aliwen
The Sapphic Latex of Itō Tari
Paper No. 22 – June 2025
ITŌ Tari (1951-2021) was a Japanese performance artist, known for contributing to different feminist projects with the intention of connecting and documenting the works and lives of women artists throughout Southeast and East Asia. Being one of the first openly lesbian artists in Japan, her own identity was often an integral part of her performances, which tended to utilize everyday objects and materials in unconventional ways that altered the artist’s own body. The following essay can be understood as a material micro history, following Itō’s formation as a physical artist, her unraveling of the concept of “epidermis” through her performances in the late 80s and early 90s, and her usage of Regitex S-500 latex rubber as a conduit for bodily transformation.
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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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잉고 니어만
단자적(單子的) 시대로의 진입
Paper No. 10 – 2024년 3월
지금의 세계는 민주주의와 독재, 정치적 각성과 포퓰리즘적 정체성 정치,부유층과 빈곤층, 지속적인 환경 착취, 기후 변화와 같은 심각한 문제 등을 둘러싼 갈등이 심화되는 양상을 보인다. 잉고 니어만은 자신의 신간 『Monadic Age』(Sternberg Press, 2024)에서 발췌한 이 글에서 자동화와 인공지능의 급속한 발전에 따라 다양한 위기가 자유주의 시대를 뒤엎고 모든 사회적 변수를 재창조하는 새로운 자기충족의 패러다임, 즉 모나디즘을 통해 정점에 이를 것이라고 주장한다.
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김원영
엘리베이터가 멈춘 건물을 빠져나가는 영장류의 손
Paper No. 21 – 2025년 4월
도심 지상과 지하철역을 잇는 엘리베이터는 그것이 아니라면 연결될 수 없었을 두 세계(para-words)의 교차점이다. 좁은 엘리베이터 공간 안에서 노인과 장애인이, 유아차에 탄 아이가, 여행가방을 든 외국인 관광객이 만난다. 이들은 서로에게 호기심 을 품고, 경쟁하고, 대화를 나눈다. 그러나 엘리베이터는 ‘비상상황’에서 언제나 멈출 수 있다. 이 비상상황(예외상태)의 가능성이 두 세계가 언제나 ‘para-’할 수밖에 없음을 입증하는 것 같다. 하지만 바로 이 가능성을 현실의 일부로 인정할 때야 말로, ‘para-’ 세계들 사이의 균열이 시작되는 지점일지도 모른다.
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스테이시 부 셰이
깊은 망각의 사람들
Paper No. 18 – 2025년 1월
기억과 망각의 정치학은 불안정하기 이를 데 없다. 선형적 합리성이 강조되고,정상성의 기준이 능력주의적 관점에서 형성되며, 돌봄 노동이 고통의 영역으로 머무는 가운데, 우리는 치매를 앓는 이들에게 존엄과 배려를 제공하기 위해 분투하고 있다. 이 글은 《Solution 305: 살아가며 죽어가기》(스턴버그 프레스, 2025)에서 발췌되었다. 스테이시 부 시어는 ‘깊이 기억하는 이들’이 우리의 불완전한 기억과 유연한 정체성을 돌보는 윤리를 바탕으로 한 문화적 현실 개념을 함께 창조하고 그 안에 몰입할 수 있다고 제안한다.
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알렉산더 타라코프스키
ुुயாીˡாԙʼா č߽ா،ϤƖ
Paper No. 12 – Mai 2024
초소수의 사람을 위한 미래의 전망은 나머지 사람과는 다르다. 우리 모두는 죽을 수 밖에 없는 운명에 놓여 있지만, 우리의 세포는 올바른 환경에 놓이기만 하면 영원히 살 수 있을지 모른다. 데이터에 따르면, 수명이 짧은 동물의 뉴런을 수명이 긴 동물의 뉴런에 이식할 경우 오래 살 수 있을지도 모른다. 예를 들어 그린란드상어는 약 500년 을 사는데, 이는 상어의 뇌 안에 자신의 뉴런을 넣어 보존함으로써 기억이 퇴색하는 것 을 방지하고 잠재적으로는 여러 차례에 걸쳐 자기 재창조를 하려는 미래의 엘리트에게 하나의 해결책이 될 수도 있다.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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).
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aliwen
The Sapphic Latex of Itō Tari
Paper No. 22 – June 2025
ITŌ Tari (1951-2021) was a Japanese performance artist, known for contributing to different feminist projects with the intention of connecting and documenting the works and lives of women artists throughout Southeast and East Asia. Being one of the first openly lesbian artists in Japan, her own identity was often an integral part of her performances, which tended to utilize everyday objects and materials in unconventional ways that altered the artist’s own body. The following essay can be understood as a material micro history, following Itō’s formation as a physical artist, her unraveling of the concept of “epidermis” through her performances in the late 80s and early 90s, and her usage of Regitex S-500 latex rubber as a conduit for bodily transformation.
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
스테이시 부 셰이
깊은 망각의 사람들
Paper No. 18 – 2025년 1월
기억과 망각의 정치학은 불안정하기 이를 데 없다. 선형적 합리성이 강조되고,정상성의 기준이 능력주의적 관점에서 형성되며, 돌봄 노동이 고통의 영역으로 머무는 가운데, 우리는 치매를 앓는 이들에게 존엄과 배려를 제공하기 위해 분투하고 있다. 이 글은 《Solution 305: 살아가며 죽어가기》(스턴버그 프레스, 2025)에서 발췌되었다. 스테이시 부 시어는 ‘깊이 기억하는 이들’이 우리의 불완전한 기억과 유연한 정체성을 돌보는 윤리를 바탕으로 한 문화적 현실 개념을 함께 창조하고 그 안에 몰입할 수 있다고 제안한다.
