Ariel Riveros Pavez

Ariel Riveros Pavez

  • Flash Fiction: Houmed

    Home is a forest romance. House is linear. The wood panelling at my place is made of aluminum. Nice fake forest romance. Aluminium forests are growing. Reused brick appeals. I might get a fake chimney at mine churning out firewood… Continue reading

  • Memoir: Moveable Marronage

    Just checking out removalists for the final move. My housed moves started at emergency level Warwick Farm Grandstand Motel. What a dive. Then halfwaying at Harris Park where there was a Neo Nazi, a few ultrapatriots with southern cross tatts… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Poetry First

    Everywhere I go a poet has been before me – Sigmund Freud Dear Dr blablabla After close to a year of non compliance to state polypharmacy the transformation of my life has improved for the better. Tapering off was slow.… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Example of Truth Procedure

    I went through a bad spike last night. it lasted for about a minute. I wrote down the experience in a couple of paragraphs.my gambit is that if I name it as objectively as I can and sit through it… Continue reading

  • No-One Gets Left Behind: Consumer Neoliberalism and Lateral Violence

    “ALEA IACTA EST– Can Yucel Attila crossed the DanubeHannibal crossed the Alps Caesar crossed the Rubicon And I crossedMy selfBurning all the flowers behind me Translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat” As the article from Mad in America “The Angry Consumer”: Embracing Difficult… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: What is a Consumer Science?

    Though there may be calls to action to segue to quality psychiatry after all the normative community awareness campaigns are done, I can’t wait. The future of medicine is popularly called to be customised. I can’t wait.  The future of public mental… Continue reading

  • Poem: Postcodemixing

    . . . And then hes the biggest philanderer  and man-bitch out. Karma. He is. Optimistic about burrows  the neoprene the Castaic. Hum under my name.  Beard and muscles? You’re not holding  my breath away. Talk about the term  of… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Designer Insomnia, Chronobiopolitics and all that jazz

    The Foucauldian notion of history as power. The Baudrillardian notion of the hyperreal. Both share notion of historical or ontological pre-operative dispositif. power or simulation. Both thus have a type of engineering or enginality, design. Maybe architecture would denote too… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Re-Wilding

    “Some are investing a radical potential in the concepts of ‘wilding’ and ‘re-wilding’. This is only true when ‘generalised domestication’ represses the ‘wild’, which is not always the case. Indeed we can say that Trump today is presiding over the… Continue reading

  • Unrecovery: Mad Economics and the Neo Survey Monkeys

    I’m unsure what Ron Coleman meant to encapsulate by his notion of The Mad Economy. It looked like the hustle of self-employment. Having experience as a sole trader: arts event organiser, academic coach and publisher I’ve had a few years… Continue reading