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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

Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 12, 2012
This could only mean that the house in which we stood was not only vampire but cannibal and curator.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

world / effect / he he he

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 12, 2012
Somebody starts playing / funeral march on a bugle in the background / for a quarter of corporate / student athletes
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 11, 2012
especially when there are Montpellier Armoires - yes, plural… - around, which, we were to learn later, start at $3495 and are notoriously resistant to small arms fire
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Desecration Hardware (Project Introduction)

By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 10, 2012
It is also, coincidentally, as if history vomited in its mouth and breathed it back down into its lungs.
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsSeptember 5, 2012
We gather around a hole, and though the fingers are worn to stubs in holding fast through the storm, still,  thank God, bloody still the…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Crisis and domestic work (On self-reduction, shoplifting, and other forms of gender war)

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 20, 2012
Domestic work today means to literally give over your own life to that of others (kids and husband), to their spaces, to their times, to their rhythms.
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 19, 2012
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Seriously, go to hell

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 18, 2012
What a coincidence! I was just going to suggest that the young jobless should impale Prince Charles' head on a 20 foot spike and raise it over Westminster Hall, as was done with Cromwell's head.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

This trial is a “so-called” trial. And I am not afraid of you.

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 17, 2012
"The art of creating the image of an epoch does not know winners or losers." Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, saying something of extreme importance Infamy to any…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 17, 2012
From clouds of toxic gas to make bodies run blind to a cloud of dust in which they shoot blind at running bodies.
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 16, 2012
1934, Minneapolis.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

and pour the coal on the street

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 16, 2012
"In the coal drivers strike, we did not have enough pickets at the beginning of the walkout to successfully close all the yards that were…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A sentence that should be the opening words of a very dark speculative fiction concerning America after 120 years of birth crisis

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 16, 2012
Gesturing at the breeding pens, Burton said: "Soon this will all be redundant, and that will be a very exciting day." [See here for the…
Socialism and/or Barbarism
By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 15, 2012
Socialism and/or Barbarism

"it's blessed queer!" "It is blessed queer!" he agreed. "It's damned queer!"

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 15, 2012
a queer knowledge remained of wet, peery eyes
Essays & Reviews

Objects of Derision

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 13, 2012
Cop comedies invite us to laugh at the terror police induce by being both less and more than human

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