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Henceforce: A Travel Poetic by Kamden Hilliard

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5.0

[Omnidawn staff review] In the candor of idiom, against an ultimately status-quo background flow of highly standardized, heavily surveilled interstitial spaces which in some perhaps ironic or joyful sense just happen to be airports, passenger cabins, the queue, but could perhaps be anywhere... Self-portraiture is made to occur. Which is to say, a presentation of self-voicing aspects, "the interior," amidst the trends of such a space, where the cold marks of capital, white supremacy, and the state, starkly frame the "shirtless" and "shoeless" ambiguity of self, aliveness of a libidinous voicing of being, plentifully aware of so many layers of significance in all of the moving parts, tracking sugar, tobacco, systemic efficiencies, "smart violence," and the perils of nomenclature, they "scrub themselves nameless."
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