A tall sweet looking guy walked into the store this morning, asking for “some life coaching books, some books that give life advice”. As we mainly sell fiction here in Ark Books (as well as some theory), chances of finding a straight up self-help book are slim. Of course, if you ask me, reading fiction… Keep Reading
1. I saw a movie on the airplane. There is this type of women in films. Slim faced, dark straight hair, worried mother faces. Nearly divorced. They seem to have this ability to uphold marriage on their own after their husband left them. Like they are the institution of marriage, and have been and will… Keep Reading
Being on the verge of 30, the question of motherhood seems to be lurking everywhere, and I’m not the only one feeling its clammy hands on my uterus. I recently met up with Emilie, an old friend from university, who’s been working through this question in the best way she knows how, reading as many books… Keep Reading
“Teeth,” WebMD informs me, “are the hardest substances [sic] in the human body”. WebMD, to be fair, is not renowned for its semantic precision. Nor its grammatical prowess. Nor its utility as a diagnostic tool. Indeed, WebMD is borderline infamous (albeit endearingly so) for inviting the bored and mildly infirmed to abduce that the cause… Keep Reading
35 years after the release of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi love story Blade Runner, an updated imagining of Philip K. Dick’s A.I. dystopia returned in 2017 when the highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049 hit theatres. While enthusiastically lauded by a harangue of ecstatic film critics, Denis Villeneuve’s BR sequel also received considerable scrutiny for its… Keep Reading
As I sit here in the Mordor of unemployment, a consultant agency designed for people like me to become more enthusiastic about applying for jobs (posters of stones and waterfalls on the walls, zen-y vibes to soothe the soul), I scroll through some Instagram accounts that I have developed a strange relationship with. Being unemployed… Keep Reading
Content warning: this piece contains discussion of racial and sexual violence. Also, if you’re so inclined, Content warning: content warning. Cycling home one evening, I saw the poster featuring the original title of Madame Nielsen and Sort/Hvid’s (Christian Lollike) recent collaboration, the play White Nigger/ Black Madonna (hereafter to be referred to by its current… Keep Reading
I first heard the phrase ‘Sad Girl’ used to describe a female “archetype” in the words of Audrey Wollen, an instagram artist whose ‘Sad Girl Theory’ started circulating on the internet around 2015. Wollens theory functions on a number of levels; firstly, as a reaction against what she describes as the high “demands” of contemporary… Keep Reading
Writing an introduction to accelerationism in 2018 feels a bit odd. In that, were it as pervasive a cultural virus as many of its adherents espoused, it should no longer require an introduction. This seems like some kind of evidence that suggests there’s something lack in the idea itself, at least as it relates to… Keep Reading
We, Ariane Veiergang and Ditte Nesdam-Madsen, founded Terrapolis. It is a platform for text, conversations and dialogue. Our desire is for Terrapolis to become a stage on which literature can cooperate and co-create with other art forms: as in an exhibition space of text-based art, as in the publishing books and so on — somehow… Keep Reading