Hearing in the Present Tense: On La Monte Young's Orphic Revolution
As if frozen in time, drone music has not developed as an art form since Young's Dream Houses, & has mostly been barbarized into a muddy ambience and cheap theatrics
The Lonely Eye
It seems to have been forgotten, in recent years, that the basic relationship of the artist to the world in modernity is one of estrangement.
Blackest Black Birthday
“She’s trying to paint me into a corner with her question mark army. She’s wanting to light my pants on fire. She seems super mad at me.“
Gnostalgia for the Present
The 17th series in the ongoing collaboration between George Quasha’s preverbs and Susan Quasha’s photographic work.
Four Poems from Tentacular Cities
Four poems from Émile Verhaeren’s Tentacular Cities (1895) translated from the French by Jacob Siefring.
Assembly Required at The Pulitzer
Is interactivity really the same freedom that art is supposed to help us access?
Excerpt from Wolf Baby
The wind howls against the trailer’s tin walls.
“You’re not special,” he says. “You’re not the main character.”
Then who is? But he doesn’t read fiction.
One Shot in Carlos Reygadas’s Cinema
“I'll begin with setting up the image…” Greg Gerke reflects on a shot in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón
Meetings with Max Jacob
Barry Schwabsky brings us Alberto Savinio's memories of the poet and painter Max Jacob.
Eight Poems from What Just Happened: lockdown poems
In my solitude / I’m stripped bare, but now / you’re here too, to some degree.
Why There Is No Good NFT Art (Yet?)
NFTs are the next stage in cultural phenomena the Caesura founding editors have been following for more than a decade.
from NO MATERIAL
An excerpt from Losarc Raal’s quasi-novella No Material, forthcoming from Black Sun Lit in 2023