What I mean is this: it always takes longer than you have scheduled for, if you are coming from the outside in.
What a garbage year it’s been! Shockingly (at least to me, given how endless and abbreviated it has managed to feel all at once), we’re already well past the halfway point.
[This is a first draft, with intentions to be cleaned up for submissions.] You’ve been dreading having to work on anything in the server room since you landed this gig. You could feel the anxiety rising behind your sternum, already heightened from all the feigned-knowing nods and deflective smiles you’d been pulling throughout the day,…
the market hates you even more than you hate yourself Rae Armantrout, “Hate”
I lived in an apartment once that flooded the night I moved in. I counted myself lucky I had already moved electronics into a different room than the one where the water was pouring in, but stepping into a puddle in my socks in the dark was no less a shock. The rest of the…
In every act of communication with others, this privacy of the imagination is ruptured and its products intermingle with other products to take on a form that exceeds our own private reach. From the moment that these products emerge into circulation to create friction among one another, sparks of enthusiasm, horror, incomprehension or disruption may…