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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

1918-1848

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 14, 2013
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A cloaked drone faces itself down in a mirror

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 21, 2013
Up at La Furia Umana: a new essay, departing from Joseph Losey's Figures in a landscape toward condominiums, Bourne, raptors, choppers, reverse shots, death from…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Domesticated WildCats

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 8, 2013
Everything is crime when work and crime do not call out to each other over the fall’s roar, forever pledging revenge.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

the weapon of the disinherited

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 4, 2013
grazie, Alberto
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Prends garde: à jouer au fantôme, on le devient

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 2, 2013
This assimilation to space is necessarily accompanied by a decline in the feeling of personality and life. It should be noted in any case that…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Vampire architecture

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 29, 2013
Low-rent cousin of The Hardware. Where the diurnal undead mill about forever on shag that never quite feels dry, not ever. From the inestimable terriblerealestateagentphotos.com
Socialism and/or Barbarism

1983 - 1962

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 25, 2013
The dead occasionally twitch and so it goes with the cinema…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Some covert wonder

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 17, 2013
The fucking quinoa was on fire.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

An inauspicious beginning

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 21, 2013
Like cancer or money or dusk, no one could ever say precisely when it started.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The first dedicated film studio / A set from a lost film version of Hope Hodgson's The Night Land

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 16, 2013
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Re: Ordinance Prohibiting the Possession of the Tools of Violence And Vandalism During a Demonstration

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 1, 2013
Camouflage that makes all rioters look like local businesses, camouflage that creeps down the throats of riot police on little rat feet.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

the act of God or the public enemy

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 30, 2013
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A Contribution to the Critique of John Mayer

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 26, 2013
To recognize the fact that John Mayer has not been executed calls into doubt our entire conception of history.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Invisible architecture

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 24, 2013
Despite apparent affinities, cinema's kissing cousin is not TV but the hotel.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A moment in The Exorcist where the shattered body of a meddling priest lies at the bottom of a staircase next to which is written FIGHT PIGS as of course it should be

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 2, 2013
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A guillotinable mass of lame

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 29, 2013
Sincerity is terrifying and beauty is nothing but the backwash of terror.

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