Counterpoetics | Reading Capitalism and Schizophrenia in Nablus
This month's offering from Ceasefire's poet-in-residence.
Columns, Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:08 - 0 Comments
By Dominic Fox
The third time again
as tragedy
in fixed oscillation
a well-read commander
connects
theory with practice
flows of aggression
diagrams
of violation
architect a nowhere-
differentiable rubble
Dominic Fox is a writer, poet and musician working in London. He has published a work of philosophy, 'Cold World: The aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria' (Zero Books, 2009) and a collection of poetry, 'Half Cocks' (Intercapillary Editions, 2011). He performs and records shoegazing folk-rock as "w/trem", and blackened experimental metal as "Spiral Jacobs" (an album 'Haintology' is available).
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