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Scott Esposito

Scott Esposito is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (with Lauren Elkin; Zero Books, 2013). His writing has appeared recently in Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and The Point. His criticism appears frequently in the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post.



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The Last Redoubt

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November 2014

Scott Esposito

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November 2014

As they say of politics, I have found essay-writing to be the art of the possible. Certain work can only be done in those...

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February 2014

Another Way of Thinking

Scott Esposito

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February 2014

I. There is no substitute for that moment when a book places into our mind thoughts we recognise as our...

To write about Korakrit Arunanondchai is to be in hot pursuit The first day we were meant to have this interview, he was out of reach, freediving off the reefs of Ko Tao When I travelled to Bangkok in 2018, to see the inaugural Ghost festival of video and performance that he had curated, for a book I was working on, I followed friends to performances around haunted ta-khian trees and drag parties in bank vaults in hopes of tracking him down In London a year later, I found him carrying the chef Angela Dimayuga like a newlywed into the nightclub at the top of the Standard Hotel Whenever I have succeeded in sitting down with him, I leave with an impression familiar from viewing his work: the joy of immersion into his oblique and mysterious logics, grasping the iridescent tail of several interconnected ideas   Contingency is the force that drives Arunanondchai’s sprawling oeuvre of video, performance, painting and installation, which roams through personal relationships, political upheaval and cosmological concerns His videos, often the centrepieces of exhibitions, combine found clips with drone and handheld footage filmed in collaboration with director Alex Gvojic Religious artefacts, veterinary surgeries, news broadcasts and highlights from reality TV are interleaved with slow and sublime cinematic action, sewn together by Arunanondchai’s distinct poetic voice and grounded in a close relationship to location In these major works, titled Painting with History in a Room Filled With People with Funny Names 1-3 (2013-15), With History in a Room Filled With People with Funny Names 4 (2017), and No History in a Room Filled With People with Funny Names 5

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August 2014

Scott Esposito

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August 2014

Scott Esposito is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (with Lauren Elkin; Zero Books, 2013). His writing has...

Negation: A Response to Lars Iyer's 'Nude in Your Hot Tub'

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September 2012

Scott Esposito

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September 2012

I do not know whether I have anything to say, I know that I am saying nothing; I do not know if what I...
Art's Fading Sway: Russian Ark by Aleksandr Sokurov

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May 2012

Scott Esposito

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May 2012

I have often fallen asleep in small theatres. It is an embarrassing thing to have happen during one-man shows, and I am certain that...

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Interview

Issue No. 9

Interview with Rebecca Solnit

Tess Thackara

Interview

Issue No. 9

Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, like many of her books and essays, is a tapestry of autobiographical narrative, environmental and...

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September 2013

To Sing the Love of Danger

Adnan Sarwar

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September 2013

The Gulf War made my first year at Towneley High School uncomfortable. White lads taunted us Pakistanis with pictures...

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Issue No. 3

Fifteen Flowers

Federico Falco

TR. Janet Hendrickson

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Issue No. 3

To Lilia Lardone Summer was ending. The air already smelled like smoke, but it still looked clear, sunny. The...

 

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