SYMPTOM

I’m Pikthall, a theoretician, writer, and editor with a background in psychology.  I study the forces and structures that shape the natural world.  My work examines where thought, culture and nature converge and conflict. 

 
Imperative Papers  is the place where some of this work takes shape.  Papers are shaped by ongoing inquiry across several intellectual domains and the site publishes periodic speculative essays that explore pressing issues with honesty, rigor, and conceptual experimentation. 

Poetry in Imperative Papers  spans nearly two decades.  It ranges from autobiographical free verse narrative to conceptual-lyrical work focused on form, rhythm, relation, insight, and rhyme.

Imperative Papers  is digital archive and map of ongoing discovery. 

—DISCLAIMER—

*** The peculiar perspectives

presumptions and assumptions

or construed positions 

collected then collaged 

may constitute incidental 

or emergent revelations 

not intended in conception

or construction by

the charged.***