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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

"I am exercising my state and federal constitutional rights including the 1st, 4th and 5th amendments."

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 8, 2012
P: Do you know a man named ____________ (name redacted)?
Socialism and/or Barbarism

"a disease that would reveal itself to be incurable: the ever more widespread and pressing war of women"

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 7, 2012
"if the paternal authority that sometimes manifests itself in a merited spanking was to lessen, the family would go to ruin.”
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Do yoga and vote

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 6, 2012
Huff the fumes of the bile of your enemies from a garbage bag and vote

Socialism and/or Barbarism

World Melodrama: All That Heaven Allows, 1955

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 6, 2012
A deer that stalks the scenes of their coupling like a mute, dewy nightmare.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Rome, 1974

By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 3, 2012
Mothers spat at cops and cops spat at mothers. The south spat at the north and the north spat at the south. Rome spat at itself.
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsNovember 1, 2012
Oh go to hell.    
Socialism and/or Barbarism

As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 31, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28   / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 25, 2012
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Silten wares

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 22, 2012
  The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt   It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks /…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

3 B's for M

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 22, 2012
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 21, 2012
With the pathos of uplift characteristic of the Progressive era, the nickelodeon was hailed (or condemned for not fulfilling its proper function) as ‘democracy’s theater’,…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

World Melodrama: Nobody's Children, 1950

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 21, 2012
“It’s needlessly cruel.”  Watching Nobody's Children is something like watching four people drive a car to the edge of a cliff, get out, and push…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944

By Evan Calder WilliamsOctober 9, 2012
Omnia sunt communia, especially a century's worth of tears and bareback horseback riding.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 1

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 25, 2012
When our headlights raked the waiting woods along a curve, their eyes, clouded over with glaucoma, peered back, unstartled, ravenous, dull as milk.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Double header

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 25, 2012
Every film should come in a pairing to reveal its salient differences.  Such as height of font.  And type of building that is on fire. …
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 12, 2012
releasing doves / dollars

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