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Evan Calder Williams

is a writer, artist, and translator. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, Roman Letters, and, forthcoming, Against the Flood: The Italian Critique of Gender and Capital and Donkey Time.

Features

Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 17, 2017
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Sick City, Soaked Lens

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 10, 2017
When even the camera itself can’t be excused for its complicity.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Where the butchers still wash their hands

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 10, 2016
They think only that which sounds beautiful can be true.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

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By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 9, 2016
  Pat Parker, Pit Stop
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Then and Now and Never (Part 2)

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 29, 2016
From the search to survivors to the search for images.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Then and Now and Never (Part 1)

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 27, 2016
On the earthquake in Amatrice, the search for survivors, and the inland beach that drowns the soil.
Essays & Reviews

Manual Override

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 21, 2016
The history of sabotage is the history of capitalism unmaking itself
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 27, 2015
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Memorial Day

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 26, 2015
        Frantz Fanon, "Colonial War and Mental Disorders," The Wretched of the Earth
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Counterproductive

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 1, 2015
America ceased to understand black Americans as "productive," and it has never stopped blaming them for this.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

In love and memory

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 22, 2015
In love and memory of you, Chris, who were a friend and a comrade, you who literally taught me the meaning of that word. How…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Any person who sings the praises of war is, in our opinion, a blithering idiot (Christmas Day, 1915)

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 14, 2015
O’ROURKE (London.) – Thanks, comrade. We are more proud of the comradeship of toilers like yourself than you can well imagine. It is such loyalty…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A brief review of Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 14, 2015
In a just world, a virus of tremendous scope and tenacity would ravage all the archives.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 7, 2015
Like most people I know, I touch glass at least once an hour, almost every hour that I am awake, almost every day of the year.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Violent Motion, 1

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 19, 2015
Cinema’s first execution is not seen by the executed. That’s what we are there for.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Free speech, and other things that cost $91,000,000.00

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 22, 2015
Things that cost this much do not need to be protected. They are what we need to protect ourselves against.

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