Author Description

"Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, gathers five new pieces of writing by grantees that take on home as the unruly site of inheritance, memory, and imagination. In "Ejecta," Ari Larissa Heinrich reflects on artist Jes Fan's melanin sculptures and the geology of metaphoric language. Tan Lin's "The Fern Rose Bibliography" is a meditation on the loss of his parents through an olfactory exploration of his family's books. M. Neelika Jayawardane's "'This is not the correct history'" questions the evidentiary nature of documentary photography foregrounding the slippery ethics of reading images of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. In "He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love," William E. Jones closely reads the fascist iconography in the films of Kenneth Anger for their prescient, unnerving connections to our contemporary political moment. In "Racial Chain of Being," Shaka McGlotten updates the chart of representations that was Donna Haraway's provocation in "A Cyborg Manifesto," in the process forging connections between familial legacy, Black radicalism, and the classroom."--Pradeep Dalal and Shiv Kotecha, Editors.