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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

An exemplary revolt

By Evan Calder WilliamsMarch 4, 2013
Because we don't defend - we attack - there's no need to ask for the disarming of the enemy, just weapons for comrades.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A friendly reminder

By Evan Calder WilliamsFebruary 22, 2013
Our candidates found no place on any list. Subversives don't vote.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The flayed compass, or ENJOY / THIS / STRIP / BABY

By Evan Calder WilliamsFebruary 11, 2013
So that when a body throws itself onto the tracks / like a only a body would / it could be routed around / as only a body can
Socialism and/or Barbarism

2/8/13

By Evan Calder WilliamsFebruary 10, 2013
A short story.        
Socialism and/or Barbarism

1/30/13

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 31, 2013
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Socialism and/or Barbarism

1/29/13

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 29, 2013
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The rest are all Cleveland

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 25, 2013
It is a sin against the new world of mediocrity to be distinct or distinguished.  We are in the chain-store, neon-lighted era.  Almost every city…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 4

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 22, 2013
Off the edge of the highway, space is identical to the elderly, to their insatiable hunger for time, for all the wet of youth.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 13, 2013
The human itself becomes the hostis humani generis, the enemy of all humankind.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

To what lying necromancer have I not been a fortune?

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 24, 2012
Not even when the debt collectors signed the release form to collect the roughly 14 pounds of smoke worth salvaging from the fire.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 22, 2012
Outside, the streets were full, seriously fucking full, of wolves.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 2

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 20, 2012
The start of unfinished epic poems concerning the present situation, and its origins in the deafening plop of the third housing bubble, carved deep into the wallpaper of the Oak River Conference Room.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

the colorful flowery garment of the - guillotined

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 19, 2012
Engraving by Enea Vico I can easily think of the devil, the true reversed world of the divine world, the great world-shadow which marks off…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 6, 2012
Shimmering, taunting, dumb as a dewy rose set aflame with a lit fart.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Desecration Hardware, 3 (The Trestle Salvaged Table in Salvaged Black Finish)

By Evan Calder WilliamsDecember 4, 2012
Because, as they say, the only thing more dangerous than a fully grown chandelier is one whose children you’ve just threatened.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 13, 2012
In which Snake Plissken discovers something rather queer about both mermaids and what lies far, far beneath Venice.

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