Kim Wonyoung
The Hand of a Primate Escaping a Building Where the Elevator Has Stopped
Paper No. 21 – April 2025
The elevator connecting the city’s ground level with the subway station is a crossroads of two worlds that otherwise could never meet. Inside the confined elevator space, elderly people, individuals with disabilities, children in strollers, and foreign tourists with suitcases come together. They look at each other with curiosity, compete, and converse. However, the elevator can always stop in an “emergency.” This potential for an emergency (exceptional state) proves that these two worlds are inevitably “para-.” Yet, it may only be when we acknowledge this potential as part of reality that the cracks between these “para-” worlds begin to form.
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Staci Bu Shea
Deeply Forgetful
Paper No. 18 – January 2025
The politics of remembering and forgetting is unsettling, to say the least. Together with emphasis on linear rationality, ableist contouring of normal bodyminds, and the throes of care work, we struggle to provide grace and dignity to those living with dementia. In this excerpt from their new book, Solution 305: Dying Livingly (Sternberg Press, 2025), Staci Bu Shea proposes that the “deeply remembering” could co-create and immerse themselves within cultural conceptions of reality buttressed around an ethos of care for our faulty memory and pliant identities.
PDF free download
Alexander Tarakhovsky
Love of Slow Pedaling
Paper No. 12 – Mai 2024
The future prospects for a few are different from the rest. While all of us are destined to die, our cells may live indefinitely if placed in the correct environment. There is data suggesting that the neurons of short-lived animals can become long-lived if placed inside the brains of long-lived animals. For example, the Greenland shark, which can live for approximately 500 years, may offer a solution for the future elite who seek to preserve their neurons within the shark’s brain to safeguard their memories from fading and potentially enable self-recreation several times over.
PDF free download
Filipa Ramos
Possible Love
Paper No. 9 – January 2024
This essay looks at what a film does to imagine what a film could do. Departing from the 1980s medieval fantasy film Ladyhawke, it looks at what kind of relationships and affects can emerge between a woman and a wolf, a man and a hawk, to wonder how love beyond the species divide may help to renew the way in which people connect to, care for and fit in the natural world.
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
PDF free download
Jovana Maksić and Jenna Sutela
Morris Water Temple
Paper No. 20 – March 2025
Our knowledge about the human brain is built on the sacrifices of countless laboratory rodents. Morris Water Temple is firstly dedicated to these animals. The story follows Pinky (3XTG- AD-M-BR-009), a transgenic mouse with Alzheimer’s, and Brain, a machine intelligence running an automated neuroscience laboratory. What Is It Like to Be a Lab Mouse? This is a meditation on sentience, memory and embodiment.
PDF free download
Clemens Driessen
Bumblebees and the Remaking of Tomato Worlds
Paper No. 17 – December 2024
Bumblebees have been made to radically reshape indoor tomato production over the past few decades. Successfully packaged to pollinate for year-round production, their incorporation into the contemporary greenhouse has arguably led to an increase in scale of horticulture as well as promoting a move away from chemical pest control. Meanwhile researchers are still learning about their abilities and experiences.
PDF free download
Ann Cotten
Letter from the Iron Matriarchy
Paper No. 11 – April 2024
A disillusioned guerrilla tries to describe the situation on Earth to an old friend who is considering remigration from Mars. Unsurprisingly, structural problems of a real existing queer feminism are a key topic.
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Kettly Mars
The Tyranny of the Future
Paper No. 8 – December 2023
What if the future was just a prison where we voluntarily locked ourselves up, praying to escape all forms of untimely deaths, while the powerful world leaders deprived us of today and its wonders? What if we ended the tyranny of the future?
PDF free download
Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
PDF free download
Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Kim de l’Horizon
Mountamorphosis
Paper No. 19 – February 2025
For as long as I can remember, the TV or other screens have been on to distract adults from winter, and with astonishing frequency these screens show some human or other thundering down some snowy slope. If one of these humans somehow manages to be a micro-fraction faster than the others—this micro-mini-fraction isn’t even perceptible to us; somehow, they’re always equally fast, but no bugger will admit that—then all or many of the people around me cheer. Part of this is a not-entirely-whispered national pride. “We” = ski people. And this “we” idolizes anyone who lets us feel the pride. “We” = for example, Marco Odermatt, our star Alpine ski racer. But why is that? Let’s talk about our national sport.
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Elfriede Jelinek
Chip ‘n’ Dale
Paper No. 16 – November 2024
Chip ‘n’ Dale, the two California chipmunks from those 1950s Micky Maus (Mickey Mouse) magazines, they loved each other so much. No need to lay claim to or even know the other’s sex; its availability to both is such a matter of course that it makes no difference. Each has one, sure—but they can also take on the other’s whenever they feel like it, nothing changes either way.
PDF free download
Ingo Niermann
Entering the Monadic Age
Paper No. 10 – March 2024
The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In this excerpt from his new book, The Monadic Age (Sternberg Press, 2024), Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism— that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters.
PDF free download
Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
Kim Wonyoung
The Hand of a Primate Escaping a Building Where the Elevator Has Stopped
Paper No. 21 – April 2025
The elevator connecting the city’s ground level with the subway station is a crossroads of two worlds that otherwise could never meet. Inside the confined elevator space, elderly people, individuals with disabilities, children in strollers, and foreign tourists with suitcases come together. They look at each other with curiosity, compete, and converse. However, the elevator can always stop in an “emergency.” This potential for an emergency (exceptional state) proves that these two worlds are inevitably “para-.” Yet, it may only be when we acknowledge this potential as part of reality that the cracks between these “para-” worlds begin to form.
PDF free download
Kim de l’Horizon
Mountamorphosis
Paper No. 19 – February 2025
For as long as I can remember, the TV or other screens have been on to distract adults from winter, and with astonishing frequency these screens show some human or other thundering down some snowy slope. If one of these humans somehow manages to be a micro-fraction faster than the others—this micro-mini-fraction isn’t even perceptible to us; somehow, they’re always equally fast, but no bugger will admit that—then all or many of the people around me cheer. Part of this is a not-entirely-whispered national pride. “We” = ski people. And this “we” idolizes anyone who lets us feel the pride. “We” = for example, Marco Odermatt, our star Alpine ski racer. But why is that? Let’s talk about our national sport.
PDF free download
Clemens Driessen
Bumblebees and the Remaking of Tomato Worlds
Paper No. 17 – December 2024
Bumblebees have been made to radically reshape indoor tomato production over the past few decades. Successfully packaged to pollinate for year-round production, their incorporation into the contemporary greenhouse has arguably led to an increase in scale of horticulture as well as promoting a move away from chemical pest control. Meanwhile researchers are still learning about their abilities and experiences.
PDF free download
Ann Cotten
Letter from the Iron Matriarchy
Paper No. 11 – April 2024
A disillusioned guerrilla tries to describe the situation on Earth to an old friend who is considering remigration from Mars. Unsurprisingly, structural problems of a real existing queer feminism are a key topic.
PDF free download
Filipa Ramos
Possible Love
Paper No. 9 – January 2024
This essay looks at what a film does to imagine what a film could do. Departing from the 1980s medieval fantasy film Ladyhawke, it looks at what kind of relationships and affects can emerge between a woman and a wolf, a man and a hawk, to wonder how love beyond the species divide may help to renew the way in which people connect to, care for and fit in the natural world.
PDF free download
Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
Jovana Maksić and Jenna Sutela
Morris Water Temple
Paper No. 20 – March 2025
Our knowledge about the human brain is built on the sacrifices of countless laboratory rodents. Morris Water Temple is firstly dedicated to these animals. The story follows Pinky (3XTG- AD-M-BR-009), a transgenic mouse with Alzheimer’s, and Brain, a machine intelligence running an automated neuroscience laboratory. What Is It Like to Be a Lab Mouse? This is a meditation on sentience, memory and embodiment.
PDF free download
Staci Bu Shea
Deeply Forgetful
Paper No. 18 – January 2025
The politics of remembering and forgetting is unsettling, to say the least. Together with emphasis on linear rationality, ableist contouring of normal bodyminds, and the throes of care work, we struggle to provide grace and dignity to those living with dementia. In this excerpt from their new book, Solution 305: Dying Livingly (Sternberg Press, 2025), Staci Bu Shea proposes that the “deeply remembering” could co-create and immerse themselves within cultural conceptions of reality buttressed around an ethos of care for our faulty memory and pliant identities.
PDF free download
Elfriede Jelinek
Chip ‘n’ Dale
Paper No. 16 – November 2024
Chip ‘n’ Dale, the two California chipmunks from those 1950s Micky Maus (Mickey Mouse) magazines, they loved each other so much. No need to lay claim to or even know the other’s sex; its availability to both is such a matter of course that it makes no difference. Each has one, sure—but they can also take on the other’s whenever they feel like it, nothing changes either way.
PDF free download
Alexander Tarakhovsky
Love of Slow Pedaling
Paper No. 12 – Mai 2024
The future prospects for a few are different from the rest. While all of us are destined to die, our cells may live indefinitely if placed in the correct environment. There is data suggesting that the neurons of short-lived animals can become long-lived if placed inside the brains of long-lived animals. For example, the Greenland shark, which can live for approximately 500 years, may offer a solution for the future elite who seek to preserve their neurons within the shark’s brain to safeguard their memories from fading and potentially enable self-recreation several times over.
PDF free download
Ingo Niermann
Entering the Monadic Age
Paper No. 10 – March 2024
The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In this excerpt from his new book, The Monadic Age (Sternberg Press, 2024), Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism— that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters.
PDF free download
Kettly Mars
The Tyranny of the Future
Paper No. 8 – December 2023
What if the future was just a prison where we voluntarily locked ourselves up, praying to escape all forms of untimely deaths, while the powerful world leaders deprived us of today and its wonders? What if we ended the tyranny of the future?
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Kim Wonyoung
The Hand of a Primate Escaping a Building Where the Elevator Has Stopped
Paper No. 21 – April 2025
The elevator connecting the city’s ground level with the subway station is a crossroads of two worlds that otherwise could never meet. Inside the confined elevator space, elderly people, individuals with disabilities, children in strollers, and foreign tourists with suitcases come together. They look at each other with curiosity, compete, and converse. However, the elevator can always stop in an “emergency.” This potential for an emergency (exceptional state) proves that these two worlds are inevitably “para-.” Yet, it may only be when we acknowledge this potential as part of reality that the cracks between these “para-” worlds begin to form.
PDF free download
Jovana Maksić and Jenna Sutela
Morris Water Temple
Paper No. 20 – March 2025
Our knowledge about the human brain is built on the sacrifices of countless laboratory rodents. Morris Water Temple is firstly dedicated to these animals. The story follows Pinky (3XTG- AD-M-BR-009), a transgenic mouse with Alzheimer’s, and Brain, a machine intelligence running an automated neuroscience laboratory. What Is It Like to Be a Lab Mouse? This is a meditation on sentience, memory and embodiment.
PDF free download
Kim de l’Horizon
Mountamorphosis
Paper No. 19 – February 2025
For as long as I can remember, the TV or other screens have been on to distract adults from winter, and with astonishing frequency these screens show some human or other thundering down some snowy slope. If one of these humans somehow manages to be a micro-fraction faster than the others—this micro-mini-fraction isn’t even perceptible to us; somehow, they’re always equally fast, but no bugger will admit that—then all or many of the people around me cheer. Part of this is a not-entirely-whispered national pride. “We” = ski people. And this “we” idolizes anyone who lets us feel the pride. “We” = for example, Marco Odermatt, our star Alpine ski racer. But why is that? Let’s talk about our national sport.
PDF free download
Staci Bu Shea
Deeply Forgetful
Paper No. 18 – January 2025
The politics of remembering and forgetting is unsettling, to say the least. Together with emphasis on linear rationality, ableist contouring of normal bodyminds, and the throes of care work, we struggle to provide grace and dignity to those living with dementia. In this excerpt from their new book, Solution 305: Dying Livingly (Sternberg Press, 2025), Staci Bu Shea proposes that the “deeply remembering” could co-create and immerse themselves within cultural conceptions of reality buttressed around an ethos of care for our faulty memory and pliant identities.
PDF free download
Clemens Driessen
Bumblebees and the Remaking of Tomato Worlds
Paper No. 17 – December 2024
Bumblebees have been made to radically reshape indoor tomato production over the past few decades. Successfully packaged to pollinate for year-round production, their incorporation into the contemporary greenhouse has arguably led to an increase in scale of horticulture as well as promoting a move away from chemical pest control. Meanwhile researchers are still learning about their abilities and experiences.
PDF free download
Elfriede Jelinek
Chip ‘n’ Dale
Paper No. 16 – November 2024
Chip ‘n’ Dale, the two California chipmunks from those 1950s Micky Maus (Mickey Mouse) magazines, they loved each other so much. No need to lay claim to or even know the other’s sex; its availability to both is such a matter of course that it makes no difference. Each has one, sure—but they can also take on the other’s whenever they feel like it, nothing changes either way.
PDF free download
Alexander Tarakhovsky
Love of Slow Pedaling
Paper No. 12 – Mai 2024
The future prospects for a few are different from the rest. While all of us are destined to die, our cells may live indefinitely if placed in the correct environment. There is data suggesting that the neurons of short-lived animals can become long-lived if placed inside the brains of long-lived animals. For example, the Greenland shark, which can live for approximately 500 years, may offer a solution for the future elite who seek to preserve their neurons within the shark’s brain to safeguard their memories from fading and potentially enable self-recreation several times over.
PDF free download
Ann Cotten
Letter from the Iron Matriarchy
Paper No. 11 – April 2024
A disillusioned guerrilla tries to describe the situation on Earth to an old friend who is considering remigration from Mars. Unsurprisingly, structural problems of a real existing queer feminism are a key topic.
PDF free download
Ingo Niermann
Entering the Monadic Age
Paper No. 10 – March 2024
The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In this excerpt from his new book, The Monadic Age (Sternberg Press, 2024), Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism— that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters.
PDF free download
Filipa Ramos
Possible Love
Paper No. 9 – January 2024
This essay looks at what a film does to imagine what a film could do. Departing from the 1980s medieval fantasy film Ladyhawke, it looks at what kind of relationships and affects can emerge between a woman and a wolf, a man and a hawk, to wonder how love beyond the species divide may help to renew the way in which people connect to, care for and fit in the natural world.
PDF free download
Kettly Mars
The Tyranny of the Future
Paper No. 8 – December 2023
What if the future was just a prison where we voluntarily locked ourselves up, praying to escape all forms of untimely deaths, while the powerful world leaders deprived us of today and its wonders? What if we ended the tyranny of the future?
PDF free download
Jumana Emil Abboud
Where did the mountain go?
Paper No. 7 – November 2023
A multi-authoured folk tale in the future adapted from the Palestinian folk tale “Gazelle.” Abboud channels her childhood memory, as well as the expansive community of women storytellers and a chatbot AI in the remaking of the original tale.
PDF free download
Sonia Fernández Pan
The Ultimate Dancers
Paper No. 6 – October 2023
After a major crisis, the energy produced by dancing bodies inside clubs is stored and used as a local resource. The characters in this story are aware of the ambiguity of their work, but they are mostly driven by the pleasure and community-making when dancing. What’s more, their routine hints at a society where friendship and communal living is
a widespread practice.
PDF free download
Ran Zhang
My Slippery Minds
Paper No. 5 – September 2023
Ran Zhang’s narrator lives in the year 2123 and is the descendent of an ancient East Asian grey-zoner. She sits in an armchair, resting on a regular afternoon, analyzing things around her in the middle of the known and unknown, and letting her mind drift between awake criticism, cognitive self-doubt, pseudo-rationality and illusive absurdity. The text is written as a response to experiencing the mental states of citizens in authoritarian societies.
PDF free download
Ronnie Vuine
Do Not Align
Paper No. 4 – August 2023
A superintelligence is “one of us” from the moment it emerges. It is more connected, epistemically and normatively, to any one part of humanity (evil or good) than the parts of humanity are connected to each other. The humanity that could potentially restrain superintelligences does not exist.
PDF free download
Amanda E. Metzger
Identity Sandboxing
Paper No. 3 – June 2023
The research project SCION suggests a new Internet architecture of largely separate subnetworks, so-called Isolation Domains. This approach is taken as the scaffold for thought experiments on how to help artists by providing more privacy and security. Isolation Domains could separate the different domains of an artist’s life—allowing for more vulnerability to be shared.
PDF free download
Onome Ekeh
Future Fashion Week
Paper No. 2 – June 2023
Future Fashion Week is an ephemeral event. A noetic device designed to capture your attention and attune it to a greater purpose than merely enhancing your sartorial experience (even though this is also important and instrumental to our cause).
PDF free download
Karin Pittman
Conversations With Slime
Paper No. 1 – June 2023
Slime contains antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial substances and triggers for the wider immune system. Slime has protected all aquatic organisms through evolution, and has ended up lining our guts as a continuation of its constant companionship. It is the great mediator. Respect the slime even if you cannot understand it.
PDF free download
