Essays

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Fungal Memories: Flourishing in Decay

Benjamin Kidder Hodges employs fungus and mould to explore memory, decay, and the ability to thrive in extreme conditions and climates

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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

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The Masterpiece is the Archive

Sezin Romi evaluates the role of archives in art historiographies, ways of disrupting established narratives, and the significance of user engagement in expanding knowledge

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After the Revolutions: Inheriting Tragedy

Samer Frangie examines an impasse following the Arab revolutions, the out-of-jointness of time, and the concept of “afterness”

Conversations

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Aligning with Desire

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

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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

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From K-pop Fan to Translator: In Conversation with Shanna Tan

Shanna Tan discusses Korean healing fiction, the translation scene in Singapore, and the dream of starting her own bookstore

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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

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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

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

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Central Incisor

Jocelin Kee explores the relationships that surround a place, and what it means to care for objects

Notes

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

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

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BLOODHOUNDS MANIFESTO

Sam Chan and Paul C. Fermin keep their hands up and chin down

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Temporal Text

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

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3SUMS | what keeps you awake?

Minh Nguyen, Carlos Quijon, Jr., and Sharon Lee discuss private infernos, birdsongs, and the fluttering of a moth

Series

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What Time Tells

An ongoing series on time and the problems we face today

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The Stakes of Naming

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

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A series exploring ways to traverse the fog of unknowingness

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And We Begin Again

Writing from a year-long reading group on community, translation, and getting unstuck