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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.

Socialism and/or Barbarism

The sadness of the rich

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 13, 2015
One actually cannot die from a broken heart. The rich have experimented on this front.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

cartography's nausea

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 12, 2015
It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

In the future

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 12, 2015
    In the future, when the remains of this age are sifted through by chatbot archaeologists, they will shake their little algorithmic heads and…
Essays & Reviews

The Honeyed Siphon

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 17, 2014
For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Uncertain augury

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 25, 2014
On exiting the subway today, climbing the stairs up into Union Square, a small feather fell onto our faces. Then more. We looked up. A…
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 5, 2014
      We are forever staggered that we are not ceaselessly wrecked against the shoals of the world and ourselves    
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Fragment from a history of domestic architecture, 2548 AD

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 5, 2014
The house was dying. That much was sure.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

To relax and create beautiful monstrosities

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 1, 2014
  Michael Moorcock describes, in 1972, the origin of both Ello and Red Lobster's new Fresh Catch Lobster Tail-Stuffed Scampi Garlic Lobster Sliders.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The rich own watches

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 10, 2014
Terrified by time yet aware that it is money, the rich own watches.
Sunday Reading-

JUDEX: There Has Been a Bird

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 9, 2014
A new video essay by Evan Calder Williams for Criterion Collection, Judex: There Has Been a Bird looks at George Franju's recently reissued Judex (1963) to…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The rich go to the zoo

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 8, 2014
Are hyenas Crossfit?
Socialism and/or Barbarism

When the rich walk

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 5, 2014
For the rich, when they walk, there is no firmament
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 2, 2014
  May they all be so
Essays & Reviews

Stoppage Time

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 14, 2014
A network rubbernecks its own disaster in real time, but we feel it as always just after and already just elsewhere
Socialism and/or Barbarism

but not when she was a child

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 4, 2014
  (Jane Bowles, "Everything is Nice")
Socialism and/or Barbarism

RIP Farocki (1944 - 2014)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 31, 2014
In the cinema it is as if the world itself wanted to tell us something.

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