Anticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman Robert Powell ‘the assassin bug’) that shapes

‘the assassin bug’) that shapes how we see

And so I sing along

Ioney Smallhorne

He brings to bear a sharp ear for the absurd coupled with a sure footed clarity and grace of speech

‘The bloody mess of individuals – / plastic stuff outside an abandoned tent’

Anticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman Robert Powell ‘the assassin bug’) that shapesAnticulturalist Manifesto by Joe Shooman is a volatile, confrontational tract that gleefully atomises authorship, culture and interpretation in favour of a self cancelling absolutism. Written in scorched earth prose and aphoristic blasts, the text performs its own contradictions as it asserts that truth is provisional, ownership illusory, and meaning the preserve of the single, sovereign reader or writer, as it suits them. Shooman synthesises