“Is there then, some way for the resistance of the oppressed to become effective, and for what’s intolerable to be definitively removed? Is there some way for the mass of singularities and atoms that we all are to come forward as a constitutive power, or must we rather accept the juridical paradox that constitutive power can be defined only by constituted power?”
This and many other ideas discussed in translation by Tony Negri and Gilles Deleuze.
Fictionaut interviews Ramon Collins, cartoonist and writer: “I honestly believe Micro & Flash stories are online fiction’s future. It’s the way people read. The phenomenon has something to do with the TV-20-second attention span and the decline of reading comprehension.”
The final hours of @MayorEmanuel. Winning an election, feeding Quaxelrod bread crumbs, double fisting beers, crowd surfing to the stage for a victory speech, contending with the sucking vortex of an alternate universe … all in a hard day’s work.
“The security official and his supervisor were human beings who obviously wished they could behave decently, but they were powerless: stymied by a rulebook.” Richard Dawkins writes about rulebooks and their brittle disposition towards failure.
‘Robert Kennedy smelled the water from the pool in his hair and the fresh sardines. “Son of a bitch. The whole world’s a son of a bitch,” he said. He sprinted towards the pool and cannonballed in. Sandy barked wildly.’
Bobby Kennedy and his Sea Lion Sandy at QuickFiction.org. Five more excellent Quick Fiction stories can be found here.
Azad Essa’s thoughts on protests still underway in Africa and the Middle East. “Must a revolt be filmed and photographed to succeed?” … “Ignoring the developments in Africa is to miss the half the story.”
