Essays

Maya Deren and the Skin Between Us

I want to open negotiations with that sealed moment, to push beyond the transparent barrier.

The End, or Something Like It

History is full of minor apocalypses that appear like regularly scheduled rehearsals for extinction.

Jimmie Durham

Caliban is Shakespeare’s anagram for the cannibal.

The Angel of History

Excerpts from a Hypothetical Life: Walter Benjamin in Mexico and Guatemala

Leviathan Dreaming

You are happy. You open your mouth and whale song comes out.

The Wedding Album

Like a slow motion flip book, the narrative unfolds through an accumulation of details.

55 Angels

Our eyes are befogged by an ever-present haze of our own making.

Man of the World

men of the world was a performance duo that I co-founded in 1991.

Richard Learoyd

Except for lovers and children, we are seldom given permission or opportunity to look so closely.