Book releases: eco-futurism in comics and transpedegouine pamphlet

A text that charges patriarchy

Pamphlet After collecting intimate testimonies in her book “Vulvas” (Ed. Gorge bleue, 2019), Alexia Tamécylia became Alex and published this fierce text whose extended title is an ironic paraphrase of the American televangelist Pat Robertson. Presenting itself as a sort of “Scum manifesto” 2.0 – in reference to the virulent text by Valerie Solanas from 1967 – “The feminists…” chooses to lead the charge against the patriarchy with passionate rigor.

This refusal of any consensus can irritate but it also bears fruit. Letting go of the filters also means losing a good part of your cultural conditioning. This refusal of dressage, this demand, not only to do and think about it as one pleases but also to make those who are anxious about feminism and the question of gender, deliver a wild word where intransigence responds to intolerance, where degendered words jostle in new spellings and where LGBT radicalism is transformed into a combat and writing sport.

In this rather furious carousel, a certain humor finally emerges, which suggests a possible distance, but never for long. “You haven’t gone far yet / you could have gone there / to heterosexuality way of life / you were going hard on the highway straight / and you took an exit to real life.” A book that touches queerness. BSE

A comic book renews the ecological cataclysm

Comic Climate skeptics can try to read this comic but they will not understand it… Others will be able to discuss the options taken by the first volume of “Swallowing the Moon”, a series planned as a trilogy. Because it is not enough to foresee the catastrophe, we must also agree on the scenarios for its realization.

In a style that is both graphic and poetic, this three-person production plays the card of suggestion, both in its visual approach and in its plot outlines, to imagine a future where the earth is already reaching the end of its agony, five hundred years after the first attempts to reverse the Anthropocene trend. Climate engineering has shown its limits in experiments which have not had the expected result. A 15-year-old girl attempts to continue her parental project of generating clean energy from the moon in order to replenish the Earth’s biotope.

In addition to its drawing, which contrasts with the nightmarish precision of most productions dealing with the same theme, the series, which begins with “The Elevator”, also benefits from its bias to treat the catastrophe from the point of view of the survivors of a distant future. An original and promising comic strip. BSE

The “Beat generation” in 100 words

Literary history A specialist in Bukowski and Kerouac, Jean-François Duval signs a “Que sais-je?” as fun as it is exciting on the Beat generationthis line of authors who transformed American literature, like the function that New Hollywood had for cinema.

The Genevan, already author of the novel “LuAnne on the road with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac” (Gallimard), obviously cannot resist an entry “Bukowski”, too short to allow him to cite this short story depicting his meeting with Kerouac, but long enough to betray his admiration for a writer who “completely rejects the ‘romanticism’ of the Beats.”

From “Adolescence” to “Z as ziggurat and resonance zones”, via “Buddha”, “Dylan”, “Guns” and “Suicide”, this playful repertoire relevantly covers all the perspectives of these authors – primarily Burroughs , Ginsberg and Kerouac – addicted to spirituality, sex, drugs and travel. Duval’s very personal comments lead him to place emphasis on women, who are too often forgotten. BSE

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