REFUSE: A JOURNAL OF ICONOCLASMS

REFUSE: A Journal of Iconoclasms (ISSN: 2767-1194) embraces the multidimensional and ambiguous meaning of the term “refuse.” To refuse is to be unwilling to do or perform that which one considers unacceptable. Refuse is matter that has been thrown away, deemed worthless. To re(-)fuse is to bond together that which has been broken; to repair. Iconoclasm is the intentional destruction of traditional cultural images, monuments, and doctrines. Places from which the force of authority and discipline emanates are, from the perspective of iconoclasts, the ruins of tradition. In our refusal of the dominant, default and disciplinary, we reclaim and celebrate cultural productions and forms of knowing that have been trashed and neglected, and in doing so repair the severed connections in our collective mycelium, fertilizing possibilities for new life in the ruins.

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Premises we like:
― Art has the capacity to create a disturbing dissonance with the apparent natural givenness of the world.
― Art is capable of reflecting society’s disavowed negativity back to it, but in a perverted (weirdly, paradoxically affirmative?) way.

REFUSE presents poetry, fiction, jokes & riddles, music, music-image-video, spoken word, photography, photographic essays, scholarship, interviews (spoken or written), etymologies, commentaries, schizo-fragments, journal entries real or fictional, screeds, manifestos, arguments, and more. Work it up in whatever form you see fit. It really doesn’t matter, as long as it lives, shits, snorts, cracks, crashes, breathes, bleeds — and refuses.
(Artwork: Carlos Cavalie)

Inaugural Letter
The Refusal Turn
Natalia Smirnov

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