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Review of Soham Patel’s to afar from afar
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Review of Soham Patel’s to afar from afar

by The Accomplices
written by The Accomplices

A great review of to afar from afar by Soham Patel is up on The Bind.

From “The Apparitions of Language: Reading Soham Patel’s to afar from afar“”

6. Meanwhile, the poem “in airplane” finds chaos and confusion in the presence of violence. Drone patterns interrupt the structural integrity of language. Thoughts form in strata. A triangle breaks the poem into clusters. Lines are arranged in ambiguity. I felt briefly lost. I didn’t know in which direction I was supposed to move, what path my eyes were supposed to follow. “in airplane” evokes this feeling of uncertainty, brought on by the presence of a foreign object. More than that—a drone, a symbol of American intervention, the icon of globalization, of violence committed from a distance.

to afar from afar

Review of Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere
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Review of Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere

by The Accomplices
written by The Accomplices

Laura Hyunjhee Kim’s Entering the Blobosphere is reviewed on Empty Mirror.

Mike Corrao, author of Man, Oh Man, writes:

Entering the Blobosphere reads like cultural theory that has been infected by an unknown organism. The subject of this investigation manipulating its own description. Much talked about, but its presence spectral, looming behind the writer’s ear. In the same manner as bell hooks, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Serres, Laura Hyunjhee Kim approaches theory not as an explanation of other art forms, but as an art form of its own.

The text’s movement is arrhythmic yet soothing. It shifts between investigation, explanation, and musing. Each transition introduced by large typesets and mutated epitaphs. The movement of the text never feels unwarranted or dishonest. It behaves in the same manner as its subject. The cellular blob attempts to understand itself. Beginning with confident dictations, then moving into an exploratory phase, then defining the details of its ontology.

Entering the Blobosphere