Vivian Blaxell



Introduction to McKenzie Wark’s Dispositions 26

Every spaceless space in Dispositions 26 is disposed to be thick with all things, even inequities being equal. In it, Wark is thick with transsexual. She is thick with jobless. She has eyes for the uncanny and an uncanny way of showing the uncanny. And yes, she is McKenzie Wark on dérive and thick with a kind of wisdom about why the enemy is winning and the dérive soon to be no more than an Instagram moment.

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 6

Once, I was sitting in my therapist’s office, and she asked me the question ‘Why do you write poetry?’ It’s a very good question; one with many answers, half of which I couldn’t articulate here. I responded to her with something like, ‘It helps me to understand my internal environment.’

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The Mommy Sutra

My mother’s element, my mommy’s being, my mum’s poem was garden. She was a couple of port wine magnolia mulched and fed and reliable with enameled green leaves and swooning blossoms come spring. She was a bed of mignonette lettuce, …

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