To mark the launch of the journal and in anticipation of the first issue’s open call, Lars Iyer will be reading from his recently published book, My Weil (Melville House Publishing, 2023) in conversation with Adam Potts and Lyn Hagan

A quote from this book on the theme of total creative destruction will be used as a prompt for writers and artists to respond to for their short form submissions:

“THE PLAN IS TOTAL CREATIVE DESTRUCTION... A YEAR ZERO RESET, JACOBIN STYLE. A NEW FINANCIAL TRANSACTION SYSTEM TO REPLACE THE BANKS: THATS WHAT IS COMING. AND A NEW GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM, TO MANAGE THE TRANSITION. BIOMETRIC IDS FOR ALL.  THE DIGITALISATION OF ALL INTERACTIONS. A NEW TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEM, SO THE MAN CAN SATELLITE CONTROL US FROM AFAR LIKE LIVESTOCK”
 

Speaker’s:

Lars Iyer is the published author of six novels, which, by their formal experimentalism and subject-matter, are rooted in European traditions of literature, and have been linked by reviewers to Beckett and Bernhard. His writing is fundamentally comic and rooted in continental-philosophical and literary writings of the past century, reflecting his own intellectual background. Iyer is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University

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Adam Potts is an interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer who specialises in the philosophy of Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, and the areas of aesthetics, sound studies and the philosophy of music.   He has published on a range of topics including noise, listening, issues related to the practice of writing about sound and Blanchot's philosophy in relation to sound and music Potts is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of Education for School X at Newcastle University.

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Lyn Hagan is an artist and writer from Newcastle.  She has performed with a cat and mouse on board a zero-gravity flight with the Russian Space Agency, collaborated with a Mexican Mafia hitman on Death Row in San Quentin on a portrait of his life and crimes, and installed an EndOfDays film essay in a bunker at a prepper community in South Dakota who were more than prepared for Covid-19. She is currently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University where she is developing a post-apocalyptic archive of messages in textual and sculptural form.

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