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I have finished a manuscript for my second book (synopsis
below) Yay
! And I am working to secure a literary agent, while also
wrapping up final edits, and networking.
Additionally, I am working on two books of poetry, and beginning
a project for a third book.
In 2018, I published, Prison As Power: Being & State Contra
Negativity & Notion, a philosophical and ethnographic analysis
and critique of incarceration, racism and prison-industrial complex.
To continue my work, I am asking that generous, wonderful
people help me from being a starving writer, and donate to help keep
all the basic "architecture" necessary afloat - that's
office space, food and coffee. I appreciate donations more than you know!
Writer Biography:
I am a California-born, Oregon-raised, US/Italian dual national
living in Warsaw, Poland. I have been previously published [Prison
As Power: Being & State Contra Negativity & Notion]. For
several years I worked as a union organiser in the US. I was a
Communications Director at Occupy Wall Street. My undergraduate work
focused on sociology, psychology and English. After moving to
Europe, I then studied—eclectically and informally—for several
years, philosophy, spacial relations and psychoanalysis at the
Architectural Association in London. I am gay and an ex-Jehovah’s
Witness (Charles Taze Russell comes up in the book!)
Current Project:
Novel [full encounters with infinite nothingness / or Midlands
& West] The novel follows one Jeffrey R Midlands as an
autobiographical anchor. He drifts off for a bit, and the reader is
guided through the complex relationship between two strong women
protagonists—a white, upper class middle/aged lesbian VR-designer
from Australia, Dr Joanne Milner, working on harm reduction
techniques, haptics and interfaces for pedophiles and a younger
Black, middle-class polymath, Jessica West, who is a cybernetics and
physics graduate from the University of Nebraska. She grew up in
Chicago. Midlands is from Oregon, but lives mostly in Europe. Both
of their lives converge in Nebraska and later in Shanghai—after
several traumas—and the story unfolds with the themes of plutocracy,
climate crises, collapse of US empire, Next Gen, Gen Z,
cyber/interface, race and retro-causation (two-state vector
formalism) and a dramatic—Carrington Event ending, which is revealed
to be the central and guiding theme in the book.
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