Provocations #4: Labors of Love Word Count: 1,121 by Richard B. Keys A response to a proposition posed by Luce DeLire in Issue 011: SLEEP on the indeterminate sublime as a model for love.
Lessons in Love II: The Erotics of Toxicity Word Count: 6,091 by Luce deLire An analysis of the way capitalism forces toxicity in love, and sells it to us as romance. – With JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD a video by PAOLA ESTRELLA
perchance to dream Word Count: 1,846 by Aneta Stojnić An argument for reclaiming sleep and defending dreams, with the help of psychoanalysis. – With BLOODSOUND artwork by ZINZI MINOTT
https://vimeo.com/694473387 WHY DANCE IN THE FACE OF WAR? Word Count: 4,982 by Luce deLire An argument for inhabiting the space between hostility and hospitality, and for dancing, in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine. – With FUTURE ANCESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES: NEW MYTH a film by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
Transcend Incarceration Word Count: 3,900 by Will Anderson An inmate’s reflections and analysis on incarceration and the potentials and limitations for prison abolition. – With ARBITRARY NAMES CAN’T DEFINE SUCH TASTE a video by BEN DAWSON
https://vimeo.com/698808607 COMING OUT AHEAD Word Count: 2,743 by Sarah Brumble Nonfiction on the eerie appearance of decapitated pigs heads through lockdown, the Minneapolis uprising. – With THE DREAMERS artwork by IMAN TAJIK
LESSONS IN LOVE I: ON REVOLUTIONARY FLIRTING Word Count: 4,095 by Luce deLire A call for a radicalization of flirtation. – With THE STROKER (PT II) a video by PILVI TAKALA
POWER AND GENDER IN SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVOCACY Word Count: 2,596 by Jen Asturias An argument for deconstructed gender norms in domestic and sexual violence advocacy. – With THE STROKER (PT I) a video by PILVI TAKALA
Salvage in the Phillippines Word Count: 1,759 by Joaquin Rosales Tracing the history of salvage killings in the Phillippines. – With photography by NANA KWADWO AGYEI ADDO
WHAT IF MONEY MISFIRES? Word Count: 2,935 by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi A critical theoretical look at semiocapitalism’s spread, and implications for society. – With $$$BIT$$$ a video by MARINA HEINTZE
Ethereality at the Edge of Social Media Word Count: 1,959 by L. Ayu Saraswati An analysis of the phantasmagoric qualities of our relationship with social media. – With photomontage by JOSÈFA NTJAM
https://vimeo.com/582888685 ETHEREAL THRESHOLDS AND SURPLUS AESTHETICS Word Count: 4,052 by JC Holburn A deep-dive into the ontological and aesthetic implications of crypto. – With DEAR ONE, DEAR DEAD an artwork by LÉA PORRÉ
“LIVING MY LIFE”: GRACE JONES PERFORMING THE UNDECIDABILITY OF FEAR AND DESIRE Word Count: 2,293 by Sequoia Barnes An analysis of Grace Jones subversion of white patriarchy’s oppressive desire. – With KINSHIP MASKS photographs by DAYNA DANGER
Whose Climate? Post-Apocalyptic Reflections on Climate Justice Word Count: 290 by Mihir Sharma Video recording of Mihir Sharma’s presentation at Stillpoint Magazine’s event “Racism and Ecology”, December 2019.
Unpacking Climate Change in the Middle East Word Count: 331 by Dr Edna Bonhomme 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 Word Count: 4,037 by Carlos Padrón Building community, and the therapeutic relationship, around an exaltation of the radically Other. – With (BE)LONGING an artwork by CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER
Brazilian Military Police and the Anatomy of a Necrostate Word Count: 3,600 by Breno Luna The dystopia is now. – 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 Word Count: 2,490 by Josephine Apraku & Jule Bönkost A dialogue on the veiled persistence of racism in Germany, and in Europe as a whole. – With DECOLONISE THIS PLACE photographs by MICHAEL STEFFEN
Provocations #2: Matters of Movement Word Count: 1,500 by Maggie Ryan Sandford & Jermaine Singleton Stillpoint Magazine contributors reflect on “staying the course.” – With photography by SUMMER XU
Make Poland Russia Again? Frustrated In-Betweenness or: the Second World War in the Neoliberal Era Word Count: 4,215 by Mateusz Chmurski The American model should not be exported to all national contexts. Poland—and its rhetoric against LGBTQIA communities—is a case in point. – With VIRTUALIZED a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
THE IMPORTANCE OF FREUDO-LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS TO LIBERATION PRAXIS Word Count: 2,857 by Robert K. Beshara A foundational work presenting the relevance of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory within a praxis global in scale. – With NEXT TO YOU (IN-MALIBU.MX) a video by RODRIGO NAVA RAMÍREZ
“To Be or Not To Be”: Blackness and Signification Word Count: 2,742 by S. Alfonso Williams A radical explosion of the reality of race and racism through a transformative use of language. – 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 Word Count: 3,717 by Professor Jermaine Singleton A critical analysis of the ways that a Black-led uprising can be co-opted by white-dominated, global neoliberalism. – With artworks by CRICE
Unveiling the Collective in Isolation: Thinking the Apocalypse with D. H. Lawrence Word Count: 3,989 by Matt Colquhoun An evocation of the potentials for a collective response to apocalyptic murmurs that defies the biblical division between the saved, and the damned. – With ESCAPE photography by TATIANA BONDAREVA
World War 3.0 Word Count: 2,720 by Dr Stephen Setterberg A foray into the warfare of the future we’re in, from Stillpoint Magazine’s Publisher. – With OBSOLESCENT IMMORTALITY photographs by CLARA LANG-EZEKIEL
Provocations #1: Climate Crash & Digital Overgrowth Word Count: 1,064 by Elizabeth Carter, Joe von Hutch & Trevor Shikaze Responses to an urgent question of our time by Stillpoint Magazine writers. – With SIREN photographs by KATE HOLFORD
https://vimeo.com/374444169 AN OPEN LETTER ON THE UNTHOUGHT CONTRADICTIONS OF DOING CLIMATE ACTIVISM Word Count: 4,936 by Mihir Sharma On the links between climate change, racism, and capitalism. – With OF THE EARTH a video by OLIVIA JONES
Unsettling the Roots of the Climate Crisis in the Middle East Word Count: 2,841 by Dr Edna Bonhomme A journey through the tangled roots of Islamophobia, climate change, colonialism, and disease. – With SCI-COPIA an artwork by SADIE WEIS
https://vimeo.com/356010544 WALKING IN THE SHADOWS Word Count: 2,358 by Marcie Rendon Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women. – With WATER a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
BIOPOLITICAL WARS IN THE ERA OF THE ALT-RIGHT Word Count: 3,208 by Dr A. Kiarina Kordela A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame. – With RAY OF HOPE a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
Detached Complicity and Willful Disbelief: Challenging Attitudes on Race and Racism in Europe Word Count: 2,070 by Joe von Hutch On why it’s time to stop believing white people came from Europe, and that Europe is a continent at all. – With artwork by HANNA LEE JOSHI
On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional Word Count: 3,193 by Elizabeth Tannen On the lies that white privilege tells. – With CONQUERORS & MONSTER photographs by PAMELA COHN
OUT OF THE HANDS OF OTHERS’ FANTASIES: MINORITY MENTAL HEALTH IN THE EYE OF NEOLIBERALISM’S STORM Word Count: 2,378 by Professor Jermaine Singleton A call to transform the impacts on mental health for people of color in the eye of neoliberalism’s storm. – With PACIFIC artwork by DEBORA CHEYENNE CRUCHON
