Material Witness Crudités Brooklyn Rail

Brooklyn Rail

Samen met onder meer de feministische punkgroep Pussy Riot en het kunstenaarscollectief Chto Delat uit Sint-Petersburg behoort Kirill Medvedev tot de jongere generatie schrijvers en kunstenaars in Rusland die zich verzet tegen het regime van Vladimir Poetin

She likes explication

to the world’s astonishment

are constituted by pluralities—by events both present and past

Material Witness Crudités Brooklyn RailAditi Machado A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non human world. In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world as the quotidian unfolds. The line between observer and observed blurs as non human agency reveals itself, its own kind of witnessing. In her long poem "Concerning Matters Culinary" inspired by the first Latin cookbook, Machado activates