How to Look at Shield Walls

Where we came from, on the wrong side of the suburb, it wasn’t cool to read. But we were both cool and popular and we did, and it was one of the ways we found each other. That and the fact that I plopped my drunk ass down on his lap at a party and flirted shamelessly with him, the oldest and coolest guy at the party, also very drunk. I was a wildling, for sure. We talked about books and basketball and baseball and blowjobs and then I gave him one right before he gave me the first orgasm I'd ever had from intercourse. At least that was what I thought it was from back then. He told me to read American Psycho and I did and I also ignored my bar customers in the two days it took me to read it while I texted him on a flip phone to talk about it, making sure what we were doing would continue. My thumbs stumbling over the S every time because 7 had four letters instead of three and it just didn’t make sense to me for it to be there, unbalanced. His thumbs stretching for my clit every time to make sure I continued to have that orgasm from intercourse, making sure what we were doing would continue.

Mass media also consists of various layers of meanings superimposed on one another, all of which contribute to their effect.… the hidden message may be more important than the overt, since the hidden message will escape the controls of consciousness…but is likely to sink into the spectator’s mind.

In 1944 Theodor Adorno warned of the “International threat of Fascism: progress is reverting to regression.” By the end of the first month of 2017, most would not deny regression’s occupation of the States. Fragmenting Fascisms, part battle cry, part homage to Adorno, will refuse ‘rational’ connections on the fourth Friday of the month. Zinn has an interdisciplinary background in Philosophy, Women's Studies & Literary Theory and works full time for Corporeal Writing. Find more of her writing at zinnadeline.com.