Ergastulum

<p>There is no single theme that binds together <em>Ergastulum</em>'s collaged poems essay-fragments diary entries and dream sequences. An experiment in longing for collective duration yearning for touch in an embrace between friends and the desire for meaningful social change <em>Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time</em> is Azad Ashim Sharma's first full-length collection of hybrid writing. As the product of a reading practice and an attempt at reclaiming embodiment from the atomising of time in an increasingly digital workplace<em> Ergastulum</em> formed during the pandemic whilst reading Byung Chul-Han Lewis R. Gordon Fred Moten Jacques Derrida Nathaniel Mackey and Karen Barad. This is auto-theory as lyric amalgam; a collection of thresholds along the desire lines of otherhood; a prayer against the onslaught of capital's deracination of time itself; an incantation or spell cast out by turning the page into the open space of streets populated by protest.</p>