Organising the Present – Part Two

Reflections on Political Formalism in Hwang Sok-yong’s At Dusk and Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out In the Name of Conrad For Kim Minwoo, the way out of the infinite reconstitution of evermore intensive capitalist social relations is death: one he embarks on with others, who end their worlds together, a faint if unsettling vision ofContinue reading “Organising the Present – Part Two”

Completing the Unresolved Plot of History

Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out My article Completing the Unresolved Plot of History: Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out has been published on Tom Pazderka’s Substack, A Secret Plot. The piece considers the combination of mythology, capital, and furious readers in Piglia’s eerily anachronistic and offbeatContinue reading “Completing the Unresolved Plot of History”