blast
blast: blast effect, shock wave, radical attack.
blast: that which germinates, takes root, grows, parasitises, develops, engenders.
Blast is committed to publishing political essays and creative writing that explore the interconnection between oppression and struggle, opening up new perspectives from the field of anti-racist, feminist, queer and anarchist resistance.
As committed readers who are passionate and concerned about these issues, we are committed to literature that offers perspectives on society, its representations, its mechanisms of domination and the revolts it sees emerging; literature that is a voice, aware of the position from which it speaks, illuminating its context as much as it is illuminated by it. And also literature that is memory and opening, echoes of what has passed, attentively listening to what is happening and sketching out what might be. Literature that never becomes a pretext; it remains free, alive, autonomous. blast publishes novels, poetry, essays and hybrid forms that feed into committed analysis while offering incisive writing that radically questions reflexes and norms as well as language itself.
The text does not exist alone: we want blast to be part of a dynamic that strengthens solidarity and independence within the world of books. For example, we are continuing to reflect on the amount and duration of authors’ rights and do not imagine working without bookshops, which are places of emulation and circulation of books and ideas that are still necessary today.
Contact : Sol & Karima