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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

Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 6, 2012
There lies the comic force of making the police those very objects of the gag, of watching them become repurposed and flailing props never designed for such use.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A capitalist prays to God against the dual threat of factory occupations and queer offspring

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 5, 2012
"... and please, make it so that the workers don't occupy my factory and, above all, that my son won't be homosexual!"
Socialism and/or Barbarism

A brief story of a woman in two frames, across nations and ocean, who falls from a tower and lands at a crossroads, from the sunset's fire to the intestinal unfurling of ghost sparks

By Evan Calder WilliamsAugust 5, 2012
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 11)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 24, 2012
We dream of windows all the way down or walls that encircle us to hold lives inside like the guts of a stabbed belly. If they are not pressed close by walls as hands press close we will gush forth.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 23, 2012
Bears with the force to bend bars dream of making iron flowers of the unwrought cages. A garden they roar a garden for us all.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Workers of all countries, call it a day!

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 19, 2012
"Some critics have called The Black Book a “pamphlet of insults directed against the market economy”. I accept this critical assessment with pleasure. Only from…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 18, 2012
It also does not think that the unity of time & action is of particular importance no not nearly as important as the unity of a world of matter & a rage of world
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 10, 2012
On that wall someone has written SMOKE PIGS! in spraypaint. It is not an ad for Pig Brand Cigarettes.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 7, 2012
In the next scene there is a slightly pink tundra, flecked with spots of black.  It is a probably the first slightly pink tundra in…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 6, 2012
this dismissal of the conjunction of flesh & land has always been the fatal error of armies & cartographers alike costing them both infinite losses in the grave fields of history
Socialism and/or Barbarism

& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 1 & 2)

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 5, 2012
a factory cannot edit itself it can only persist or collapse these are the basic conditions in which the wind carries the black & the wind in all directions
Socialism and/or Barbarism

I saw a man's skull on a tower

By Evan Calder WilliamsJuly 3, 2012
[S a/o B has been on unannounced hiatus while dealing with things non-internetable.  Now back.  Taking the skull back off the tower and back into…
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots

By Evan Calder WilliamsJune 7, 2012
Nor, for the record, did I go on a boozy spree and hypnotize Hollywood into installing bodiless voice-over narration in a good half of film noir.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 23, 2012
from this struggle that built a first breakwater of defense to let us catch our breath and keep our heads above the flood of labor, from this struggle we had to begin.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 21, 2012
When the flowers of the garden no longer smell sweet, when the leaves refuse to bloom and the birds to sing, the bosses of the garden go into crisis.
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Women in armed struggle

By Evan Calder WilliamsMay 20, 2012
The state is astonished. Men are astonished. We are astonished that they are astonished. And now we come to the problem.

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