Egg God joins the show to talk about the state of contemporary poetry and the culture around it, AOC's emotional warfare and offensive pattern of lying, and his recent Twink Revolution essay 'What Gregg Araki Was Trying to Say,' which leads to a discussion on commercial art at the end of history, and the liquidation of modernism and the avant-garde.

There is only one.

Fernando Pessoa 'Autopsychography'

The poet is a man who feigns
And feigns so thoroughly, at last
He manages to feign as pain
The pain he really feels,
And those who read what once he wrote
Feel clearly, in the pain they read,
Neither of the pains he felt,
Only a pain they cannot sense.
And thus, around its jolting track
There runs, to keep our reason busy,
The circling clockwork train of ours
That men agree to call a heart.

LINKS:

Egg God 'What Gregg Araki Was Trying to Say': https://twinkrev.com/2021/02/what-gregg-araki-was-trying-to-say/

Adam on Hype Williams and Commercial Art writ large: https://www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/5/15/2gba9lbl38vbk8obosi0y44gpq5bq6

Adam on Amanda Gorman: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/amanda-gorman-and-the-rise-of-the

JG Ballard on Helmut Newton: https://www.jgballard.ca/media/1997_march_artforum_magazine.html

Charlie Fox on Harmony Korine: https://www.frieze.com/article/charlie-fox-harmony-korines-gummo

Michael Tracey on AOC: https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/how-aoc-links-the-personal-with-the-political-stifling-dissent/