For the final installment in our Horror After Horror issue, guest co-editor Re’al Christian (@r_christian__) pens a Glossary entry defining “Revolt.” To revolt, “to be repulsed by.
To repel, deter, disgust,” as Christian writes, illuminates distinctive yet inextricably entwined definitions, reflecting our appetite for rebellion—romanticized by some, intrinsically feared by others, a necessity for many. The various historical depictions of rebellion across media carry similar contradictions—ones, as Christian explains, that are necessarily knotted up within “Revolt.” Click the link in the @artpapers bio to read this final text from Horror After Horror 🔗 While visiting ARTPAPERS.org, check out some of the other texts from the issue, which unpacks representations of the horrors haunting our past, present, and future. . . . Images: 1. TJ Shin (@t_j_shin), Anthropology of a Phytomorphist, 2021–2022, video, 14:05, [photo: courtesy of the artist] 2. Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, 1966, screenshot[courtesy of Tubi] 3. Sylvia Wynter, “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World,” unpublished.See it on Instagram ↗