Bolshevik,Worker,Revenant|Absent Cause
I’m not even sure how I started reading Absent Cause, or discovered redguard. Maybe redguard discovered me, we crossed paths online somehow and an issue of Absent Cause found its way into my hands about a year ago. And it was very cool: honest confessional writing, candor, examination. Body image, beauty, recovery, trust, pressure, conformity, identity, depression, parenting. redguard is, above all else, open. He lays it out, puts himself in there to be looked at as he examines himself. redguard explains the title, Absent Cause: “While reading Reynold Humphries’ excellent book, The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, I became fascinated by the formulation of history as the “absent cause” under capitalism – the “Real” that cannot be acknowledged, especially in the U.S., at the cost of exposing to the working class the exploitative (and unnecessary) nature of the whole system. Continue Reading…
