Category Archives: Natural History

Nostocalgie de la Boue

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The colonial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune (image from Wikipedia)

Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…

The title of this incendiary intervention is a reference to the French phrase nostalgie de la boue, literally meaning “nostalgia for mud” and referring to a longing for social or sexual degradation.

Pards Paired

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Two leopards at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…

pard, n.¹ A panther, a leopard; (also) an animal resembling these. Now archaic.
pard, n.² A partner, esp. a male partner; a comrade, a mate.

• Oxford English Dictionary

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #72

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…

• Homing in the Gloaming – Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return, Jon Day (John Murray 2019)

• Niceberg – The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl (Simon & Schuster 2021)

• Nasty Lastly – Nasty Endings 1, compiled by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 2001)

• Daysed and Confused – Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia, Joe Banks (Strange Attractor 2020)

• World-Wide Wipe-Out – Empty World, John Christopher (1977)

• Chuck Off – Post Office, Charles Bukowski (1971)

• #AllDayDong – Dong, Peter Sotos and Sam Salatta (TransVisceral Books 2022)

• Meet the Maverick Munch-Bunch… – Naked Krunch: The Sinister, Sordid and Strangely Scrumptious Story of SavSnaq, Dr David M. Mitchell (Savoy Books 2022)

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