The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away…
Read MoreGlitch Feminism is about modes of experimentation beginning online before entering the world. The house of gender needs to be dismantled…
Read MoreFACT: we have zero agency / FACT: whiteness is a super-pac / FACT: yes as a feminist i’ll still choose migos…
Read MoreTaking your place in cyberspace
An architecture meeting architect
Surveilling under the cymbals of surveillance
Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin by Legacy Russell Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman / Giving all your love to just one man / You’ll have bad times / And he’ll have good times / Doing things that you don’t understand / But if you love him you’ll forgive him / Even though he’s…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell 1. In the early-evening hours of November 4th, 2008, when everyone was waiting to find out whether or not Barack Obama would take the election and become the 44th President of the United States, I was at home drinking an ill-timed whiskey. A friend of mine called me up and asked if…
Read More“Adam and Eve Driven Out of Paradise”, from The Story of the Bible by Charles Foster. Illustrations by F.B. Schell by Legacy Russell The cultural practice of the “perp walk” is a form of social performativity. The perp walk itself is not a performance, singular. Rather, it is a myriad of happenings, spectacles that are…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell Poet Richard Siken begins his “Dirty Valentine” [1] by confessing, “There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you. / I touch myself, I dream.” I do, too. We live in a confessional culture wherein the most detailed minutiae of everyday life is splayed out via the platform of social…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell They killed our dog. It was December. I was in the garage. I was hiding. I hate to admit it, but I was hiding next to the goddamn freezer. It was propped open: the freezer. We had won the local sweepstake at the school pre-Christmas fundraiser and they had given us some…
Read MoreBerfrois is an online literary-intellectual magazine. Berfrois is free of adverts thanks to our supporters. Editor Russell Bennetts founded Berfrois in 2009. His work is featured in The Bookseller, The Coming of the Toads and the Poetry Foundation. Associate Editors Medha Singh is an author, translator and editor based in New Delhi. Her books are…
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Read MoreWhat is it about the predicament of digital writing and reading that has so many literary provocateurs abuzz? “Mies van der Rohe said, ‘The least is the most.’..
Read More‘We make art with our cunt,’ wrote ’90s cyberfeminists, VNS Matrix. ‘Gender abolitionism’ (Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, 2015) has marked a shift in rhetoric, and Cornelia Sollfrank was the only 2017 delegate I remember to use the c-word
Read MoreIt’s easiest to start from the impulse to problematize the position of the flâneur. The ugly word privilege hovers around it, and we turn to questions that we know the answer to, “Who, exactly, is allowed to wander, like so?”
Read MoreAnother One Bites The Dust, Cory Arcangel, 2007 Thanking You Thanks to our incredibly generous 132 funders, Berfrois will continue publication. We have even raised enough to spruce things up around here. Cheers! Introducing Our New Editorial Team Our new senior editors are: Daniel Bosch Nicholas Rombes Legacy Russell Masha Tupitsyn Our new associate editors…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell 1. The Mom-to-Be “The mom-to-be” played by Adrea Teasdale. 2. The Party Girl “The party girl” played by Rance Palmer. 3. The Bride “The bride” played by Maria Dizzia 4. The Mourner “The mourner” played by Elizabeth Koke 5. Portrait Commissioned for the Museum of Arts and Design, New York About the…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell The “courtroom sketch” is an artistic rendering done by hand of courtroom activity, dating as far back as the 1800s, as a means of preserving privacy and avoiding disturbance during formal legal proceedings. As tabloid yellow journalism has collided with the presence of new media and 21st-century Hollywood celebrity culture, the scope…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, NY 10128 ATTN: Ms. Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Dear Ms. Spector: Please find here my recent review of “Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective,” currently on view at your venerable institution. I truly…
Read Moreby Legacy Russell Here’s how the dream ends: It is Summer. Moisture is crucified in the air with two wooden clothespins and a wire hanger. You are told there are trees in the city but everywhere you look you cannot see them and so you will all get into your little cars and drive up…
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