Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for our first issue of Vestiges, Ex-Stasis. As literature feels an increasing need to justify itself, its relationship with beauty becomes ever more tenuous. The preoccupation with literature’s usefulness has severed its connection with the gratuitous and the unproductive, with terror and reckless eros—in short, with the realm of the aesthetic. For our inaugural issue, we will be looking for an aestheticism that is concerned with beauty as a very particular experience: that of the limit which defines us, which gives us form by delineating the safe boundaries where life manages its transactions, which moderates our behaviors and demands our obedience. We view beauty as a breakdown of these borders by an intensification of sensations, and from and through beauty we experience the decomposition of the body, the frenzy of copulation, the dissolute glory of the sacred, the decay of life, and the disappearance of existence. We intend to explore this relationship between literature and beauty with writing born from a horrible wakefulness that brings freedom to the depths of a restless aesthetic, that concentrates on a beauty outside of itself, a beauty of irregularity, abandonment and betrayal, a beauty that demands darkness […]
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