Frank Garrett Online

Category: amerika

  • The Necessity of Contingency: On what is not inevitable, or party like it’s 1974

    In 1972 American voters overwhelmingly reelected Richard Nixon. That election remains one of the biggest, most decisive landslide victories in US history. Nixon garnered 520 electoral votes to Democrat candidate… more ›

  • The R-Word

    A couple of weeks ago I commemorated a girl who died in a car accident forty years ago when she was ten years old. We were friends. The car was… more ›

  • Rockin’ in the Cheap World: On the Limits of Rhetoric at the DNC

    I both love and hate rhetoric. The way it’s taught in philosophy departments, rhetoric and sophistry are the two great foes of philosophy. But in poetry and literature, there’s something… more ›

  • Mardi gras

    I learned the language of angels in a religious experience on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras 1987. One night I had decided to walk among the heathen so that my… more ›

  • Watching

    Despite watching hours of television every week, rarely do I watch it for entertainment’s sake alone. It’s one of my many failings as a human, as an American. Instead, I… more ›

  • Hiram Arnold

    For this Memorial Day, instead of visiting the grave of my Uncle Frank, who was killed in Vietnam three days before his twentieth birthday, or of my grandfather, whose body… more ›

  • World AIDS Day

    Instead of a day without art, I’d like to celebrate two of my favorite artists: David Wojnarowicz and Ron Athey. Both unapologetically queer. Both HIV+. Both demonized by fascist right-wing… more ›

  • The Poet in His Labyrinth

    “Criticism unfolds the possibility of freedom and is thus an invitation to action.” “Criticism tells us that we should learn to dissolve the idols, should learn to dissolve them within… more ›

  • SD1-989, or Why I Cried During the Slowdive Concert

    Slowdive Concert, Granada Theater, Dallas, April 2018 I see several concerts every year, and I recently saw Slowdive for the second time live. Near the end of the concert they… more ›

  • Books Read in 2017

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