The Other Citizen: Recent Episodes
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Brandon LaBelle reads from his recent book "The Other Citizen".
The book tracks the hopes and losses, struggles and utopian desires of what Brandon LaBelle terms “the floating subjects” of contemporary life. Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, the work takes aim at systems of exclusion by paying homage to the creative solidarities and pirate imaginaries spanning the globe. Narratives of friendship and survival, threadbare endurance and tender resistance - from lost teenagers struggling in the maze of neoliberalism to secret gatherings of artistic bandits to those caught between borders of nation-states. These tales emerge as frontiers of invention that, when stitched together, outline the force of an anarchic citizenry. "The Other Citizen" is a moving call for exiting the new norm of crisis.
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"The night spills its deep thoughts; it is so pressing, this unease. The journey of other narratives, encounters, like a feverish tapestry stitched from the crossing of boundaries..."
Brandon LaBelle reads from the third chapter of his recent book, "The Other Citizen".
Brandon LaBelle reads the second chapter of his recent book, "The Other Citizen":
"Between, a Spidery Federalism".
Brandon LaBelle reads the first chapter of his recent book, "The Other Citizen": "The Square That Spreads Itself"
Shall we play dead?
Shall we run?
Shall we find the exit?
Shall we continue to dream?
Shall we honor the fallen?
Shall we storm the gates?
Shall we capture the flag?
Shall we wait?
Pause
Hesitate
Occupy
... "Can we imagine the making of a relationship, to find solidarity with what may upset the lines of the body?"
Brandon LaBelle reads the Prelude from his recent "The Other Citizen".