NIGREDO Our darkening world has dressed itself up in vestment of blue Void. Has lain on its self-discrowned head the lazy eyelid corpse. Vacuum abhorrent naturam. That’s what they say. What they say. Forests burn in a world that has …
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Surrealist Collectivity
by Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 413, Spring, 2023
“Surrealism is the collective experience of individualism” —André Masson
Communicating Vessels
by Jason Abdelhadi, Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021
a review of Dreams of Anarchy and the Anarchy of Dreams by Ron Sakolsky; Illustrations by Rikki Ducornet. Autonomedia 2021 In Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland, the Mad-Hatter poses the famous riddle, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” It …
Future Shock: 2077
by Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 409, Summer, 2021
The prisons? Open. The army? Disbanded. And much more, besides.
Minneapolis Athanor
by Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 407, Fall, 2020
Beautiful, marvelous weeks. America is on fire, america is shining, america is a flower of joyful rage. A dead tree, bearing unexpected fruit.
The Liberation of the Word
by Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 406, Spring, 2020
The liberation of the word & the liberation of the world are codependent. Revolutionary writing should not be grammatically pure, disinterested or unpoetic. It should not be written from the cold vantage point of an absent silent god.
The Trials & Tribulations of Mrs. Whale Head
by Steven Cline
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
During Whale Head’s sleep, her organs grew very impatient and bored since they had become hyper intelligent. In order to amuse themselves, they read all the books in a twenty-seven-mile radius by spatial osmosis, and also managed to solve the …