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Over a decade ago, Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman appealed to a new generation of feminists and critical thinkers.
PLATFORMS is a confessional essay-poem “in this season in microhell, in this jetlag of the heart.” Dissecting her own existence with philosophical enquiry, she wonders if “everyone must tend towards masochism or sadism?… or can one proceed, sexually, socially, without these ideas altogether?”
Addressed to an unnamed lover, this automatic, surreal text was composed on a psychedelic New York train journey in 2019, where the ghosts of her friends and tormentors are visible through the window: Kierkegaard, alcohol, Kant wrestling with the spirits, her late friend and contemporary Mark Fisher.
In light of a global “lockdown,” her visions of both Armageddon and Acid Communism now appear prophetic.
PLATFORMS is a confessional essay-poem “in this season in microhell, in this jetlag of the heart.” Dissecting her own existence with philosophical enquiry, she wonders if “everyone must tend towards masochism or sadism?… or can one proceed, sexually, socially, without these ideas altogether?”
Addressed to an unnamed lover, this automatic, surreal text was composed on a psychedelic New York train journey in 2019, where the ghosts of her friends and tormentors are visible through the window: Kierkegaard, alcohol, Kant wrestling with the spirits, her late friend and contemporary Mark Fisher.
In light of a global “lockdown,” her visions of both Armageddon and Acid Communism now appear prophetic.
48 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2020
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Nina Power
31 books85 followersDr Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou's On Beckett (Clinamen), and the author of several articles on European Philosophy, atomism, pedagogy, art and politics.
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June 30, 2020
This is a beautiful, sad 38-page dreamy, philosophical, experimental, amphetamine-fuelled prose-poem. I read it in the course of 3 nights, curled up in bed before going to sleep and it felt right to read it in this state of yawning tiredness. It expresses love, loss, loneliness, friendship, connecting/disconnecting, tortuous desire and love as/is death: unrequited, the end, new beginnings, reality blurring romance, what it means to be free and the concept of freedom.
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired." (Antony & Cleopatra, William Shakespeare).
There is no plot, I can only describe my impressions. It's good, its truthful...buy it and read it.
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired." (Antony & Cleopatra, William Shakespeare).
There is no plot, I can only describe my impressions. It's good, its truthful...buy it and read it.
July 26, 2020
Neo-Surrealism. Philosophy qua poet (both near impossible) struggling against the so called boons of finitude.
June 30, 2020
The best Morbid Book of 2020? A contender for sure!
August 10, 2020
Lysergic meanderings that all add up to a kind of truth I think.
July 17, 2020
I needed to be either more or less on drugs to enjoy this properly
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews