Issue 18

Of Passageways and Portals

11.05.2020 - 06.10.2020

Over the last few weeks, a fear of uncertainty has been weaved with endless reflections that try to explain what we are experiencing as societies. Globality in crisis: we again perceive the acceleration of anthropocentric history from the narrative tension that arise between the confusion resulting from confinement, and the speed of the media opposing the pandemic’s haphazardness. We then replicate a question asked by Donna Haraway: How can we think in times of urgencies without the self-indulgent and self-fulfilling myths of the apocalypse, when every fiber of our being is interlaced, even complicit, in the webs of processes that must somehow be engaged and repatterned? Departing from this, we ask ourselves, what narrative displacements can artistic practices and thoughts propose in these circumstances for the intertwining of meanings fractured by the colonial logic that threatens with totalitarianism?

The global crisis confirms the power of now, so it is necessary to problematize the singularities that inhabit the damaged living worlds to collectively find ourselves in a trance state that results from the cessation of a material dimension of our lives. Inhabiting the not-knowing from feeling/thinking: displacing the universal all-encompassing and all-understanding reason as a starting point to accommodate the power of the senses that we embody from latent rage and urgency. Following Walidah Imarisha, we invite you then to unfold reflections that depart from personal intuition to recognize vulnerabilities that intertwine exercises of a powerful imagination of the forthcoming. We are not looking for futures, neither universal nor one-way, enunciated from the privilege of the “post-pandemic”, but rather astral journeys to multidimensional meetings of stories that reflect a multiplicity of urgencies, concerns, banalities, failures, and joys; a polyphonic temporality of those powerful possibilities despite capitalism. How do we arouse senses of collective urgency committed to the resistance of the reproduction of normalization and the articulation of dissident micropolitics from substantially planetary radical imaginations?

A constellation of forthcomings. From Passageways And Portals, it is, then, a call to feel/think together these strange days accompanying us through valuable self/reflections. Texts requested from authors from our community, outstanding contributions from the call we launched a few weeks ago, as well as translations of texts that it seems important to translate into Spanish, make up this issue. Like an incomplete blog, it is a reminder that we are sensible in darkness.

 

Image: Lucas Lugarinho, The Future, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 90 x 140 cm. Image courtesy of the artist

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Lucas Lugarinho, The Future, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 90 x 140 cm. Image courtesy of the artist

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