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Kevin Brazil
Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Art Review, art-agenda, Studio International, and elsewhere. He is writing a book about queer happiness.

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Interview with Sianne Ngai

Interview

October 2020

Kevin Brazil

Interview

October 2020

Over the past fifteen years, Sianne Ngai has created a taxonomy of the aesthetic features of contemporary capitalism: the emotions it provokes, the judgements...

Essay

Issue No. 28

Fear of a Gay Planet

Kevin Brazil

Essay

Issue No. 28

In Robert Ferro’s 1988 novel Second Son, Mark Valerian suffers from an unnamed illness afflicting gay men, spread by...

21 April   Imagine a passport to get into the house Trump announces ‘the suspension of immigration, unprecedented measures in the United States’ One morning coffee, Nescafé classic; then another ‘These measures were not even taken during the Second World War’ Flights cancelled in Europe, borders again etc Apparently swallows can stay in the air for up to 10 months without touching down on land A practical system in 2020 At two coffees, the morning begins to have the minimum light required for the head of a living subject Somebody talks about swallowing up the world and then spitting it out No one from outside can come in Anybody is a potential enemy The bunker is an architecture of politics, as of March 2020 Apply the system to each state, then to each city, then to each neighbourhood, then to each house The house: nobody from outside can come in Banning immigration At most, only those from inside can come in But whoever is inside can’t come in, that would be too stupid, they’re inside already Passport shown outside, at the window, to be able to get the door open Jastrow’s ambiguous figure: the look is deceptive If you look to the left you see a duck; if you look to the right, a rabbit There’s not much point Oktoberfest beer festival cancelled Pope postpones World Youth Day to 2023 And petrol sold this Monday at negative prices The whole mix of new stories of the highest and lowest importance at a great gallop is a kind of censorship through speed Speed covers up with the advantage of seeming to show What is important is not covered or hidden: it is just putting speed into the legs or the motor of what is important so that it’s quickly off the stage How many dead today and what was the final score in the match? 2-0? A video of Bob Dylan

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Contributor

March 2018

Kevin Brazil is a writer and critic who lives in London. His writing has appeared in Granta, The White Review, the London...

Interview with Terre Thaemlitz

Interview

March 2018

Kevin Brazil

Interview

March 2018

In the first room of Terre Thaemlitz’s 2017 exhibition ‘INTERSTICES’, at Auto Italia in London, columns of white text ran across one wall. Thaemlitz...

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feature

Issue No. 10

Vern Blosum, Phantom

William E. Jones

feature

Issue No. 10

Chatsworth, established in 1888 in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, took its name from the family...

poetry

January 2015

My Beloved Uncles

Tove Jansson

TR. Thomas Teal

poetry

January 2015

However tired of each other they must have grown from time to time, there was always great solidarity among...

Interview

October 2014

Interview with Otobong Nkanga

Louisa Elderton

Interview

October 2014

Some things are meant to be lost. You can’t collect emotions. As the artist Otobong Nkanga tells me this,...

 

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