Books
Published and forthcoming from Halabatuchi Press.
Housekeeping for Hallions
As a hallion if you don't want to do something, put it off one day at a time. You can always put it off again the next time you don't want to do it. Procrastination is a learned skill, not a flaw. It's how you find out what doesn't matter. Important things wait. Adoption of a hallionistic outlook necessitates living simply, cutting as many corners as possible. This book may not be of much help in achieving any of those.
Gutenberg Arís
Gutenberg Arís is both a literary object and a document of a particular cultural moment: the early years when a writer working alone could summon images from text and then turn to examine the strange partnership that made them possible. It is, in its small way, a record of the second Gutenberg moment — the return of the printing revolution, this time conducted through prompts, models, and imagination. Just as Gutenberg removed the scribes this revolution may well see the demise of the large publishing houses.
The Art of Strategic Apathy
The Art of Strategic Apathy is not laziness, but a skill. It is a cultivated practice of determining what deserves your energy and what doesn't. It's the philosophical underpinning of why you would keep the cracked mirror. A companion to Housekeeping for Hallions — where Housekeeping shows you what to do (or not do), Strategic Apathy explains the why and how of developing the mindset. How to care less about the right wrongs.
Marx in the Obscene
Marx in the Obscene is being made to pay from cradle to grave and beyond via inheritance tax, death duties, the taxing of what you leave behind. This obscenity is set in the context that 90% of everything is owned by the 10%. The plunder / outright robbery of you paying €4.00 for a coffee and the farmer earning 10 to 20 cents. Hence los meses flacos (the thin months), the annual period of seasonal food insecurity when coffee-farming households in Latin America struggle to meet their basic food needs.