Hostis 1

by Various

Hostis is a negation. It emerges devoid of ethics, lacking any sense of democracy, and without a care for pre-figuring anything. Fed up with the search for a social solution to the present crisis, it aspires to be attacked wildly and painted as utterly black without a single virtue.

In thought, Hostis is the construction of incommensurability that figures politics in formal asymmetry to the powers that be.

In action, Hostis is an exercise in partisanship – speaking in a tongue made only for those that it wants to listen. This partisanship is neither the work of fascists, who look for fights to give their limp lives temporary jolts of excitement, nor martyrs, who take hopeless stands to live the righteousness of loss. Hostis is the struggle to be dangerous in a time when antagonism is dissipated.

This is all because Hostis is the enemy.

The first 100 copies of this journal have been printed with sandpaper covers (we couldn't do more because it was chewing up our equipment!).

78 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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Reviews

[xDEAD ENDx · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the writing in here borders on "provocative to the point of being stupid," (e.g. "communism" being everyone having all the material bullshit) but I have appreciation for it nonetheless. There's a number of ideas I would like to see fleshed out a little more (e.g. a lack of caring to discriminate between ethics and morals, the preference to fight on the field of "politics" rather than "ethics"). I think some of the ideas here have potential, but unfortunately this journal seems incomplete right now.

[yarrow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I want to give this project a higher rating, primarily because the introduction gave me a lot to think about, and I think made some potentially interesting provocations, but they were just that: provocations. I found the rest of it to be fairly lackluster. I agreed with the argument put forward by the Tom Nomad piece, but it needed a SERIOUS editor. Its hard for me to evaluate poetry, so I don't have much to say about the rest.

[clinamen · Rating 4 out of 5]

All in all some very thought-provoking stuff here, specifically the Tom Nomad essay and the introductory piece describing a politics of cruelty. The prevalent typos get annoying but the ideas are sufficiently intriguing to make that a marginal concern.

[Rui Coelho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting provocations, I`m curious to read Hostis 2 (if I manage to put my hands on it).