Monday, September 7, 2020

Hungry Slingshots (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2020)



Andy Warhol wanted to be a robot or a machine. Hito Steyerl "declares that, since subjectivity is colonized by capitalism, we might as well identify with objects" (quoted in Hal Foster's What Comes After Farce, 2020). This spring Louis Cabri published a poetry collection whose title suggests that objects indeed have agency and, in the case of weapons of minuscule destruction, are in constant need of re-loading.

Here is a brief passage from the (collapsed) opening of Cabri's "Tasty ... Tasty!" (31):

how come

hm ...

--- Hm!----------


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