Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 2 of its occasional intellectual journal Animal Shelter, edited by Hedi El Kholti. Fleeting, ephemeral, nondigital, and nonhierarchical, Animal Shelter is, as Alex Gartenfeld wrote in Interview, "a loose collection of texts, sequenced like a mixtape"-focused yet eclectic. Gathered around a long conversation with philosopher Paul Virilio on "The Littoral as Final Frontier," conducted on the first day of the "flash crack" collapse of the European markets, issue 2 features fiction, artwork, poetry, conversations, and essays which orbit desublimation, digression, negative monument, catastrophe, shadows, horror, sexiness . . . Moyra Davey on writer's block, Walter Benjamin, and Jane Bowles. Bruce Hainley channels Paloma Picasso to jot some notes on Margie Schnibbe and the "explicit." Bifo on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes's Wide Shut, and the relation between irony and cynicism  an. An interview with Paul Virilio on seascape, inertia, and the Zynthia cyclone  . Chris Kraus and Sylvère Lotringer on George Porcari's ambient photography  . Shlomo Sand and Sylvère Lotringer on contemporary Israel, myth, and the invention of Zionism. Alistair McCartney on early 90s bohemia in Hyde Park, Perth, Australia. Dodie Bellamy on queer subculture and the "Goldilocks syndrome." Veronica Gonzalez's short story on friendship, loss, and Los Angeles  . Rachel Kushner's short story that takes up pubescence, motorcycles, and Flaubert's lewd correspondence from the Nile. A rare short story by Eileen Myles on Winston Leyland's legendary 70s tabloid, Gay Sunshine. Other contributors include: Robert Dewhurst, Ben Ehrenreich, Matt Fishbeck, Paul Gellman, Slava Mogutin, Jed Ochmanek, John Pluecker, Michael Rashkow, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Sarah Wang, and others.

Art Sex Literature: Issue 2

Paul Virilio

Sylvère Lotringer

Dodie Bellamy

Chris Kraus

Moyra Davey

Eileen Myles

Franco Bifo Berardi

Shlomo Sand

hedi el kholti

Semiotext[e]

Evolution

Grove Press UK

Afterglow

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

GROVE PRESS

The first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets&#8213;and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice&#8213;here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts&#8213;like nobody else&#8213;the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines of the title poem: Something unearthly about today so I buy a Diet Coke & a newspaper a version of "me" something about me on the earth & its sneakers & feeling like the earth's furniture but that can't be true or like the coke & the Times it's true for a little while.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

Tuskar Rock

Sadie Benning is not only among the country's most respected and influential video artists, she also broke cultural ground as a founding member of the multimedia feminist band Le Tigre. Suspended Animation, the first monograph on the artist and the catalogue of her first U.S. museum exhibition, introduces Benning's paintings and Play Pause, an ambitious new two-channel video installation. Benning's videos, which she began to make in the late 1980s with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision 2000 "toy camera," are known for their explorations of loneliness, alienation, gender ambiguity and her own developing lesbian identity. Benning's recent paintings--flat, illustrative, exuberant--are playful, imaginary portraits that address similar themes. Play Pause, created entirely from hundreds of Benning's drawings, offers a rhythmic and affectionate view of contemporary life in a city's streets, parks and gay bars. Includes written contributions by Eileen Myles and Aleksandar Hemon, and a conversation with the New York painter Amy Sillman.

Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation

Arts & Photography

Aleksandar Hemon

Sadie Benning

Helen Molesworth

Amy Sillman

History & Criticism

Wexner Center for the Arts

Open City features fiction, poetry, and artwork from a dynamic range of voices -- from established writers such as Michael Cunningham, Irvine Welsh, and Mary Gaitskill, to emerging talents like Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, and David Berman, to classic voices from the past including Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Yates. Open City features writing and art preoccupied with the forces effecting the character -- physical, intellectual, and emotional -- of New York City and the city in general, providing readers with an urban portrait of a literary generation in the making. With its unique blend of great storytelling with avant-garde styles, Open City "takes the old literary magazine format and revitalizes it for a new generation's tastes."(Library Journal) Open City 18 includes stories by Bruce Jay Friedman, Rick DeMarinis, and Martha McPhee; art by Al Ruppersberg and Nina Katchadourian; and a special poetry section edited by Honor Moore. "A range of style and voices, both raw and cooked-ranging from highly slick and intellectual to twisted and experimental." -- The New York Times Book Review

Open City #18: Winter 2003-2004

Nick Tosches

Viggo Mortensen

Open City Magazine

Literary

Grove Press, Open City Books

Chelsea Girls

Matthes & Seitz Berlin

CHELSEA GIRLS

Las Afueras

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