Monthly Archives: April 2020

THIS IS “SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS{nightmares} ARE MADE ON”.COVID (DREAM/REALITY){MICRO-}PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHICAL-SCAPES.FURTHER DIVAGATIONS BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on April 24, 2020 by decayetude

Fragments seem especially apposite these days…… Dance on the head of an app: Zoom(doom) Facetime poignantly/bittersweet cafe colloquia….even thought of doing a mock-up cafe: not as daft as it seems:)(Rainbow-coloured espresso cups, a few postcards of coffee-as-a-pick-me/you-up {random, memorabilia}; and … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE…. AND MORE.WHAT MAKES MY METRONOME WORK AND NOT WORK(“RIDERS”/”DRIVERS”).HOW CAN I USE THIS IS IN MY POST-COVID UNREAL/REAL OLD/NEW REALITY SERIES OF NARRATIVES? .BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 22, 2020 by decayetude

Let’s see where this goes….. As gay men, we made/make our (ever-changing/growing/receding{sometimes, in Covid time; occasionally expanding even then/now}REALITY…. to various degrees, depending on various macro and micro life /geographical configurations(and there is some choice in it, if we are … Continue reading →

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SUB-TOPIA.LIMINAL. COVID LANDSCAPE.A NARRATIVE IN (ERSTAZ) THEORY.THE VISITOR(eponymous protagonist of post-Covid geographies) BEGINS HIS WANDERINGS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 21, 2020 by decayetude

Topia(def)(Gr, topos=place), a place with specified {sic} characteristics…. sub=below, under, beneath; (extrap/metaphorical: liminal area) Ergo, below/athwart a place/space with defined traits:ergo, applicable to an across-Covid landscape,a literal(medico-scientific and sociological and HUMAN) and metaphorical phenomenon. ________________________________________________________ Where are we ?Where ARE … Continue reading →

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FIFTEEN DAYS LATER.THE VIRUS THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME.(another)PROLEGOMENON TO PARALLEL NARRATIVES.FOR MYSELF AND THE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 20, 2020 by decayetude

This is by way of a jump-start to my contrapuntal stories about a man in a post-covid landscape where un/sur-reality has become the new reality( we know/experience that bit!); but where the old/”old” reality becomes the new un/sur-reality….by some peculiar … Continue reading →

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ELEVEN DAYS LATER.MORE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE(BUT NOT A DIVINE PUNISHMENT).DIVAGATIONS TEMPLATE FOR AN (ONGOING?) short fiction.{CLUNKY TITLE}.BY STEVEN BENSON{credits to:an idea-engineer:an esteemed prof of all things literary and high(ly) theory(etical)}

Posted on April 16, 2020 by decayetude

So, I am doing ANOTHER creative writing course in this era of Zoom……… IDEA:reverse(?) dystopia: outline{credit/catalyst:acknowledged -fully-in title, above}: A man { a gay flaneur, peut-etre?:P}RETURNS to the post-Covid/plague city… not too literal/not too sci-fi -extrapolated; some sort of auto-fictive … Continue reading →

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FOUR DAYS LATER.LET’S NOT CALL IT THE COVID DIARIES…..BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 5, 2020 by decayetude

(4 days later) A desultorily (purposed-to a degree- by capturing {meta} phorical images/remnants)walk [I will collage-collate them here soon) Exhaustion (physical and COVID) and depression{another ever- present danger/angst: by sharing these “negative”-nay, realistic?neutral- thoughts/feelings:- by this VERY process I shall … Continue reading →

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FIRE AND BRIMSTONE.STRAY.SOCIALISM ARRIVES(SORT OF).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 1, 2020 by decayetude

WHAT PRICE{sic} SOCIALISM? It’s arrived amidst a virulent virus….. COVID-19{Yuk} Jezzy was right (largely!) all along……. Sunak brought in Universal Basic Income (under a different name, so he didn’t look so Corbynite/Socialist)…….. Jezzy-“retiring” {forced out by Blairites and the media … Continue reading →

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