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ARMED CELL 8
ARMED CELL 8
AN ACCELERATED ALPHABET...from SUN CYCLE
LAMENTATIONS
from INTROSPECTIVE DATA
from MERRY HELL
from ALMOST ENOUGH
WE FOUND LULZ IN A HAPLESS PLACE
ANNE LESLEY SELCER
SEAN BONNEY
DONATO MANCINI
SARA LARSEN
BRUCE ANDREWS
DAVID BUUCK
ARMED CELL 8
Edited by Brian [email protected]
Covers by Mayakov+sky Platformfrom Reddish Green Timomachia, anessay on capital and amphoteric valuemayakov-plus-sky.blogspot.com
Physical edition of 100Free
ARMED CELL 8 was first distributed at the Brian Ang, Donato Mancini, and Anne Lesley Selcer reading at La Commune Caf and Bookstore, Oakland, February 27, 2015. ARMED CELL 9 will appear in August 2015. Submit cover images and writing by the end of June 2015 for consideration.
An accelerated alphabeta mumbled picture
a ridiculous florescence of page after pagepeacocked on a green screen
as if each term flagrantly raised an objectionagainst its own denotative power
under local clouds
now its your turn to fall downfrom the love of the look
that turned politics to puddles turned it to feathers
slowed it to pollen slowed it to oil which shimmers in a slick
a scripto continua an angel wrotethen threw like a parachute into thin air
each corner held down by a small child who, unemployed & not yet signified sings,
empire is everywhere nothing happenseverywhere everything happens all at once.
ANNE LESLEY SELCER
from SUN CYCLE
I. Walking thru walls
One city constructs another city in reverse,
a thousand windows open, an immediate and disappearing library.
The suns a creep this week.
Force transforms form at exceptional velocity,
I arise from this accelerated archeology to spit in knowings eye.
II.
I wanted to throw the sun in the trash can,
I wanted its second nature.
I wanted to understand forms mimicry,
I dreamed of sexual violence too,
walking from gallery to junk store;
on everyones computer screen, that week
everything else walking right thru.
III.
The sun smashes me.
It unpetals me.
The sun slides its eyes all around me.
The sun reveals me, unearned.
The sun sorts me, battles me, surrounds
and impregnates me.
The sun is my main respondent.
IV. The meeting
We sat in a circle around an empty metal basket, a fallow fire pit.
It was above us, was all around, was at an angle to us,
we moved into & out of it, the sun was on every side.
I did not know if we would make a new city, a new law, or nothing,
or something precisely as we were, dans tous les sens.
I wanted to put the sun in the center.
V. Nouns by Bataille, compiled for Elliot Rodger
thing isparody isthing isform
body is sun isvehicle isfrenzy
lead isparody isgold isparody iscoitus isparody iscrime
origin isground isbase iscenter
car isclock ismachine isimage
sentence istracings issystem iscenters iscircles istotality islabyrinth
shoe istooth isnose islove
smell iseggs iseyes isroot islove
dog isstomach isgoose iswoman isjar isconfusion isvehicle islove
earth isanimal isman isresult iscause isanimal isman isearth iscoitus
man isothers isone isothers
girl ispresence isit isdarkness
love isvanity isdiamond israge isimage ismirror
I isindifference isher isme isI islove isher isshe isI isher isshe isforgetting
forgetting issubterfuge
man isspecter iscoffin
direction issun isground
tree isground isshaft issun
tree islightning isground islove
love iscloud iscloud isearth isstorm is the only rain was falling stones
sun ishand istree iseye
erection issun iscellar
eye issun iscadavers isreaction
face ispassion isdebauchery isindecency
nothing isentrails
ground iswater
idea isforce iseruption
organ isparts iseruption
deflagrations isheavens
fertility isdisaster
love isthroat
parody isblinding sun
I am the filthy parodyof the torrid and blinding sun.
I isthroat isgirl isI
you isnight
I isthroat isgirlyou are the night
you arethroat isgirl isthe night
blinding isviolating isnight issun
blinding issun isyou arenight
sun isempire isno sun setsever
____________All language in Nouns by Bataille, compiled for Elliot Rodger taken from Lanus Solaire by George Bataille with the exception of a line from Etel Adnans The Arab Apocalypse.
SEAN BONNEY
LAMENTATIONS
for Jacob Bard-Rosenberg
Our illnesses are mostly political illnesses - Peter Weiss
We greet the dark - Diane di Prima
in the days of our fiercest anger
the precision of beautythe joy of the whole world
soaked bread in their darknessenemies pressed their mouths on us
a snare is come among usthere are none to comfort us
*
Of music imprisoned, the insulted and truly wretched.Of the names of those responsible for the recent massacres.
On the numerology of birdsongOn riot replaced by birdsongOur persecutors swifter than eagles
They pursued us on the mountains. Laid wait for us in the wilderness.
And our collective vowels humming like drones. The invisible, whatever that is. As if it didnt hover above us. Announce itself with blue fire.
*
The law is a mouth. Glossolalia.
________________________________________________________________________
these towers and citiesthese desert plainsthese tasteful burningskies, what are theywhat has been forgottenin these shanty townsthese parks and legendssolid, bright, concealedstrange and distantghosts, our stark ghosts
pass the soul of your body like waterboiling water that scalds forever
*
It breathes, the law, and those it protects it sings inside, and they are like flowers, chaste and tranquil as glass.
It stares at us, the music of the law, and its fingers, they pluck us, as if we were strings, golden, and we are their songs, the inhabitants of the law.
And we have no foothold, and we stumble, backward and backward, hour by hour, as stars or buildings collapsing, into the abyss, of their hearts, the inheritors of the law, and we sing there, unimagined, in the ice of our silence, falling.
And their souls will flow like piss in the streets of the great city.
________________________________________________________________________
Say they have enclosed us in blank stone. You wake up, you open your eyes, is simple: we have been consumed like blood and water, and our language - you wake up, sibilants and syntax a jet of bleach and concepts. Think stuff up: the enemy is non-material, we are not.
Say they have choked us with black sugar. Ask who are these custodians of yesterdays rebellions - insist that it really happened, we are not at all imaginary. You wake up, you open your eyes - there is a border separates us, the deserving, the un-deserving dead. Post no miracles.
________________________________________________________________________
It is the stupid practice of our times to complain instead of acting. Jeremiads are the fashion. Jeremiah is found in all attitudes. He cries, he lashes, he dogmatises, he dictates, he rages, himself the scourge of all scourges. Let us leave the elegising clowns, those gravediggers of liberty. The duty of a revolutionary is to always struggle, to struggle no matter what, to struggle to extinction. - Louis-Auguste Blanqui.
five days without sleepthe law is fixed and burnswe who are captive hereeach night the same figureon the same road, stopsroaring, like a brainroaring out our ghostshyacinth and snap-flowermy ghosts, a river of bonesmy ghosts, narcissi myspinning, my laws, stay hereevil-doing falls like rain
*
remember itto take these tales as advicean organising vortex each sentence stoleneach word a double claw. Act now.
That looked the sun in the face and were not blinded - Lola Ridge
________________________________________________________________________
So anyway, insomniacs or the wandering dead sleep by walking through the department, yeh, through the golden city. Well screw them. The choir, if there is one, is a flock of ghosts. The chorus a mob of disenchanted sloganeers. Forget it. Take some sulphate, some hydrogen, whatever, elements, elementals, mash it all up and boil the invisible
the ecstasy of oxygen molecules the mad monks of Westminster
One was scried with swallows. One was split with scissors.
*
some grow in dust are not to be picked opponents of day and nights counter-light
every door is not locked - Ericka Huggins
Because we do not exist the years of our birth are stacked inside the shadows of our mouths like imaginary cities or the pits of heaven and other basic banalities.
And when they say we, they are only trying with their drivel to mold what the people think and how they think it. - Ulrike Meinhoff
We the liars. We the obedient, we the imperial teeth.No birds, no suits, no sacrificial spiders.This history passes through us like ghosts.Various acronyms. Nostalgia for electric colour.Black and murderous pink.
Say those rats. Say those rats have names say you know those names. You do not know those names. Say black powder say a lot of things. And then, a fascist victory, say that. And then. Say it seemed like a door was opened like just or a second and we hurtled through that door or was it things hurtled toward us I dont know and. Say it was just a cloud of powdered blood. Say you know their names and then suffer from beneath those names and live and tunnel inside those names and. Ask what becomes of the motherfucking broken hearted
*
Avoid melancholy.Tell a few jokes.Blow up Stonehenge.
