steve barbaro

~quinquennial re-watch ... rather rewarding :)
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The know your enemy podcast interviewed an entrepreneur presenting as disillusioned fascist, is this the third time? such fucking marks those guys

the AI email gmail is suggesting i send is actively referencing text from another recent email i sent, but assuming wrongly that this potential email's sendee knows the sendee of the other email that the AI's referencing ... does gmail-AI believe email 2 be a function of inherently cozy community ??

Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.

Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with.

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@graywolfpress.bsky.social @diggingpress.com @new-sinews.bsky.social @talkvomit.bsky.social

steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — new_sinews steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — a collection of poems with deep photomontage backgrounds — new_sinews

read a bit from PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE last night here in Chicago—been some months since the last time ... perhaps you might be interested in a copy! or else (alas) simply let this message slide down your timeline oblivionwardly :)
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You can now read "Eulalio Salmantino, 1921-2000" in the spring issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

Very grateful to Guillermo and Jacob.

The speeding; staring. Incessantly consummated sprawlscapes. Fastfood signage looming crypto-crucifixially. Long drive after long self-un-fulfilling drive down earsearing arteries.

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The bullshit asymmetry principle, or why Bannon's strategy to 'flood the zone with shit' is so hard to counter.

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this is a jellyfish bruschetta acct now ... all about the jellyfish bruschetta & in fact *only* about the jellyfish bruschetta ... & if it's not about the jellyfish bruschetta sincerest apologies but—just can't fuck with it :(

neoliberal professionalism lives on in a weirdly pure form in the contemporary anglosphere poetry world ... some of whose constituents are frenetically publishing self-promoting organizing readings self-commemorating etc.. all of which actions (even more bizarrely) are often utterly bleh

same. this one's got a lot of the same cleverness-at-all-costs.. it's an interesting reference point for the last samurai

almost finished reading DeWitt & Gridneff's YOUR NAME HERE—love the perspectival shifts ... the hyperclever cultural referents—well, i have lots of thoughts.. truly an E-Mail Novel ... seems to be present-tensely tackling a culture already ~20 years in the past; still, quite the dizzingly fun read

Oil painting with full landscape and walled city in the background. Foreground stone walled bath, no vegetation. Susanna nearly naked but crouching like an ancient Venus but with hand raised like Gabriel announcing whatever's written on her banderole. Four(!) Elders, one with a banderole all very actively moving about. Odd.

Susanna kneeling like Gabriel in an Annunciation and everybody with banderoles. What a weird Susanna and the Elders from Lorenzo Lotto, 1517. Florence, Uffizi.

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SEC. 20011. IMPROVING DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BORDER SUPPORT AND COUNTER-DRUG MISSIONS.   In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are appropriated to the Secretary of Defense for fiscal year 2025, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until September 30, 2029, $1,000,000,000 for the deployment of military personnel in support of border operations, operations and maintenance activities in support of border operations, counter-narcotics and counter-transnational criminal organization mission support, the operation of national defense areas and construction in national defense areas, and the temporary detention of migrants on Department of Defense installations, in accordance with chapter 15 of title 10, United States Code.

The $1 billion OBBBA line-item for DOD "border operations" and the "temporary detention of migrants" is being used by the military as a slush fund to set up private-contractor infrastructure to treat the United States as a theater of military operations (Region 27) in coordination with DHS.

disturbing but not-un-enlightening to trace the increasing adjacency of "alt-lit" types to unabashed fascists on the other app ... not terribly surprising—if you just auto-concede to lacking any sort of intellectual substance let alone coherence, you're bound to default to the zeitgeist's toxicities

Introducing Miss Translation | Bela Shayevich You may have noticed that this column feels a little incestuous (there is that Saskia Vogel again . . .) but that’s our world in translation. It’s small, and its actors, often by necessity, are prolif...

A poem of mine is the subject of the inaugural translation puzzle contest in N+1 Magazine’s Miss Translation column by Bela Shayevich

Funnily enough, when I wrote it my first thought was that it could never be translated, and it’s been translated into more languages than any other poem I’ve written

characteristic sentence from my novel-in-progress:

"One couldn’t help but think it was the very distinctive non-distinction which paradoxically if not-un-culture-specifically fueled the fame."

Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial How American tourists took over everything.

"We’re selling vibes, textures. A sunset on the hills in Chianti, riding a bike on an island in Sicily. Imagine us discussing it in parliament with an Italian accent: l’importanza del made in Italy. We use the English expression unironically. It’s aimed at Americans," Francesco Pacifico writes.

kinda, yes! lol ... proto-mechanical-seurat

venetian bottleglass window +++ concomitant shadow

A lot of alt lit folks feel like raccoons in the dumpster of literacy. They have a certain nocturnal luster but you know they’d probably give a life-threatening illness to your pet

mint🌿🌿🌿

zachary_gary ~ entries — new_sinews _ZACHARY GARY_fiction_ENTRIES_new_sinews_issue9_

a high lyric fictive sequence ... as assuredly rhythmic as it is philosophically rich ... "Entries" by Zachary Gary ... new_sinews issue9
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lisa_hsiao_chen ~ a_chronology_of_the_not-too-distant_future — new_sinews _Lisa Hsiao Chen_fiction_A CHRONOLOGY OF THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT FUTURE_new_sinews_issue9_

retrofuturistic diagnoses ... apportioned into clinically incisive increments ... "A Chronology of the Not Too Distant Future" by Lisa Hsiao Chen.. new_sinews issue9
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sending out some snailmail fiction submissions ... the paper; the staples ... the optimism ... the pagination! like it's ~2007