Positions 13: 1, Duke University Press: 2005

Melancholic and sickly, this is a tirade -- a manifesto --  on the political eventness the event called 'en passant', the subtle move of pawn capturing king.  Of course the question remains: who is pawn, and with it, who is king (but, then if you're asking that question, it's only the king and his/her army who might be caught unawares who has the power and who does  not. Pawns always know their place, it would seem.  The question becomes, can one emerge out of the binaric divide (friend/enemy, pawn/king) or is this pathway only open to those artists and mid-class chess moves who defy the odds (and thus create new ones). Not just a 21st century issue.