‘There was no sweetness in the air that day: the corpse gave off a terrible stench’.
Pierre Clastres was a young French anthropologist whose book, Chronique des indiens Guayaki, described the time he spent among some of the stone-age tribes who then still lived in the jungles of Paraguay and Venezuela. It was published in 1972 and among the people intrigued by it was Paul Auster, wh…
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
