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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

if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 23, 2014
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Salvage, Without the Punk

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 9, 2014
Neither more nor less political than smearing neon paint on a machete.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

An Audio Letter

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 8, 2014
The past crammed beneath our feet sings, the debt will not return.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

1966 - 1990

By Evan Calder WilliamsJune 2, 2014
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 12, 2014
This Wednesday, I'll be giving the last of the talks in my series on sabotage (Manual Override) at the Center for Transformative Media. This time, I'm…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Glass Barricades, 1

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 7, 2014
An unblocked road is not seen, merely driven on.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Sabotage Talk #3: Space, or, Birds too stuffed with Polynices' corpse to augur worth a damn

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 24, 2014
"Our epoch can at least be sure of one thing: it will not go down peacefully."
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Violent X

By Evan Calder WilliamsApril 11, 2014
These are tinderbox days...
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Video of sabotage talk n. 2 (booby traps, leaked prison plans, and cunning beasts)

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 14, 2014
For those interested who couldn't make it, here is the video of my talk (starting at 8'40") on Monday on time and sabotage. As often…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Sabotage of Time

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 5, 2014
For those in NYC, I'll be giving the next talk in my series on sabotage at  this coming Monday, March 10th. (For those not, it'll…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Courage, Please

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 4, 2014
Robert Ashley died today.  In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo    
Socialism and/or Barbarism

In Space No One Can Hear You Spew

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 4, 2014
Through the scrim of puke, the infinite is Ecto Cooler.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

the Empire chest-of-drawers silently protests

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 22, 2014
His Tobias Mindernickel, a waif-like figure of Dostoyevskyian inspiration, lives in terrible solitude on the top floor of a working-class house, in a wretched room…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Shard Cinema, 1

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 17, 2014
The application of bullet time to all that exists.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Able to be turned on, and that is it

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 7, 2014
They never tune the healing beds to give the Elysians syphilis.
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 21, 2013
Brief note: Have been, and will continue to be, silent here of late due to the final weeks of finishing a dissertation project. I will…

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