How does this writer, Vi Khi Nao, even exist?  She puts herself on a wood stove. Stretches her fingers. Stretches her back. Stretches her toes. She reaches out to the cutting board. She places herself on the cutting board. She slants herself on the cutting board. She lifts the hammer. She lifts it high. As high as her eyebrows. She lifts her skirt up. She lifts her skirt with the unused hand. She lifts it up for the view. She lifts the skirt. She lifts the hammer. The hammer falls... Wait: correction.  With a hatchet. She takes herself apart with a hatchet.  She puts herself on the wood stove....

The Vanishing Point of Desire

Vi Khi Nao

Fugue State Press

A cross between the genre of newspaper personals and the self-display of online dating, Human Tetris comprises a series of calls for lovers: whimsical, serious, mournful, thirsty, trite, and true. Written as a collaboration between two very different voices, with each entry addressed not to but through the other, Human Tetris is an obviously personal project that seeks not so much connection as an understanding of the shape of desire.

Human Tetris

Ali Raz

1111 Press LLC

Somewhere between a journal and a report, a question and an answer, Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche takes up the "only serious problem in philosophy" and submits it to the only kind of scrutiny proper to it: the personal. In arriving at this "personal" account, however, Nao detours through decidedly un-private, public cultural touchpoints-the lives of celebrities, religion, television shows, sporting events-and in doing so lays bare how even this most subjective of phenomena grows out of an endless encounter with the world. Race has a part in this encounter. So does migration. As does money. Growing out of these entanglements, queer affinities bud and bloom in this text-which, made up of pen-and-ink drawings, photographs, and Nao's playful spin on pilish, is simultaneously constrained and unconstrained-to become the bonds that can make one want to live on.

Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche

11:11 Press

Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today.\nMeditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light?\nThe anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving access to tools , a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined.\nCompiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen.

Tools for Extinction

Literature & Fiction

Olivia Sudjic

Enrique-Vila-Matas

Joanna Walsh

Naja Marie Aidt

Jeaan-Baptiste del Amo

Christina Hesselholdt

Mara Coson

Jakuta Alikavazovic

Contemporary

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