Rimming the Event Horizon

Author: Sabeen Chaudhry

Publisher: The 87 Press (2023)

Rimming the Event Horizon gyrates a mutinous poetics of revenge, purposing contingency as a major mechanism of racialization but also as a source of resistance and refusal, of material and imaginative possibility. It is not really a punitive poetics but rather, "a constant, experimental exercise of antagonism," a brutally disruptive "xenogenerosity" (Harney and Moten).

This is a collection of many rotations, revolutions and revolts, from the lick of the cyclone to the whirl of a dervish; the flick of a dragon’s tail to the ultra-slow swirl of galaxies or precarious life circling the drain. Traversing metastable topologies of gender and race as complicitly mattered but also "out of control," Rimming the Event Horizon intra-venes in a universe(s) that must simultaneously avenge, and take revenge on itself. Looping the line between life and death, it dangles us over the edge headfirst, tongues out. . . .