Colonization isn’t so much the extraction of wealth from a subdued land to the conqueror’s as it is the shrinking of experience to fit the perspectival frames of the conqueror; it is the imposition of a single way of knowing, a single regime of noticing, a single apparatus for meaning-making – so that what is …Continue Reading >>>

Once, we supposed that by burrowing into the world, and taking things apart, we would eventually arrive at pure essences, at unbequeathed virgins hidden behind thick layered harems of dust, grime and exactitude. At the heart of the matter. When we ‘arrived’ there, it wasn’t a holy calmness we found: in the material world, the …Continue Reading >>>

One of my fondest passions is gazing at the wilds beyond our fences, at the impossible sentences our culture cannot frame, and basking in the yawning hymn of a cosmos too magical for words. Dwell on it for a moment, if you will. Consider that you are not the perfunctory equations of sanity and melancholy …Continue Reading >>>