With a focus on postcolonial thought and writing, we will delve into an esoteric collection of ergodic literature including excerpts from magical-realist-fiction, parser-text games, olupian texts and nonsense verse - and trace the structures and techniques that create room within a narrative to challenge the implicit hegemony of an author or an authoritarian tradition. Participants can bring texts with them that we can analyse during the workshop, and Dhruv will prepare a folder of translated poems, writings and games that will be shared prior to the workshop. A writing exercise will be interwoven with the main body of the talk, where the participants will be writing very short sections of a nebulous text that will reassemble each time we read it.