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Come along as Senyora Psicosi experiences the side effects of antidepressants, lays the groundwork for making bombs and takes a call from a man with a keen interest and exciting opinions on fishing baits and electric toothbrushes.

One can be against everything, and some people definitely are, but fighting everything at once is not an option. In the month of June we at Ark Books tried to collectively write against everything, one subject at a time. This time the theme is therefore Against ______.

Music Used

Handel - Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7 no1 mvt3

Selections from the 2005-2006 Season by Advent Chamber Orchestra is licensed under a Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #1 Tao Lin's Electric Espionage

There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danish speakers). The theme of which this year was Growth.

The event was called Accursed growth! (with an exclamation point) and tried to explore the concept of growth from the perspective of Georges Bataille’s theory of general economy.

But this then became the jumping off point for asking question about what such a view on growth could mean for some debates surrounding feminism

The evening began with a series of readings that help us and abstract the concept of growth to make it more malleable to discussions of gender and identity within a specific economic and ecological context.

After this, in the second podcast we hear from Jon Auring Grimm and Rebecca Lund as they discuss how the literature and philosophy we have heard about so far, mixed in with radical political and feminist philosophy can help us rethink growth as something liberatory rather than oppressive.

On a technical note.

When we hold readings in Ark Books the intimacy of the space can heighten the experience. Giving it a grandeur that doesn’t really translate to the audio recording.

So to remedy this we have tried find a technical way to enhance this audio and help listeners engage with it more fully and intensely.

So through the miracles of audio engineering we have restaged Accursed Growth in The royal festival hall of London’s South Bank.

Now sit back and enjoy readings of George Bataille, Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Hang Kang and Kathy Acker performed the volunteers of Ark Books.

You can also check out the video of the Bataille reading on Ark Books Facebook page.

In part 2 of Accursed Growth! In this section you will here Rebecca Lund and Jon Auring Grimm discuss how the literature presented so far can help us to expand our notion of growth.

This event was a part of the KBH Læser festival and made possible by the support of Nørrebro Lokaludvalg.

The Ark Audio Book Club will be back next month where we will be discussing Claire Louise Bennet’s short story collection Pond.

There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danish speakers). The theme of which this year was Growth.

The event was called Accursed growth! (with an exclamation point) and tried to explore the concept of growth from the perspective of Georges Bataille’s theory of general economy.

But this then became the jumping off point for asking question about what such a view on growth could mean for some debates surrounding feminism

The evening began with a series of readings that help us and abstract the concept of growth to make it more malleable to discussions of gender and identity within a specific economic and ecological context.

After this, in the second podcast we hear from Jon Auring Grimm and Rebecca Lund as they discuss how the literature and philosophy we have heard about so far, mixed in with radical political and feminist philosophy can help us rethink growth as something liberatory rather than oppressive.

On a technical note.

When we hold readings in Ark Books the intimacy of the space can heighten the experience. Giving it a grandeur that doesn’t really translate to the audio recording.

So to remedy this we have tried find a technical way to enhance this audio and help listeners engage with it more fully and intensely.

So through the miracles of audio engineering we have restaged Accursed Growth in The royal festival hall of London’s South Bank.

Now sit back and enjoy readings of George Bataille, Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Hang Kang and Kathy Acker performed the volunteers of Ark Books. You can also check out the video of the Bataille reading on Ark Books Facebook page. In part 2 of Accursed Growth! In this section you will here Rebecca Lund and Jon Auring Grimm discuss how the literature presented so far can help us to expand our notion of growth. This event was a part of the KBH Læser festival and made possible by the support of Nørrebro Lokaludvalg.

The Ark Audio Book Club will be back next month where we will be discussing Claire Louise Bennet’s short story collection Pond.

This time, Ark Review didn't put together a theme, which doesn't give Snorri a great deal to work with but he still finds a way. He talks with the host of the storytelling phenomenon "The Horses Mouth" and Franek Korbanski about his article, "The manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning".

Hosted by Snorri Hallsson

Read the articles here: arkbooks.dk/ark-review/

Follow The Horses Mouth: https://www.facebook.com/thehorsesmouthcph/

Come to Lyse Nætter #1:https://www.facebook.com/events/1459742260766482/

This month on the Ark Audio Book Club, the gang discuss "I'm very into you", an intense collection of emails between Kathy Acker and Mckenzie Wark that cover everything from sexuality and The Simpsons to motorcycles and Bataille, all with that gauzy light of being close to falling in love. Also, tonnes of 90s nostalgia!

Check out Sarah's review here http://arkbooks.dk/review-im-very-into-you-by-kathy-acker-mckenzie-wark/

In the first episode of the Ark Audio Review, a mash up of Ark Audio and the Ark review, we look at defanging, vampires, the modern school system and irony in the time of late capitalism.

Hosted by Snorri Hallsson

Read the articles here: http://arkbooks.dk/ark-review/

Support Atlas Magazine here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/107653352/stt-atlas

For this episode of the Ark Audio Book Club we have read "Aliens and Anorexia" by Chris Kraus, the second book in the "I Love Dick trilogy" published on Semiotext in 2000. In short: This book starts where I Love Dick ended. More of the same - Chris and Sylvere still hang out, but he’s gotten a new girlfriend, whose house Chris lives in, she has gotten into phone sex and S/M because it’s the only sex where she finds that people hold their end of the bargain, she is still made invisible by men and she is still fiercely unhappy. Now in Berlin she is trying to sell her movie at the European Film market.

And to talk about this we have as always, Macon Holt, Rebecca Linneman and Neus Casanova. Hosted by Giovanna Alesandro.

On this edition of the Ark Audio Book Club, we talk about the new testament gospels of Mark and John These give oddly different but strangely similar accounts of a young (though middle aged by the standards of the time) political and spiritual radical called Jesus of Nazareth. He rolls up to various towns accruing a reputation as a healer, a teacher and a miracle worker and disciples on the way. But this does not go over well with the local religious bigwigs, the Pharisees, who plot with the help of the Roman administration and one of Jesus’s own disciples, to have Jesus executed for blasphemy for claiming to be the son of god. Little do they know, however, Jesus is on to them but also has no desire to stop them. As he plans to die and then come back from the dead for the redemption of humanity. On the panel this month we have first time Ark Audio Book Club participants Ilinca Cretu and the return of Giovanna Alessandro. Hosted by Macon Holt