Put this on Medium back in '18. Blockbuster embalmed corpses face off with Frida Kahlo viscera in the arena of brunchtime entertainment: I am devouring a Camembert souffle while my girlfriend, looking to buy tickets from her phone, stumbles upon one of these pesky bits of controversy that seem to crop up more and more … Continue reading REPOST: Frida, BODY, and the body
Tag: surrealism
Retreading Surrealism and Existentialism: 2 books I liked
MONSTERS AND MYTHS: SURREALISM & WAR IN THE 1930s AND 1940s: Come for the glorious gatefold reproducing Europe After The Rains II (detail below) in its entirety, stay for four essays diving deep into Surrealism as an interwar movement, one that drew on WWI trauma (some, like Ernst, were veterans) and gave dark omens of … Continue reading Retreading Surrealism and Existentialism: 2 books I liked
The Zone after the rain
Nice bit of juxtaposition in my Saturday morning reading: it’s hard not to feel the Zone as a simulacrum for the internet itself in these late days of humanity: an increasingly cursed realm through which we willingly stalk, despite our certain knowledge of its very unreality. We know that, say, our Facebook friends are not … Continue reading The Zone after the rain
Translating Thanasis Triaridis: prologue to the honey lemons
[the phrase honey lemons is a literal approximation of μελένια λεμόνια, which sounds like melénia lemónia, and if you think this phonetic wordplay jibes nicely with the clash between sweet honey and sour lemon, you should also appreciate it takes a real translator to carry it over into another language. If you are a real … Continue reading Translating Thanasis Triaridis: prologue to the honey lemons
the Budafoki amended 