Monthly Archives: August 2021

CATCHY TITLE: “FRENZIED MELANCHOLY, AND THE (DE) CAFFEINATED GAY MALE FLANEUR(S)”. A STORY(SORT OF). BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on August 21, 2021 by decayetude

To caffeinate or NOT to caffeinate; that is the (critical)interrogation. To inter-text or not; To hommage FLANERIE, in the sense used by Benjamin, inter alia, is a standing-apart-from-and-critiquing peregrination through the (vestiges/ruins, sometimes) of capitalism; its detritus, and its (temporary) … Continue reading →

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QUEERLY ATHWART MODERNISM. A SENTENCE.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on August 3, 2021 by decayetude

He meandered, stopping off for cafe flanerie, phantasmically devouring espresso after espresso, through the bye-ways of a kind of modernistico-antiquarian, hybrid form of linguistic and literary loitering {neither prose, nor poetry….}, acknowledging his forebears (W G Sebald, in especial), yet … Continue reading →

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THE TENTATIVE BLUE(PINK) PRINT.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on August 3, 2021 by decayetude

TOWARDS A RESPONSE ABOUT QUEER MODERNISM. BY STEVEN BENSON Who am I to be situated in/around/athwart modernism; amidst all its reflections, looking back AND forward, hommaging and laying out blueprints for the future……: I am Steve, a gay man. I … Continue reading →

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