Der Defätist / The Defeatist
Year: 2026
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Sketchbook #33: Lisa Taliano
I was in Assisi once for a single afternoon and in my memory of it, I am within its walls and floating above the town. I’m surprised by the way Taliano captures that visceral memory. […]
What Meets the Eye
Gilles Deleuze “On Painting” Session 1 (A Painter’s Response)
“What does ‘speaking about painting’ mean? I believe that it means precisely: forming concepts that are in direct relation with painting and with painting alone.” Things have not been going well in the studio for […]
The Pencil Review
Der Defätist / The Defeatist
alacrity of 120 fish
120 diddie wah diddies, yes flying owl the least that must be said tis a rapid deployment of hail mary cosmopartisans terminals of defiance wonderhouse of… capitalism all these positions of innocence & brittle skillfulness […]
Letters to the Editor
Peter Knight* responds to “Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud!”
Here we go. I won’t be offended if you spike it! (That’s a little used term these days). You can save the world by doing one small, good deed at a time. Recycle that yoghurt pot, […]
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Sketchbook #32: Jonathan Allen
This is what I wrote about Allen’s work when I saw it in the Brooklyn Artists show in 2024:“I was surprised by how long Popeye held my attention so I looked at Allen’s website. It […]
Letters to the Editor
Su Friedrich responds to “Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud
Dear Cathy, You asked me to write this, I suppose in the hopes that reading it would encourage other people to heed the dire warning embedded in your piece about the cloud which isn’t […]
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Hey! You! I Got Off of My Cloud!
Ariel Hahn, a librarian friend, wrote an essay* about the damage to the climate caused by cloud storage for libraries and archives. She wasn’t giving solutions so much as suggesting it was a problem to […]
Der Defätist / The Defeatist