Inscription is an exploration of the aesthetics of power
in relation to the task of writing. Here, in a time when the
neo-fascist spirit is casting a shadow across the political
culture, and when the possibility of meaningful political
discourse seems more and more remote because of it, there
is a relationship between the wealth of violence–war,
images of brutality–and the poverty of our communications.
There is a relationship between the denigration of thoughtfulness
as weakness, femininity, and gayness, and the impossibility
of halting the campaign of aggression that the U.S. has embarked
on, or of furthering stalled progress in the domain of civil
rights or economic justice.
