TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phrydas, JH
AB  - "In 2008,  JH Phrydas wrote a story about how bodies talk without words. He wanted the story to not just describe the silent ritual of nonverbal communication but to perform it. The interaction would be visceral – the exchange melancholic, yet full of lust. He wanted words to retain the unsayable: the subtle movements of a body in heat. In the years since, Phrydas kept rewriting this story, using different techniques, different syntaxes and forms, in hopes that he would find a successful method of gestural writing.    Imperial Physique is a collection of these attempts. They explore the way our bodies hover between animal and human, civil and wild. The bleakness – and underlying verve – of imagining Western empires in decline serve as a backdrop for a lone figure searching city streets, decaying architecture, and sand dunes for some type of physical connection. What arises is the loss of – and longing for – touch at the edges of imperialism, historical violence, and personal shame."
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0268.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006335
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135845484
KW  - queer studies
KW  - LGBT studies
KW  - cruising
KW  - writing
KW  - desire
KW  - sexuality
KW  - theory fiction
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6411f3ef-4f1f-49c8-bec6-07a716826877/0268.1.00.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23804
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781950192540
SN  - 9781950192533
TI  - Imperial Physiquenull
ER  - 
