LIKE A FEVER

Essays

Not Nothing, Not Enough

Vijay Masharani writes about being gaslit by their psychoanalyst, and the nagging suspicion that racial thinking puts us on the slow road to madness

Exit Time: An Essay in Two Parts

Karno Dasgupta argues against reparative historiographies, and ruminates on “the look of love” through Sim Chi Yin’s photography

now we think: as we fuck

K’eguro Macharia ruminates on how sex is siloed from life, and how we are as much our fantasies as we are our realities

Making Stock, Taking Stock

Nereya Otieno shares her recipe for homemade chicken stock, while ruminating on the alchemical nature of time

Conversations

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A Mouthful of Cloud (working title)

Jen Liu speaks with Freya Chou about Xenobots and Anthrobots, microlabour, Chinese American sex workers, and more

Aligning with Desire

Hà Đào and Jennifer Yang on leaving an imprint, and sustaining photographic and archival practices in Vietnam

What Sickness You Can Live With

Trisha Low, Hay, and tshirt speak with us on feeling their way through worlds, proximal intimacies, and writing both in and about fandom

Gambles Against Time

Sarp Renk Özer of AVTO speaks with Merve Ünsal on cultivating arts organisations from scratch, and helping them survive

Poetry & Fiction

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Play/Time

Daryl Li explores tabletop and video games through an experimental text on resistance, agency, catastrophe, and finding some semblance of human connection

If they were fragments, make each piece sharp

Clementine Hei-man Cheung shares fragments on negotiating illness and relapse, via recollections from Greece, Scotland, Hong Kong, and from within

cherub face in whiskey crate

Lucienne Bestall traces an object’s transmutation from historical detritus to contemporary artwork, reflecting on preservation and destruction as twinned impulses

Elsewhere

Urvi Kumbhat shares a poem on return without nostalgia, desires playing truant, and living in the ellipses between countries

Notes

Dispatches, briefs, experiments, research reports, image galleries, travelogues, and more

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The Vaguely Asian Reader, 1–4

AAAinA’s “Vaguely Asian” Leadership Camp, led by Simon Wu and Daniel Chew, shares four collaborative zines exploring aesthetics, colonialism, solidarity, translation, and more

1_Poon

Charis Poon gives the textual equivalent of “reaction videos“ to excerpts from Ursula K Le Guin, revealing shifting desires and identities over time in this eight-part series

Waiting

Anushka Jasraj speculates about everyday encounters with plants, psychoanalysis, and varied experiences of time during crises

Temporal Text

Furen Dai charts shifts in language within US census forms across several decades, which speak to larger social transformations

Series

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ARTIST REACTS TO FEMINIST WRITINGS MASHUP TEXT

Charis Poon gives the textual equivalent of “reaction videos“ to excerpts from Ursula K Le Guin, revealing shifting desires and identities over time in this eight-part series

What Time Tells

An ongoing series on time and the problems we face today

The Stakes of Naming

A series that asks an array of writers and artists what they need to say to live

out of focus

A series exploring ways to traverse the fog of unknowingness

LIKE A FEVER

ARTIST REACTS TO FEMINIST WRITINGS MASHUP TEXT

The Vaguely Asian Reader, 1–4

now we think: as we fuck

Making Stock, Taking Stock

After the Revolutions: Inheriting Tragedy

Essays

Not Nothing, Not Enough

Exit Time: An Essay in Two Parts

now we think: as we fuck

Making Stock, Taking Stock

Conversations

A Mouthful of Cloud (working title)

Aligning with Desire

What Sickness You Can Live With

Gambles Against Time

Poetry & Fiction

Play/Time

If they were fragments, make each piece sharp

cherub face in whiskey crate

Elsewhere

Notes

The Vaguely Asian Reader, 1–4

1_Poon

Waiting

Temporal Text

Series

ARTIST REACTS TO FEMINIST WRITINGS MASHUP TEXT

What Time Tells

The Stakes of Naming

out of focus