John Kinsella is widely known as an ‘international regionalist’, activist, anarchist, poet, novelist. As Nicolas Birns explains in the introduction to Kinsella and this particular novella, Pink Salt, this affords his work a kind of stretch across places and times, particulars and universals, region and the world system and its ecosystems. The publication of this work in Thesis Eleven is an auspicious occasion for us. The journal has long published writing about literature, its politics and performance. Here we present the act in literature itself. It is, as Birns shows, a kind of text where real is surreal, and the other way around. It offers an experiment in writing in politics that we hope opens new vistas, both closer to home and afar.

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粉红湖：约翰金塞拉的中篇小说

约翰金塞拉是众所周知的“国际区域主义者”、活动家、无政府主义者、诗人、小说家。正如尼古拉斯·伯恩斯 (Nicolas Birns) 在《金塞拉》和这部特殊的中篇小说《粉红盐》(Pink Salt) 的介绍中所解释的那样，这为他的作品提供了一种跨越地点和时间、特殊性和普遍性、地区和世界体系及其生态系统的延伸。这篇论文在第十一篇论文中的发表对我们来说是一个吉祥的时刻。该杂志长期以来一直发表有关文学、政治和表演的文章。在这里，我们展示了文学本身的行为。正如伯恩斯所展示的那样，它是一种真实与超现实的文本，反之亦然。它提供了一个政治写作实验，我们希望它打开新的视野，无论是在家还是在远方。