New essay: Mystifying the Appearances

Perhaps my favourite recent piece of more theoretical work, now live at Røyst

Late last year I was commissioned by Røyst, a Norwegian literary publication, to write something on the theme of “Dissidents”. I proposed an essay on “the politics of occlusion”, a theme I’ve been turning over in my mind recently. I’m sharing it here as I think a few of you might enjoy the argument.

Read “Mystifying the Appearances”.

In the essay I read t…