________________________________________________________________________
apply gravity to your body raw water like butter actually made from your body, yes, meaning you, we, a force from the past & on the subject of flowers:
Who are these judges, who made them custodians? Of what? What are these things in the centre of their mouths, that ringed silence, that crushed clock, screams of dead and flying things. The human form, it frightens me, its scratched and monstrous aspects; plague clung to, as spirit of love, and spectres shriek like starlings in the streets of our devastated cities.
it is a storm of monstrous drums
the war has not been declared it only shrieksthe way ghosts shriek & ashes are the shrieks of ghosts areburnt water are skaldsof coins & lawful slumber
and scarlet stars of rotten silver
I want to never forget how I was forced to become a monster of justice and intolerance, a narrow minded simplifier, an arctic character uninterested in anyone who was not in league with him to kill the dogs of hell - Ren Char
________________________________________________________________________
there is a law it patrols the invisible is dark outside
there are comets as we decipher them as law or radio
as then the cities burn as ash as simple figures as the sky is an insult
name this city
it is a bone it isour bones creakas pearl fire will
split nets of streetsor bone it isno emergency
& this sentence un-pronouncedmust not make you bitter it has made you bitter
- it is our beauty, apocalyptica -
But for you it would be something of a duty in that you could perform in Tbingen the role of a waker of the dead. It is true that the Tbingen gravediggers would do their utmost against you. - Hlderlin to Hegel, 25 November 1795.
from INTROSPECTIVE DATA
DONATO MANCINI
Two years later a search-party had found them, hobbling along [through the jungle] on improvised crutches, toothless and suffering from half-healed fractures. It seems there was no calcium in the area. Chickens couldnt lay eggs, there was nothing to form the shell. Cows gave milk, but it was watery and translucent, with no calcium in it. (W.S. Burroughs)
Are wages adequate compensation for life spent at work?
Is human labour1 - purchased2 - extracted
Work its own reward?
Which of the following is a luxury1 - leisure time2 - inebriants (alcohol, soft drugs)3 - jewellery
Do you work harder than your friends?
Is the drop in a bucket1 - milk from a goats udder2 - rain from a leaky ceiling3 - coin from an almsgivers pocket
Are you tired emotionally, mentally or physically?
How long can I live on apples and bourbon?
Is foxglove edible?
At what point does sleeping-in become immodest?1 - 10:30 am2 - 12:00 pm3 - 3:00 pm4 - 5:00 pm
At what point does it become immoral?
If its not white guilt, what could it be?
Is a coma like a long nap?
Is the position that radical social change is impossible a radical position?
Indifference, apathy or accommodation?
Disaffection, contempt, outrage or resentment?
Should a gob of spit include phlegm?
Embrace. Negativity.
Hope. Keeps. You. Down.
Wish. You. A. Deep. Ambivalence.
Resist. Compulsory. Optimism.
Would. Rather. Not.
My. Oui. Says. Non.
Dedescribed.
Devoked.
Defeatured.
Decreated.
Dont. Say. Nothing.
If. You. Can. Cant. You. Will. Never.
Smells like wood like oil paint in the garret. Like baby flesh paint. The babytree is in bloom. Babies have blossomed on it from the beginning and forever. Rosy twilight. Babies withering ripening rotting on them. On the babytree ... The rustling babies. (U. Allemann)
How many times did you hear the word love today?
Does the word love1 - give solace2 - induce panic
Do you consult pop songs for relationship advice?
Have you ever been sexually happy?
Are you sexually attracted to happiness?
Would you have a child with an abortionist?
Are babies predominantly1 - repulsive2 - adorable
Do you patrol the boundaries of your sexual orientation1 - in a jeep2 - on a dromedary3 - stopping by woods on a snowy evening
When did tattoos, piercings and funky facial hair become the new power suit?
If the proposed minimum wage rise amounts to less than half the accepted living wage, is that irony?
Can you fight off a rapist ironically?
Can you revolt ironically?
Have you experienced love as self-hatred?
Who stuffed wet chewing tobacco into the top of my snorkel?
Do you know your way around the bottom of the lake?
Does your given name suit you?
Have you ever pretended you dont speak English?
Would you have chosen to be born?
