Intensity: Heretical

Challenges taboos
8 heresies

APTEMNOPHILIA

Editors note: A few weeks back we received a concise and very appealing message in our journal mailbox: “I know very well you have never read anything like this. Please let me know if you need any information from me. My best,” – Louis Bourgeois, Executive Director of the Mississippi Prison Writers Initiative. Indeed, the

The Shaft

Trapped in a luxury hotel air shaft, two men debate God and Being, and what they discover inside drives everyone mad.

In a self-respecting dictatorship, the writer is the most dangerous man alive

Erick Overveen is a Dutch writer, filmmaker and cultural commentator whose work spans novels like Delirium?! and incisive essays on media and society. He writes with the precision of a critic and the timing of someone who knows culture is already strange enough on its own. In his first contribution to Unsafe Journal, he turns

BECOMING A PAINTER

The safe way concerns 99.999% of painters. These have been drawn into art by the irresistible odor of its prestige, for the prestige of painting is unsurpassed.

Wayne Horse / Willehad Eilers

Explore Willehad Eilers bold crude style and surreal social satire revealing 7 bizarre obsessions shaping modern society.