mark iosifescu
@iosifescu.biz
writer // editor // member of a band that's hard to describe
people are being really kind about the pynchon essay and i'm grateful!! i also forget how to use sites like this one, so while i woodshed please feel free to find me on substack
failures of the avant-garde | mark iosifescu | Substack
weekly writing on counterculture and its discontents. Click to read failures of the avant-garde, by mark iosifescu, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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mark iosifescu@iosifescu.biz · 11mo agodream assignment complete
dream assignment complete
n+1@nplusonemag.com · 11mo ago“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
my essay on Peter Weiss’s THE AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE, as seen in the newest issue of The Whitney Review markiosifescu.substack.com/p/essay-the-...
ESSAY // the aesthetics of resistance
“it is the principle of art to do something, although the odds are against it.”
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some fiction about cassette-foisting from the new issue of LCD markiosifescu.substack.com/p/fiction-sc...
FICTION // “scene report” in LCD #28
“you're saying your music is... smug and incoherent?”
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wrote another longass essay on scene politics and countercultural arcana
ESSAY // lettrism + the failure of aesthetic action
“We had to demolish Charlie Chaplin, but it was a directly political issue.”
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edited the first english translation of the legendary SAGA DE XAM, out in june
Nicolas Devil and Jean Rollin - Saga De Xam. Book. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Saga De Xam by Nicolas Devil and Jean Rollin on Mexican Summer & Anthology. Book.
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a little in-progress fiction on student protests, state violence, and mannequins markiosifescu.substack.com/p/fiction-br...
FICTION // brinkmann 2000
“like a holster under a silk nightie. it was almost too much to think about.”
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wrote a little about the book that has thoroughly wrecked my shit markiosifescu.substack.com/p/psa-the-ae...
PSA // the aesthetics of resistance
“Oh Heracles... how are we supposed to stand our ground without you by our side”
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that said if this were just an aesthetics of resistance account, i wouldn’t be bummed
after months of peter weiss, a little palate cleanse this morning
Designed the cover and some chapter headings for OTHER NETWORKS, a very unique and captivating index of non-internet networks by Lori Emerson- Preorder open now from Anthology Editions, check it out. Edited by @iosifescu.biz
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2y ago📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
cheers to @loriemerson.net on the release of OTHER NETWORKS, a beautiful and weird publication years in the making!!
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2y ago📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
it’s true new story in @xraylitmag.bsky.social !!
X-R-A-Y@xraylitmag.bsky.social · 2y agohuge fan of 'Ladies of the Privy Chamber' by Mark Iosifescu @iosifescu.biz !! this story is about a group of women who destroy a church. featuring: witches in masks, flames, a dancing beast xraylitmag.com/ladies-of-th...
interviewed @lumberdont.bsky.social about the essential stupidity of making work www.writersfoundryreview.org/featuring-be...
In Conversation with Bela Shayevich — WRITER'S FOUNDRY REVIEW
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in retrospect doesnt it kinda seem like this is when things started going off the rails??
just found out that scifi in french is “anticipation” as in “romans d’anticipation”.. much better name
