Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with dystopia
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The Great American Novel by Tim Barrus
Through all the dystopia, it was dawning on them, dystopia or no dystopia, the diaspora would be a tidal wave. There were no roads. – tim barrus
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Road Trip
I wake up in the morning with Romeo Void in my mouth. I will slit my wrists without coffee. Coffee. I go to work constructing Romeo. Knowing full well, the critics finally get the final say. Or do they. Get anything. Most of them will flog me (don’t even go…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times Says We Need More Cildren Or The Future Will Be A Nightmare The future is already a nightmare. Children. It’s biology that says This Is Good. But climate change puts pressure on things like water systems. It will be too hot for water to properly cool,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Post-apocalyptic cultures are supposed to be the products of fiction. Failed states. Failed people. Failed economic structures. Failed religions. Failed institutions. Failed individuals. Failed public policy. Or all of the above at the same time. It is the mystical belief that our species is impervious to failure that is a…
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Going Rogue
THEANTIFASTORIES every movement needs its heros/ every story in the shelf life of stories can become a legend/ even greece had its gods and sex and there is no god who is without guilt, treason, infidelity, murder, dystopia, and the apocalypse/ conflict, irony, rebellion, war, love, illicit love, a fetish,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Every time we turn around to face whatever wind that is coming at us, we hear voices of a predestined fate, laughing at us in a cataclysm of deprivation and corruption. We hear the voices behind that wind, pushing it, always telling us – we don’t matter, we are irrelevant,…
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i am pulling away from him with the camera
i am pulling away from him with the camera i remember pulling away from him with the camera/ i am actually pulling the camera back from the emptiness of his life/ he is a survivor, so fucking what/ we have made surviving into a heroic thing when, in fact, it’s…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I am never shocked. But I am shocked to see the photographs. This is called denial. This is called Nothing Happened. This is called death. Cultural denial begins with leadership. He’s steering himself. Only himself. He’s floundering. We did this to us. We must take responsibility for it. We bought…