Colloquium

POEMS by Gregory Lawless    Lake                For B The lake is just dirt in the heart. You should look at the lake like it’s applying for a job as an ocean it will never get. Pity ...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/08/lake-fog-just-saying/

ESSAY by Zak Breckenridge Keenan is in class, but I have to go. The itch is mounting in my chest. I check to make sure: my iPhone cable is locked inside his car. My own car is packed. I’ve alre...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/07/packing-up/

PHOTOS by Stefano Cagnato Recognition “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson Humanity ac...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/06/recognition/

BIOTECH PROTOTYPE POEMS + MIXED MEDIA IMAGES by Robert Bolton Artifacts of Desktop Biotech prototype poems + mixed media images  “Artifacts of Desktop Biotech” is an inventory of the recentl...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/05/artifacts-of-desktop-biotech/

ESSAY by Emma Brush            Rebecca West’s short story “Indissoluble Matrimony” presents a unique contribution to the first edition of Blast, both West’s first published work of...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/04/bodily-topography-in-rebecca-wests-indissoluble-matrimony/

ESSAY by Ben Stolurow Disney After Dark: A Review of Paul McCarthy’s Drawings for White Snow: University of Chicago Renaissance Society, September 2015- January 2016 These body fluids, this de...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/03/disney-after-dark-a-review-of-paul-mccarthys-drawings-for-white-snow-university-of-chicago-renaissance-society-september-2015-january-2016-by-ben-stolurow/

A CONVERSATION with Nic Holt and Trevor Cunnien How did you get into the techno scene? NH: In undergrad, I was really into Noise Music. I was a big fan of very heavy, very distorted Japanese Nois...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/02/a-conversation-on-the-communal-autonomy-of-techno-with-nic-holt-and-trevor-cunnien/

  POEMS by Anna Mirzayan   “I Eat, therefore” Ingestion? I can switch my gender at will.   the tv static is not exactly thing incarnate but pulsating slightly with electric breath   $’s...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/05/01/3-poems/

LETTER from the Editors Dear Readers, A huge thanks to the MAPH Staff, whose enduring support makes this journal possible. Thank you also to our 2016 Editorial Fellows, Tath Haver, Molly Bauer an...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2017/04/01/editors-note-4-2-2/

FICTION by Evan Stoner bohrme254 22 – M – Chicago, IL Orientation Straight Ethnicity Black Height 5’11” Body Type Skinny Diet Strictly anything Smokes That shit kills Drinks Beer me, bro ...

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/colloquium/2015/06/27/heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle/