Let’s Stab Caesar! is an anti-elitist magazine publishing art with fangs. In an economy driven by the interests of the few, all of culture is bound up with who controls resources and who dictates what has value. We are not dealing with matters of personal taste, but rather of systems that favor a particular branding of aesthetics to maintain control of the subjective lives of a population, who become increasingly alienated from their humanity and their capacity to lead a life of sincerity, awe, and beauty.

With this in mind, we want fangs that cut into and cut out of the command of the dominating culture industry. We want to foreground material and exploitative relations through art that sets ablaze conventions and deranges class hierarchy, art that isn’t afraid to tap into the uncomfortable. There is no standing outside of the world, but from within we may foster clarity of the systems that engulf us. Our magazine platforms art—textual, visual, audial—that extends beyond mere personal expression and elitist comfort, and emerges from the point at which desire meets world.

Necessary consequences of this are experimentation and transgression. Our vision of an art collective is unbound from the limiting institutions of form and genre, which serve only to make art more marketable. Give us work that politically and aesthetically resists the literary/art status quo and opens up challenging questions about the world that this status quo muffles. Give us art that chews up and spits out preconceived beliefs about empire, class, beauty, and sexuality. Give us language that doesn’t hold back from agonizing, eroticizing, destabilizing, and overthrowing all that claims to be sacred. We want to taste the blood in your mouth. Let’s plunge our blades into the powers that hold us back from blooming; let’s stab Caesar!

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