hive Being: M. A. Istvan Jr.'s Academic and Creative Writing

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Toaster Knife (ROUND 3)
Let's workshop this poem that explores themes of sexual tension and power dynamics between a man—protector, yet predator—and a young girl—innocent, yet…
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White Supremacy on Its Deathbed (Full Book, Day 7)
Let's workshop my book-length lyrical essay (White Supremacy on Its Deathbed), which aims to promote genuine black empowerment by exposing the harmful…
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The Tip (Round 6)
Let's workshop this poem (with audio from the poet) where two men debate what constitutes going too far during a session with an infant prize paid for…
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My OnlyFans Ban
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Special Lynch Post
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The Universal Nature of a Spinozistic Substance (Journal of Spinoza Studies)
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Christmas 1987
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Chapter 1 of White Supremacy on Its Deathbed: Gator Bait
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Pareidolia
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Indigenous Inferior (Punching Down, Way Down)
Here is the Native-American diss track (YouTube link below). Remember, it is rapped from the perspective of a character I call "John Smith." John Smith…
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Diani (Round 2)
Let’s workshop this poem (a personal fav!) about a man who, by some pheromone or vibration, keeps attracting Gen-Z potheads who like to be choked—choked…
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The Universal Nature of a Spinozistic Substance (Journal of Spinoza Studies)
Dr. Istvan's argument for the claim that a realist conception of universals is a key presumption behind Spinoza’s case for substance monism
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La mort de l'auteur, encore
Let's workshop this poem about how various technological disruptions of traditional stardom could trigger an artistic renaissance where artists…
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MADE FOR YOU AND ME 2: hive Being (Stanzas 2017—part 20)
Let's workshop this stanza sequence about cocaine, karma, avalanches, botched circumcisions, hawks, alcoholism, childbirth, divorce, graffiti, Thanatos…
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Beat it Up, Nigga—Catch a Charge
Let's workshop this poem about the challenge of trusting men when, on top of their jungle urges, pop culture plays two main chords: hypersex and…
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Hey, Nineteen (ROUND 2)
Let’s workshop this story, which takes place mainly on the first hole of a mini-golf course in the mid-1980s, where a baby-boomer man struggles to see…
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hive Being: M. A. Istvan Jr.'s Academic and Creative Writing
hive Being: M. A. Istvan Jr.'s Academic and Creative Writing
a literary unfolding of the hive Being of which we—like black holes and broken beliefs, like fractal ferns and flickering flames—are the necessitated expressions
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