The 18th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes the range of tools Kathy Acker used to work freely outside the literary establishment.
The 17th piece in the Polity of Literature series looks at two political models that resist oppressive systems and offer possibilities for the future emergence of a polity of literature.
The 16th piece in the Polity of Literature series contemplates Arendt’s idea of a plurality that can be enacted in the agora of a written text or in the public square.
The 15th piece in the Polity of Literature series tells, in video, the story of Muhammed, a deaf, mute boy who experienced the Syrian war.
In this addendum to the 14th piece in the Polity of Literature series documents a lived, embodied experience of a polity of literature in refugee camps in Greece.
The 14th piece in the Polity of Literature series shares examples of zine-making in refugee camps in Uganda and Greece, and by exiled Bangladeshi and Iranian writers in Scandinavia.
The 12th piece in the Polity of Literature series is an excerpt from The Faces of Justice (1961), a description of trial court procedures observed with the writer’s fierce sense of justice.
The 11th piece in the Polity of Literature series looks at the various rules set by courts and immigration authorities, from the perspectives of artists working to critique those systems.
This addendum to the 10th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes the unique challenges of queer asylum seekers facing adjudicators skeptical of their credibility.
The 10th piece in the Polity of Literature series studies the encounter of the asylum seeker with the host nation, and the processes that determine the refugee’s legal fate.
The 9th piece in the Polity of Literature series reports on the power of writing to heal human bonds ravaged by the inhumane conditions of asylum detention.
The 8th piece in the Polity of Literature series surveys a collection of prison books—from the ancient Greeks to Civil Rights leaders and the incarcerated refugees of today.