SARA LARSEN
from MERRY HELL
For Helen of Troy, For the Women of the Paris Commune, For my friends, now.
the true meat
with limbs you had when you were
born these people are such a mob
who jeweled my hand when i became his spouse
who gemmed my hand when i became his spouse
the sirens are the call your own body made to itself to come home
but he refused tied to a pole.
this being civilization and all.
salty
now i tell you the be gemming of underworld word
lilys & boarded-up windows mark this fallow
thanatos and eros in the centerline of my bod ies cant breath
em pyre
consumes all that is sacred but i have now dived on my own volition deep into briny Aegean greenwaters
waters to drown out a blood beat i saw my life crumble up like a broken mirror
and my face dis appe ar AIAIAI It is the turn of the year.
Bookended by Iphigenia and Clytemnestra
what is owed is fabul ous some say, Iphigenia was not on my boat
some s ay her body on slaughter alter some sa y boun d up like a perfect book
that all these soldiers gonna spend out on me
my daughter of LIGHT who falls into the a byssss of mat ter
we tore off the kredemna tore off our virginity our husbands
and we thre w them under our asses
sea light.
rosemary oilscuttling trees
did i drown
in a boat
between wor lds
Queen of the underground there in your silk fatale
dead flora
Love knows no body
Love for Loves sake is divine
all of this time what is owed is based on despair betrays what must be fed to exist rather than existence itself
existence itself is equal
I wont forget to put a rose cap on your grave Lady Death.
BRUCE ANDREWS
from ALMOST ENOUGH
C-c-c
You want rights? nationbuild!
redneck fiscal spreadsheet undiscipline
RPGs rocket-propelled grenades we reguarantee
assange hitting below the borscht belt
econo glocks to shame fee-splitting mob
skirt detox / homeland detox, model citizen on steroids
money meant anti-downward snacks as ridicule
Libya bleeds just like us, joke guns market the typically
kidnap limo, the phrase polo mogul
big troubles with non-union NAFTA trashcan
autopsy // queen // democracy
nixonish puccini, dollar-sniffing dogs
felon glitter FICA to slur into capital flight
murder by passport, enema by deskclerk
smear gun veto travesty
gangsters moll, kit form
Booth goof, my quislings, that pouting kingdom
now to Mao Tse-tung Waziristandardizing the go-to SWAT team
dancing a brown Trickle-Up Economics
Kalashnikov tee-totalling rebel, crasscultural game-based Fidelista
big business is my child abuse palestinian start-ups
no, we call it fiscal underachievement
rhetoric raptor desires to be associated with people of power
bankruptcies are up because its easier
motorizing bombthreats, domination rests its case
lets plan a felony, we call them Democrats
or maybe just cronyism, shabby patriotic kill by rocket fire
bash the white man to execute me extrajudicially
crime dummy maladetto one bad cop can kill many Lenins
buyless in gaza, beat your leader into unconsciousness
experts in oppressing liberal-democratic bacon-cheeseburgers
Black Chicago called North Mississippi
disabling enemy machine guns can circumnavigate money
its irrational & illogical to assume that he did not know protesters were being targeted
What Clich Becomes A Legend Most?
Christ came back to collaborate with the fascists
. . . algae . . .
Boogie Down spy shit bigots into saints
consumer abject suicide quote by economy unquote
nazi skinhead freak, kill your superiors
cop pig slink with a deadly weapon
no catastrophes in society, usurpers unionized maquilladores all nationalistically goofusd
sparta bookish global finance homeboys cadillac freefire impresario of ethnicity
standback weapons or fatwahs, strikebreakers not enough foreigners
outside pressure causes extra repression, horrific enough to trigger more pressure, etc.
take responsibility for whites awkwardness
putin showy treason flesh, aryan cues patriotically more
hes cheesing by democalypse to make our country crushed
spin doctors back off, diaspora-ized peaceheads?
you are tax drunk, you are not a Green Beret
Aunt Jemima less authoritarianize paycheck banter pout
blame it on my bomb
breadlines, unite! got your emirate?
yell white power during the assault
agit-dub tionalization to transcitify dont lithuanianize me!
