This is a tour de force. I expect the MAGA leadership to be the first to break their own directives, but - of course - they’ll deem that okay because it’ll be while aggressively denigrating others.
Thanks! Yes to the above. I’m thinking about that Maria Fusco’s book where she writes:
“I am for adjectives like beezer, dreich, quare, and nouns like clart, drouth, gleed, mizzle, oxters, scoot-hole, smoor, and verbs like boke, fissle, greet, hunker, swither, and adverbs like furnenst. I am for non-standard English language as a legitimate and enriching form of critical and creative writing which does not take modalities of criticality as given, rather it tends to, and experiments with non-division between practice and theory, criticism and creativity.”
I didn’t know that the lost words was based on an “anti-desecration phrase book” although this makes total sense. I think it’s a seminal text for creative resistance and community, not least because if Musk and his tech bros have their way whole swathes of text will be lost ( and probably are already!). Thank you for a great essay.
This is a tour de force. I expect the MAGA leadership to be the first to break their own directives, but - of course - they’ll deem that okay because it’ll be while aggressively denigrating others.
aw thanks Felicity
Love this Mike! We need to make loads of analogue zines and counter-flood the zone with all the beautiful delicious words
Thanks! Yes to the above. I’m thinking about that Maria Fusco’s book where she writes:
“I am for adjectives like beezer, dreich, quare, and nouns like clart, drouth, gleed, mizzle, oxters, scoot-hole, smoor, and verbs like boke, fissle, greet, hunker, swither, and adverbs like furnenst. I am for non-standard English language as a legitimate and enriching form of critical and creative writing which does not take modalities of criticality as given, rather it tends to, and experiments with non-division between practice and theory, criticism and creativity.”
I didn’t know that the lost words was based on an “anti-desecration phrase book” although this makes total sense. I think it’s a seminal text for creative resistance and community, not least because if Musk and his tech bros have their way whole swathes of text will be lost ( and probably are already!). Thank you for a great essay.