Who Is at the Door?: On Brandon Shimoda’s Hydra Medusa
The haunting is never settled. It moves in every direction, changing shape, folding inwards, transforming the living as it does the dead. All of us: diaspora of the ___.
In Search of the Late-Capitalist Heartland: On Danny Caine’s “Flavortown”
Within this framework, the city of Flavortown becomes a kind of fraught retreat into global branding through which regional identity can be defended and maintained.