massive sleaze, soldier-of-fortune problem-solver
SHOPRITEs Ham ads interrupting Malcom X
Israel is Iran
Stalin repo, a fame-whoring social climber
numb naughtiness redneck Shah bolshevik not done yet
Democratatorship, anti-commie slam unguent money down
amererericans, gun replicas, tax axis hate state
rage of conspiracy, Generalissimo police itch swastika santa claus
no tax drunk, the insurgent we
haiti snacks on status quo, suez oomph to mush up power structure
Down with the Next President
Constitution dissolves in battery acid you pour on prisoners
gringo upshot frenemy of the state, New Left disarmament
the rich get to prevent change, class maximization woke with one vote
hail to the chef // hail to the shit
nation = one big morality play
trotskyistic revenue filth injustice gets fed up
laissez-faire // covert
displeasingly hammy theatricals after fixate
dont stop the zorro, hamhocks, we are the assassins
debenturatorial test-ban quisling pretty easier
force gets better, guilty sunbelt grabfest money
national sovereignty a license to slaughter your people
state socialism serum lizard, global spider, brixton wrongs
smacked-out crowd, homeless in the Third International
arrest the bankers with no glocks, buffoon a rightification for freedom
this joke occurs in your checkbook
no more peacetime teddybears, violence expresses . . . inequality
no world without helicopters
bilk clients political scientist, no
shoot the fuck-it, mex-zetanification
sorry anarchist class structure in ammunition
sniffing world capital to get high
bourgeoisicals pushing Maoist nostalgia
nazi goof talk about military justice!
surprise, megarich to benefit
rule & ruin / ruin to rule activism interpellates too
shiek chic, bookies riot police pose for pictures
unemployment is structure
sleazeballs legal tender
make a nation for me
DAVID BUUCK
WE FOUND LULZ IN A HAPLESS PLACE
for & after JD, DM, AB, AK, MB & the sound team
does form make demands?
wait, what?
to make gestures quotable
the better business bureau asks.
An Oakland poet in San Francisco.
A San Francisco poet in Oakland.
(or indeed the police force, in current procedurals
Owns a stapler gun.
(comes into its own mode of representation
accounting vs.recounting
(it is rather bureaucracy whose epic is sung before us)
An actual explosion, in an actual shingle factory.
in 1913.
in 1934.
but thats not my File
Transfer Protocol
would you prefer a reference
to Shelley here?
or to the licorice strike?
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
screams Al Pacino, in a Raiders jacket.
but: The image is always in the present tense.
A group of rich people, caring about the environment.
to get to the other side.
the synopticon asks.
An Oakland poet in Santa Cruz.
An Oakland poet in Davis.
problem: articulating an us
that makes we happen
beyond us-ies.
thus
the where of we vs.the when of we
and: that one guy who wont shut up.
to describe
the gesture
of falling silent
of heads down on the sidelines
of neck bent into the screen-feed
of looking over ones shoulder
to talk behind ones own back
Problem: the possibility of communal speech (poetry) in the absence of a we.
but: we
there is no we
let us separate ourselves now
and: our capacitors, their selves
so: affect looks like what ?
to fetch some aluminum bats.
a re-enactment of the Battle of Oak Street.
in 1946.
in 2013.
wait, what?
what rhetorics of temporality to describe it
its having been
tighten up! tighten up!
the view from above asks.
A New York poet in Oakland.
An Oakland poet in Danville.
Youth vs.the youth
WOUNDED KNEE! WOUNDED KNEE! WOUNDED KNEE! WOUNDED KNEE!
screams Little Joe Killsright, through a black and red bandana.
and then I became
and this is in Vegas
okay, this is an arrow
right now, this is me, see but I dont think about, yknow, taking up
a revised Rihanna song, yknow, heh she basically latched on
(youtube, Michelle, get fit, all the kids, and so)
to what happens in certain communities
(diseases, fat people, see what Im sayin, theres no thought, no job, and so I need)
had to financialize the climate
in order to save it
and then I got board certified
Problem: emotion recollected in tranquility. Fuck tranquility.
but: ordering a Jameson with a single iced cube. Recollecting that.
to concretize disgust. as a positive way of saying No.
the certifying board asks.
An Oakland poet in Vancouver.
An Oakland poet in Kansas City.
in 1985.
in 2014.
A group of rich people, foraging in a forest.
100 fire extinguishers, aimed at the approaching line.
Beyond the kettle,
another kettle,
called work.
hedging debt
on the no futures
market.
such that: All Drones Are Zimmerman.
But not only are my desires not being met, they're not even my desires.
Learning from Las Vegas vs.Learning from Lagos
in 1977.
in 2006.
would you like a reference
to Koolhaus here?
or to the defense of the RCA?
