[Images Provided by Andrew Wessels] In Andrew Wessels’ A Turkish Dictionary, Istanbul is a palimpsest on which the writer seeks to trace the marks left behind—the umbral residue of displaced…
Laura Vena
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Birdwolf XVII
by Laura Vena April 26, 2016Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different…
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#AndNow2015: You May No Longer Recognize Your Sediments: Seismologies of the Self and Other Bodies
by Laura Vena May 6, 2015As presented at #AndNow2015 as part of the Resonances & Repetitions: Poetic Reverie and Space Panel. How do you imagine sleep in moments of irrepressible synchronicity? When memories of falling…
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Their Days Are Numbered I
by Laura Vena January 6, 2015Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
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Sunday Entropy List: A Compilation of Personal Reflections for 2014
by Laura Vena December 21, 2014Because the year is coming to a close, I thought I’d pry into the personal lives of our Editors and Contributors to ask what went on in their lives apart…
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Sunday Lists: Top 3 Mythical Beasts
by Laura Vena July 20, 2014Entropy contributors offer up their own communal compendium of mythical(ish) beasts as a nod to those in the Middle Ages who combined the practice of scientific observation and natural history with a…
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There’s Only Right Now: On the Music & Loss of Charlie Haden
by Laura Vena July 18, 2014By Joe Milazzo and Laura Vena “There’s no yesterday or tomorrow, there’s only right now.” —Charlie Haden Charlie Haden, widely revered and wildly influential jazz bassist, composer, arranger and educator,…
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Fantastic Failures in Jodorowsky’s Dune
by Laura Vena April 29, 2014The Persistent Dreams of Mom and Alejandro Jodorowsky “And one voice, with sublime disregard for the situation, read poetry aloud in the fiery study, until all the film spools burned,…
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Socialist Utopia, Collaboration, & the Meditative Clown in Mady Schutzman’s Documentary Film Essay, Dear Comrade
by Laura Vena March 20, 2014Or How Collaboration is a Socialist Activity Beneath a stark, luminous desert sky, a clown silently rummages through the detritus and wanders the ruins of Llano del Rio—a socialist utopia…