Soft Targets: V.2.1

by Rachel Kushner, Soft Targets

When Soft Targets launched its first issue in 2006, The New York Times , Artforum and other major cultural media covered its debut, calling this "excellent Brooklyn-based journal" of poetry, artwork, theory, short fiction, sound and other ephemera "impressive, substantial, and wide ranging." This second volume follows up with contributions from renowned philosopher Alain Badiou, Prix Gouncourt winner Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Alexander Kluge, Chris Marker, Henri Michaux and the anonymous Paris-based political collective TIQQUN, along with artwork by John Waters, Yto Barrada, Christian Marclay and Nathalie Djurberg, among many others. Featuring the work of many of the brightest members of our creative aesthetic and political culture, Soft Targets is a dynamic meeting place. According to its editors, it is "the tightest of rings; a narrowing, and not widening, gyre; neither a stately pleasure dome, nor the expansive hunger of a corporation. Soft Targets is a colony."

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker Prize- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten book of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her novels are translated into 26 languages. She lives in Los Angeles and wants you to know that if you're reading this and curious about Rachel, whatever is unique and noteworthy in her biography that you might want to find out about is in her new book, The Hard Crowd, which will be published in April 2021. An excerpt of it appeared in the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20....