A Concatenation of Immaculate Modesties

On/In Bouchra Khaliliā€™s Twenty Two Hours

Twenty-Two Hours, 2018, video

Twenty-Two Hours, 2018

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Mos Def ā†’ Modern Marvel

Headquarter of the DFLP delegation (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), Algiers city center

HĆ“tel El Safir, Ex-Aletti, Algiers city center. Residence of the Black Panther Party delegation during the 1969 Pan-African Festival of Algiers.

Fig. 1 : Entrance of the former Casino

Foreign Office, 2015

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Ashglory

by Paul Celan
translated by Pierre Joris

 

Ashglory behind
your shaken-knotted
hands at the threeway.

 

Pontic erstwhile: here,
a drop,
on

 

the drowned rudder blade,
deep
in the petrified oath,
it roars up.

 

(On the vertical
breathrope, in those days,
higher than above,
between two painknots, while
the glossy
Tatarmoon climbed up to us,
I dug myself into you and into you.)

 

Ash-
glory behind
you threeway
hands.

 

The cast-in-front-of-you, from
the East, terrible.

 

No one
bears witness for the
witness.
Paul Celan, “Ashglory” fromĀ BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION by Paul Celan, 2014, translated by Pierre Joris.

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An Ongoing- Offcoming TaleĀ by Bonventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Anecdotes of That Which Is So Visible It Cannot Be Seen ā†’