Let’s Stab Caesar! is an independent literary & art magazine, publishing art with fangs. We want to bite into and tear out of the command of the dominating culture industry. 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.

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. We like satire, but also sincerity: we want works that might be a bit too risqué for an elite publication, but that take risks in a way that’s sincere and compelling (and we do take particular interest when there’s a working-class focus).

Necessary consequences of our agenda 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. Get your hands a little dirty; terrorize the page, distort the senses, devour any 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. Plunge your blades into all that holds us back from blooming; let’s stab Caesar!

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