System Failure - A Manifesto for Masochism
Edition of 100
Published 2020
Language: English
Size: A6
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50% of all profits from the sale of System Failure will be donated to UK Black Pride, who work to support LGBTQ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent in the UK.
Edition of 100
Published 2020
Language: English
Size: A6
£7 + shipping
︎ Buy through Etsy
︎ Listen to the manifesto
50% of all profits from the sale of System Failure will be donated to UK Black Pride, who work to support LGBTQ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Latin American descent in the UK.
System Failure - A Manifesto for Masochism is a work of concrete poetry and queer theory. The pamphlet was typeset using an Olympia typewriter, and duplicated on a standard flatbed scanner and inkjet printer.
The manifesto advocates for a queer, intersectional approach to feminism. If working towards undoing our roles in systematic power structures like gender, class, and race can be uncomfortable, then embracing this learning process can be seen as a kind of masochistic pleasure. The body text is rendered illegible through overprinting, the same media undoing the language it creates.
Where the queer body is concerned, being read can mean being seen, but being seen is not always desired. Sometimes the body just wants to be heard.
The manifesto advocates for a queer, intersectional approach to feminism. If working towards undoing our roles in systematic power structures like gender, class, and race can be uncomfortable, then embracing this learning process can be seen as a kind of masochistic pleasure. The body text is rendered illegible through overprinting, the same media undoing the language it creates.
Where the queer body is concerned, being read can mean being seen, but being seen is not always desired. Sometimes the body just wants to be heard.
