angelicism01 reading list prelude

for those who wish to talk about angelicism01

Non-reading. Those with a passion against 01 say that whatever 01 writes has been written before, either by young girls, or by Tao Lin, or by Heidegger, or by Derrida. They may be right and we the young angelicists may be blind to every emulation in what I insist remains an admirable body of work.

Unreading. This body of work exists on the same internet as the trendsick scrollers who have come to consider this whole thing “over” and misread it as a mid-pandemic “work of art,” one that rose from and terminated in the same deathbed as “charlotte fang.”

A “work of art” from this perspective becomes quaint and an artefact as soon as the terrifying “moment” of its newness passes, becomes inscrutable to any mind surviving it in time, begs for defense in its defenselessness, so defenseless that it is not even worth attacking.

Openness. Defenseless, but they also consider Angelicism01 a coward, a pseudonym cowardice. The impossibility of a literal vis-a-vis with 01 would make this entity mercilessly criminal, because it would exempt 01 from the bracketing of warfare that arises necessarily from encounters in the new york party circuit. Levinas in the most cynical interpretation prevails, and with every party the nakedfaced writers establish expanding territories of exception to the warzone. But to me 01’s writing has the effect of a face.

Or in other words, Angelicism01 grew most famous for its misericorde attacks, and not for its defenseless openness. This list will prove that the pseudonym acts not just as a shield, but also as a face.