An argument for inhabiting the space between hostility and hospitality, and for dancing, in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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With FUTURE ANCESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES: NEW MYTH
a film by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
Category Archives: Social Critique
Transcend Incarceration
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An inmate’s reflections and analysis on incarceration and the potentials and limitations for prison abolition.
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With ARBITRARY NAMES CAN’T DEFINE SUCH TASTE
a video by BEN DAWSON
Nonfiction on the eerie appearance of decapitated pigs heads through lockdown, the Minneapolis uprising.
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With THE DREAMERS
artwork by IMAN TAJIK
A call for a radicalization of flirtation.
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With THE STROKER (PT II)
a video by PILVI TAKALA
An argument for deconstructed gender norms in domestic and sexual violence advocacy.
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With THE STROKER (PT I)
a video by PILVI TAKALA
Salvage in the Phillippines
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Tracing the history of salvage killings in the Phillippines.
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With photography by
NANA KWADWO AGYEI ADDO
A critical theoretical look at semiocapitalism’s spread, and implications for society.
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With $$$BIT$$$
a video by MARINA HEINTZE
Ethereality at the Edge of Social Media
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An analysis of the phantasmagoric qualities of our relationship with social media.
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With photomontage by
JOSÈFA NTJAM
A deep-dive into the ontological and aesthetic implications of crypto.
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With DEAR ONE, DEAR DEAD
an artwork by LÉA PORRÉ
An analysis of Grace Jones subversion of white patriarchy’s oppressive desire.
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With KINSHIP MASKS
photographs by DAYNA DANGER
Whose Climate? Post-Apocalyptic Reflections on Climate Justice
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Video recording of Mihir Sharma’s presentation at Stillpoint Magazine’s event “Racism and Ecology”, December 2019.
Unpacking Climate Change in the Middle East
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Video recording of Dr. Edna Bonhomme’s presentation at Stillpoint Magazine’s event “Racism and Ecology”, December 2019.
TOTEMIZING THE TABOO, OR SEIZING THE FORTRESS OF WHITENESS
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Building community, and the therapeutic relationship, around an exaltation of the radically Other.
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With (BE)LONGING
an artwork by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
Brazilian Military Police and the Anatomy of a Necrostate
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The dystopia is now.
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With KASPALE’S ARCHIVE INTRUSION
an artwork by SYOWIA KYAMBI
Identity and Racism: A Self-Reflective Conversation Between a Black and a White German on Racism in Germany
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A dialogue on the veiled persistence of racism in Germany, and in Europe as a whole.
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With DECOLONISE THIS PLACE
photographs by MICHAEL STEFFEN
Provocations #2: Matters of Movement
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Stillpoint Magazine contributors reflect on “staying the course.”
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With photography by SUMMER XU
Make Poland Russia Again? Frustrated In-Betweenness or: the Second World in the Neoliberal Era
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The American model should not be exported to all national contexts. Poland—and its rhetoric against LGBTQIA communities—is a case in point.
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With VIRTUALIZED
a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
A foundational work presenting the relevance of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory within a praxis global in scale.
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With NEXT TO YOU (IN-MALIBU.MX)
a video by RODRIGO NAVA RAMIREZ
“To Be or Not To Be”: Blackness and Signification
Word Count: 2,737
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A radical explosion of the reality of race and racism through a transformative use of language.
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With BEYOND THE HORIZON & ACID RAIN
artworks by DAVID ALABO
Beyond Shadow Boxing: Reflections on the Matrix of Race in the Post-Floyd Era of Racial Protest
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A critical analysis of the ways that a Black-led uprising can be co-opted by white-dominated, global neoliberalism.
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With artworks by CRICE
Unveiling the Collective in Isolation: Thinking the Apocalypse with D. H. Lawrence
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An evocation of the potentials for a collective response to apocalyptic murmurs that defies the biblical division between the saved, and the damned.
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With ESCAPE
photography by TATIANA BONDAREVA
World War 3.0
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A foray into the warfare of the future we’re in, from Stillpoint Magazine’s Publisher.
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With OBSOLESCENT IMMORTALITY
photographs by CLARA LANG-EZEKIEL
Provocations #1: Climate Crash & Digital Overgrowth
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Responses to an urgent question of our time by Stillpoint Magazine writers.
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With SIREN
photographs by KATE HOLFORD
On the links between climate change, racism, and capitalism.
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With OF THE EARTH
a video by OLIVIA JONES
Unsettling the Roots of the Climate Crisis in the Middle East
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A journey through the tangled roots of Islamophobia, climate change, colonialism, and disease.
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With SCI-COPIA
an artwork by SADIE WEIS
Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women.
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With WATER
a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame.
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With RAY OF HOPE
a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
Detached Complicity and Willful Disbelief: Challenging Attitudes on Race and Racism in Europe
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On why it’s time to stop believing white people came from Europe, and that Europe is a continent at all.
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With artwork by HANNA LEE JOSHI
On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional
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On the lies that white privilege tells.
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With CONQUERORS & MONSTER
photographs by PAMELA COHN
A call to transform the impacts on mental health for people of color in the eye of neoliberalism’s storm.
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With PACIFIC
artwork by DEBORA CHEYENNE CRUCHON