Post-exoticism in 10 lessons is a sweltering, dreamlike study of narrative under conditions of extreme surveillance. Translated into English in 2015 (Open Letter), the book is a part of pseudonymous French writer Antoine Volodine’s larger meta-fictional project. His characters are incarcerated writers, former militants who develop ‘post-exoticism’ to communicate with each other using new subjective forms as the world liberation movements of the 60’s and 70’s are crushed and superseded by the neo-liberal world order. The book is itself a document of the unique literary modes of post-exoticism as its practitioners die off one by one, determined to be forgotten and remembered on their own terms.This is a very special episode, in which Max and Dan are joined by a dear friend and comrade, Anita Negrini. We talk about languages of evasion, the resonant anti-politics of extreme genre-forms like grindcore, and the liberatory(?) chorus of the (un)remembered dead.Music of avant-grind militants Cokskar can be found at:https://cokskar.bandcamp.com/The beautifully printed theory/review zine, Grind DIalectics Vol. I and II, can be acquired via [email protected]://twitter.com/unseenbookclubArt by Eli Liebman: https://elimack.weebly.com/Buzzsprout Instagram Music by Ex-Official Art by Eli Mack

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“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

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