Salvage #16: The Construction Site of Hell
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Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of Salvage.
SALVAGE #16: The Construction Site of Hell features:
Richard Seymour - How Life Doesn't Work. Freedom and biology. The biology of freedom. Biology is freedom.
Michael McCarthy - On Theoretical Degeneration. Renewal against decay. Rigor against decadence. Savaging the popularist impulse to salvage our collective liberation.
Sam Wetherell - The Stadium at the End of the World. Nil satis nisi optimum. Nothing but the best is good enough.
Robyn Marasco - The Anti-Politics of Family Abolition. The terms of a just demand, seeking and finding politics, and political horizons.
Jonas Marvin - Whither Gravediggers? On the breaking of the english working class; Or, when the subject of history vanishes, what remains on its stage?
Jamie Allinson - It's the Museum or Us. In a burning world, burning down the institutions fueling the fire is the
only course. Pile museums and art as such on the pyre.
Joshua Cohen and Adam Stern - Dirty Work. On saying the quiet part out loud: decoding the settler-colonial imagination that has always already depopulated Palestine.
Lennie Hanson - Conjunctural Messianisms: Evangelical Leaders and Secular Academics on Divine Violence and the State. From the unsayable to the unspeakable: from the ‘Good Book’ to Gaza, via apophatic race hate.
Alex Billet - The Big One: Between the Fires in Los Angeles. David Lynch, Theodore Adorno, and Mr. Brett walk into a wild fire. The city and its pasts shutter as it burns.
With the poetry of:
Hannah Zeavin - 'July 37th' and 'Califia'
Fiction by:
Lucinda Kempe - 'Play a Game'
And the artwork of:
Luke Burton - 'Ambivalent Equivalents'