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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.
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잉고 니어만
단자적(單子的) 시대로의 진입
Paper No. 10 – 2024년 3월
지금의 세계는 민주주의와 독재, 정치적 각성과 포퓰리즘적 정체성 정치,부유층과 빈곤층, 지속적인 환경 착취, 기후 변화와 같은 심각한 문제 등을 둘러싼 갈등이 심화되는 양상을 보인다. 잉고 니어만은 자신의 신간 『Monadic Age』(Sternberg Press, 2024)에서 발췌한 이 글에서 자동화와 인공지능의 급속한 발전에 따라 다양한 위기가 자유주의 시대를 뒤엎고 모든 사회적 변수를 재창조하는 새로운 자기충족의 패러다임, 즉 모나디즘을 통해 정점에 이를 것이라고 주장한다.
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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
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
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
김원영
엘리베이터가 멈춘 건물을 빠져나가는 영장류의 손
Paper No. 21 – 2025년 4월
도심 지상과 지하철역을 잇는 엘리베이터는 그것이 아니라면 연결될 수 없었을 두 세계(para-words)의 교차점이다. 좁은 엘리베이터 공간 안에서 노인과 장애인이, 유아차에 탄 아이가, 여행가방을 든 외국인 관광객이 만난다. 이들은 서로에게 호기심 을 품고, 경쟁하고, 대화를 나눈다. 그러나 엘리베이터는 ‘비상상황’에서 언제나 멈출 수 있다. 이 비상상황(예외상태)의 가능성이 두 세계가 언제나 ‘para-’할 수밖에 없음을 입증하는 것 같다. 하지만 바로 이 가능성을 현실의 일부로 인정할 때야 말로, ‘para-’ 세계들 사이의 균열이 시작되는 지점일지도 모른다.
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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
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
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
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
aliwen
The Sapphic Latex of Itō Tari
Paper No. 22 – June 2025
ITŌ Tari (1951-2021) was a Japanese performance artist, known for contributing to different feminist projects with the intention of connecting and documenting the works and lives of women artists throughout Southeast and East Asia. Being one of the first openly lesbian artists in Japan, her own identity was often an integral part of her performances, which tended to utilize everyday objects and materials in unconventional ways that altered the artist’s own body. The following essay can be understood as a material micro history, following Itō’s formation as a physical artist, her unraveling of the concept of “epidermis” through her performances in the late 80s and early 90s, and her usage of Regitex S-500 latex rubber as a conduit for bodily transformation.
PDF free download
김원영
엘리베이터가 멈춘 건물을 빠져나가는 영장류의 손
Paper No. 21 – 2025년 4월
도심 지상과 지하철역을 잇는 엘리베이터는 그것이 아니라면 연결될 수 없었을 두 세계(para-words)의 교차점이다. 좁은 엘리베이터 공간 안에서 노인과 장애인이, 유아차에 탄 아이가, 여행가방을 든 외국인 관광객이 만난다. 이들은 서로에게 호기심 을 품고, 경쟁하고, 대화를 나눈다. 그러나 엘리베이터는 ‘비상상황’에서 언제나 멈출 수 있다. 이 비상상황(예외상태)의 가능성이 두 세계가 언제나 ‘para-’할 수밖에 없음을 입증하는 것 같다. 하지만 바로 이 가능성을 현실의 일부로 인정할 때야 말로, ‘para-’ 세계들 사이의 균열이 시작되는 지점일지도 모른다.
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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
스테이시 부 셰이
깊은 망각의 사람들
Paper No. 18 – 2025년 1월
기억과 망각의 정치학은 불안정하기 이를 데 없다. 선형적 합리성이 강조되고,정상성의 기준이 능력주의적 관점에서 형성되며, 돌봄 노동이 고통의 영역으로 머무는 가운데, 우리는 치매를 앓는 이들에게 존엄과 배려를 제공하기 위해 분투하고 있다. 이 글은 《Solution 305: 살아가며 죽어가기》(스턴버그 프레스, 2025)에서 발췌되었다. 스테이시 부 시어는 ‘깊이 기억하는 이들’이 우리의 불완전한 기억과 유연한 정체성을 돌보는 윤리를 바탕으로 한 문화적 현실 개념을 함께 창조하고 그 안에 몰입할 수 있다고 제안한다.
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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.
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잉고 니어만
단자적(單子的) 시대로의 진입
Paper No. 10 – 2024년 3월
지금의 세계는 민주주의와 독재, 정치적 각성과 포퓰리즘적 정체성 정치,부유층과 빈곤층, 지속적인 환경 착취, 기후 변화와 같은 심각한 문제 등을 둘러싼 갈등이 심화되는 양상을 보인다. 잉고 니어만은 자신의 신간 『Monadic Age』(Sternberg Press, 2024)에서 발췌한 이 글에서 자동화와 인공지능의 급속한 발전에 따라 다양한 위기가 자유주의 시대를 뒤엎고 모든 사회적 변수를 재창조하는 새로운 자기충족의 패러다임, 즉 모나디즘을 통해 정점에 이를 것이라고 주장한다.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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