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How Glossy the Plastic
How do colonial violences and cultural inheritances program the body? Ginger Ko’s How glossy the plastic inhabits and rewrites these codes: a poetics that is both mechanical and animal, “natural” and not.
Excerpt:
In the few seconds it takes to watch a horse with its neck snapped in half, head bouncing along its withers as it careens down a mountainside, in the few seconds it takes to feel a deep regret, in the few seconds it takes to forget the creature altogether when the lights flare their cones from above: pleasure made up of leisure and shame like slicing tubes width-wise for biscuits.
Excerpt:
In the few seconds it takes to watch a horse with its neck snapped in half, head bouncing along its withers as it careens down a mountainside, in the few seconds it takes to feel a deep regret, in the few seconds it takes to forget the creature altogether when the lights flare their cones from above: pleasure made up of leisure and shame like slicing tubes width-wise for biscuits.
21 pages, Chapbook
First published November 7, 2019
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