HeyJaredThe Archive of Patchy Studies
The Archive of Patchy Studies is a publishing platform for diagrammatic thinking, speculative writing, and reflections on creative labor under racial capitalism. Explore the interactive diagram at: https://www.d-act.org/newsletter/
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Climate Crisis as the Plot of a Character-Driven World (opens the original)
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The climate crisis is the plot of a character-driven world. Character and plot are old concepts in literary theory, dating at least to Aristotle’s distinction between mythos and ethos in the Poetics (Aristotle n.d.). The two have been understood as mutually constitutive ideas, as Henry James famously argued: “What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?” (James 1884). The opposition between “character-driven” and “plot-driven” fiction,
Minor Detours (opens the original)
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Scratch Tongue (opens the original)
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You say many name. It say few. Some live. Some die. Person, animal, worm, forest, grass, flower, leaf, seed, belly.They dig and scratch. They breathe. They laugh. They vomit. They rub skin. They squeeze fruit. River flow. Cloud float. Fire burn. Moon swell. Tree rotten. Hand dirty. What live with few name? What cut? What come back? This tongue give you what left.Scratch Tongue<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!22
No Refunds For Bad Weather (opens the original)
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Against the Fetish of Human-Written Funding Proposals (opens the original)
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