But plausible deniability is itselfan architectural choice, one made manifestnot only in procurements and mergers,not only in networks and protocols,but also in drywall and concrete and stock photography.
Tho some bodies are forgotten in the language compound
Problem: whos not in the photo?
cuz theyre tools, questions are
the Arab Street thinks vs.the Oakland Street thinks
Last night the DJ fueled our fight
& today, hazy & blasted
hustling for the bail fund
red and black laughter
red and black nights
But how does it make you feel?
the morning after.
at $160 an hour.
a pedagogy of space and time vs.the state and the clock
but structures
dont take
to the street
, cuz
when youre pushing the sound
system up the street
in SF you gotta
watch for the tracks
& give up yr umbrella
to cover the battery
as the rain falls
on Wall Street West
in advance of the pepper spray
cuz when the skirmish
lines out front
others can sneak
in the back & banner drop
which is when you want
the speakers to kick
& the mic to crackle
the call for medics
to help wash out the eyes
of all who cant see
the paint on the walls:
Run comrade
the old worlds
behind you
That night I/we pulled out a piece of paper and started writing, well, of course we had just stimulated each other, had just put ideas first, had just created a void we were all dying to fill! The desire to make something, to solve what was stumping all this came from we. Desire. So yes, I ... did the actual writing ... but desire came with the we.
experiments in representation
the syntax of fighting to actually win
A group of rich people, cleaning a swimming pool.
and who counts what, by what metrics.
beyond the clicks, the slowly fading pings
a series
of data
packets
constitutes
a set trans-
versing
the field,
spreadsheets
on the grass,
alas, pigeon
shit occludes
the equation
no work today
so get to it
and by won I mean owned
RUBY RIDGE! RUBY RIDGE! RUBY RIDGE! RUBY RIDGE!
screams Steve Kurtz, through a Lackawanna surgical mask
and: better meetings.
wait, what?
Watching
a video
of Lumumba
on a phone
made of Congolese
colton
face paint selfie
phone swiping technology
(uptalked) I think it opens the door to bringing counter-surveillance into fashion?
to capture the hot new look on the street.
the feds ask.
A Ugandan poet in Vancouver.
A black bloc poet at the MLA.
When is I? When are she? When is we?
That guy? Hes his own tendency.
Broadside fetishist.
Backstabber.
Hand-wringer. Online commenter.
Problem: what I heard was image-captured off your feed in response to that
other thing ppl were talking about, and that being considered politics.
and: it is. even if Id rather etc.,
yet: we need toilets and a kitchen
A group of rich people, each with their own personal philosophies.
FERGUSON! FERGUSON! FERGUSON! FERGUSON!
screams Lil Bobbie Hutton, buried in a hoodie
But how does it make you think?
the riot as collective bargaining.
To bottom-line the booze run.
The multitude (of seven) asks.
An Oakland poet in Philly.
A rich poet in Oakland.
then
soon well have
a 3D printer
for all the tools
we need for nights
like this
now what, wait?
But how does it make you smell?
the % of Silicon Valley janitors living in Oakland vs.the % of Oakland cops living outside of Oakland
tighten up! tighten up!
would you like a reference
to Angela Davis here?
or to Freedom TV Nyamubaya?
Envy those meetings? Good.
As a feminist I want you to drool for such a we.
in 1982.
in 2015.
Problem: sick of poetry, not finding another form for this roving disgust.
Like escaping a fire in a building that you designed.
while hating metaphors and prosody
then running back in, to log back on and
yet: those stabbing keyboard triplets.
the oh shit here it comes.
tighten up! tighten up!
Everyone in the street
is in this fucking dance
in & across the intersection
references that my friends get
vs.
references that poets get
Whose we to act
as if of us
so remember
to carry
your meds
in their original
labeled
bottles
in case
you get
snatched
now pick up a tool
and fucking garden.
____________Includes material/nudges from Caroline Bergvall, Miguel Gutierrez, Brecht (translator unknown), Robbe-Grillet, Dionne Brand, Jereon Mettes (translator Vincent van Gerven Oei), Henri Lefebvre (translator unknown), Susan Parenti, Eric Hobsbawm, Ingrid Burrington, Fredric Jameson, Donato Mancini, the Carville Annex Instagram feed, & god knows what else. (& by god I mean Roque Dalton)