The Last Submission
I'm not going to waste my precious time & energy to write ever again for The Unsafe Journal.
Intensity: Blasphemous
Challenges norms
Take me back to the Stone Age
Trump has called Iranians “apes.” In times like these, one must be political.
The Faustian Bargain
Sisyphus pays full price for not having made a Faustian bargain before climbing Mount Academia.
The Man Who Knelt Down (In Defense of Artists Living in Iran)
“Those Iranians in the diaspora who do not understand the tragic nature of life easily draw moral lines.”
A Leader of the Modern Age in Medieval Robes and Turbans
“For an Iranian, contradiction is not a philosophical decoration of life. Contradiction is life itself.”
FART SCHOOL: UNCANCELED
Cancel culture failed. Fart School rises, mocking rules, authority & the Rietveld Academy.
On trauma: When I was 6 my mum did not cut off the crust of my sandwich.
I decided I would only rub fuck parts with women. But then a lady abused me transcendentally and I hit rock bottom.
Your golden hair, Fatemeh! Your greying hair, Masoud!
The regime publishes the ID numbers of the dead. Mohsen Namjoo sets names to chords. Let’s see which archive survives longer.
FART SCHOOL
The Rietveld Academy killed this book for being too free. Years later, we resurrected it to prove that institutionalized art deserves a proper funeral. † † †