeanine Onori Webb, Stars, Seeds, Swarms: on the present and future of border-area action collectives Steven Zultanski
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
ARMED CELL 12
SHANE BOOK
ALL OF THE THINGS
UTILLIAN 720
MURDERIZED BORDER
ZACK HABER
from HORRIBLE PLACES
DANIELLE LAFRANCE
I MIGHT DIE BEFORE I LIKE IT
MICHAEL LEONG
from DISORIENTATIONS
EMJI SPERO
FREEWAY STATEMENT
CALEB BECKWITH
THEY LIVE
ACCELERATIONIST RENAISSANCE
DIALECTICIANS
COUNTER-HEGEMONIC DYSPHORIA
MUTUAL AID
BLACK BLOC IN THE NATION
OR, THE MATERIALISTS
NEWBIES LAMENT
BROKEN WINDOWS
I LOVE THE RESISTANCE!
BUBBLE WRAP
DESPERATE TIMES
TOLERANCE
WHITE FEMINISM
EMBODIMENT
FRICTIONLESS DIFFERENCE, OR
PEACEFUL PROTEST
NOSTALGIA
ECONOMIC REALISM
COGNITIVE LABOR
Edited by Brian Ang
Covers by Mayakov+sky Platform
from Lipos-polis (towards Amphi-polis)
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ARMED CELL 12 was first distributed at Desert Poetry, Landers and Joshua Tree, April 7-9, 2017. ARMED CELL 13 will appear in October 2017. Submit cover images and writing by the end of August 2017 for consideration.
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