Originally posted on Tony Robert Cochran:
T’was marching white lines of code, from Individual-1’s fading white abode, from whence, white they, or white them, or white it, came striding cross green grass, waves, bottles of blistering white fear, white hatred, pale malcontents bestrode, breaching democracy’s neoclassical rationalism, a white building & coequal branch, trees–Joshua trees,…
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Socks, Death & Life in 2020
Originally posted on Tony Robert Cochran:
On December 27th, I opened my email and received the word of the day, fainéant. This obscure word, derived from French, seemed to encapsulate my feelings about the last, crawling days of 2020. The roaring 20s’ of the 21st Century opened, unfolded, and ended with a kind of jolting…
Anarchist Prisoner, Mónica Caballero, Launches Hunger Strike in the San Miguel Prison
Originally posted on Wessex Solidarity:
La Zarzamora. Amidst widespread mobilizations inside Chilean prisons for the restitution of dignified visits for prisoners, and 10 years since the massacre in the San Miguel Prison, Mónica Caballero, together with two other prisoners from the “Connotación Publica” module, have begun a hunger strike, uniting with the hunger strike already…
Mónica Caballero presa anarquista, inicia Huelga de Hambre en Cárcel de San Miguel
Originally posted on LA ZARZAMORA:
Por La Zarzamora En el marco de las masivas movilizaciones dentro de las cárceles de todo el territorio, por la restitución de visitas dignas para lxs privadxs de libertad, y a horas de cumplirse 10 años de la masacre en cárcel de San Miguel, Mónica Caballero, junto a dos presas…
Desert Wounds
Originally posted on The Light is On:
Salt on skin bare to the sun burns like that high fire flowing through canals from scar to scar strange constellations etched in living skin a mythology of flesh and blood defiant to the sun and wind and desert sand New scars and a story yet to be…
Horror in Color: Film Reviews, Remi Weekes’s (2020) His House & Ari Aster’s (2018) Hereditary
Originally posted on Tony Robert Cochran:
Remi Weekes’s (2020) film His House is a daunting masterpiece of cinematic horror. And Ari Aster’s (2018) horror film Hereditary does its job; it scares the hell out of its audience. These two films have commonalities; both of them revolve around an outside force that manifests itself through the…
The Shattered Series: Chapters 1-10, Book One
Originally posted on Tony Robert Cochran:
Anselm Kiefer, The Orders of the Night (Die Orden der Nacht), 1996, emulsion, acrylic, and shellac on canvas, 140 ⅜ × 182 ⅜ inches (356 × 463 cm). Photo: © Seattle Art Museum ? Shattered. Forgetful. Forgot. Ten years, one month. What’s in a calamity? – he mused. Rejecting…