Unmoorings Word Count: 2,173 by Sokol Ferizi, Nicky Ni & Kymara Akinpelumi Reflections from past members of the Stillpoint team on its life—and loss. – With TIME IS JUST A MEMORY – VI artwork by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
Love with its numerous uses Word Count: 511 by Vanessa Sinclair Poetry on psychoanalysis and the language of love. – With TIME IS JUST A MEMORY – XI video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
https://vimeo.com/735782338 “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” – A Manifesto Word Count: 2,187 by Kara Kohn-Gardner & Carlos Padrón An experimental, co-authored declaration of the potential of dreams and the unconscious hold for collective transformation. – With FAINTING SPELLS a video by SKY HOPINKA
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
The Last Word Word Count: 1,262 by henry 7. reneau jr. Poetry as an indictment of racism in the United States. – With a video by ANIKA ROACH
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/696915634 RETRACTING PLEXUS Word Count: 713 by Dimitra Ioannou Poetry revolting against the imposition of pervasive judgement under semiocapitalism, and gesturing to its ripe, hidden ruptures. – With PLEXUS ELASTIC a video by ANDREA GARCIA VASQUEZ
https://vimeo.com/690501925 IN-BETWEEN THE LAW AND TRANSGRESSION: DESIRE, ETHICS, AND SYMBOLIC DESTINY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS Word Count: 3,162 by Richard B. Keys A tour through experiments in psychoanalytic writing and a consideration of desire and ethics within and outside the analytic situation. – With INSIDE OUT a film by SARAH KHAN
Ring the Bell Word Count: 817 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon On emerging from solitude to feel again. – With TOUDI a video by BALLA MAL KASSÉ
HUMILITY Word Count: 1,202 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon On the duality and split between softness and sorrow. – With HYPERACUSIS (PART 1) a film by SOPHIE HOYLE
GOOD EYE TO THE BOUGHS Word Count: 1,005 by Lehua Taitano Poetry on the fine line between birth and death, joy and grief. – With REGENESIS: AN OPERA TENTACULAR (ACT 1) a video by RIEKO WHITFIELD
https://vimeo.com/656188035 THE TENDERNESS OF THE CUT Word Count: 1,954 by Vanessa Sinclair A psychoanalytic take on the omnipresence of dominance, submission, and inaccessibility in our most intimate relationships. – With SHEER-NAKED-AGGRESSION a video by SOPHIE HOYLE
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
https://vimeo.com/652021651 LETTERS FROM MY CHILDHOOD Word Count: 708 by Ojo Taiye Poetry on the delicacy of intimate violence, as seen by a son. – With an excerpt from AFTER MY DEATH / A MUTABLE DECISION a performance by INDIRA ALLEGRA
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
Trust Word Count: 560 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon Cartesian doubt in the age of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the non fungible token. – With CURSIVE BINARY: “PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY” artwork by SASHA STILES
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
https://vimeo.com/651685692 BLADE RUNNER (1982) Word Count: 1,767 by Franny Choi A lyrical takedown of anti-Asian racism and misogyny. – With an excerpt from MYCEAQUA VITAE a film by JOSÈFA NTJAM
Few Understand Word Count: 3,230 by Kalen Iwamoto Autofiction as a blockchain, from the blockchain. – With MOVEMENT PORTRAITS from THE BLACK MOVEMENT PROJECT by LAJUNÉ MCMILLIAN
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
Nepenthe Word Count: 684 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon Silence as a salve for grief, from our Editor. – With WTFRU? (PARTS 1 & 2) a video by AMANDA SUCKOW
Reckless Word Count: 791 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon Riding the waves of desire, with a statement from our Editor. – With SHRINE MAIDENS OF THE UNSEELIE COURT a video game by TABITHA NIKOLAI
https://vimeo.com/562723716 THE DESICCATION OF CORAL Word Count: 3,290 by Jamieson Webster A tour through a dream, a rumination on the loss inherent to desire. – With an excerpt from BEYOND THE NATION STATE I WANT TO DREAM a video by DORINE VAN MEEL
https://vimeo.com/527721998 EVAPORATE Word Count: 1,745 by Youmna Chlala Fiction of the Pacific coast, family, and the beautifully tragic solitude of life. – With FLIGHT MODE a video by DAIVA TUBUTYTĖ
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
MOTHER Word Count: 1,236 by Monica Sanborn The story of a daughter who witnesses her mother’s loss of body and takes refuge in declarations of nothingness. – With KASPALE’S PLAYGROUND a film by SYOWIA KYAMBI
COSMIC GULF OF TONKIN Word Count: 263 by Tao Lin Poetry on the sinuous nature of reality, and the universe. – With a video by RICK SILVA
Exit Strategy Word Count: 1,195 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon What to do from the storm of the daze? – With MOLOTOV COCKTAIL HOUR a video by DAVID PETERKA
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
SHOWTIME [the poem also known as SHOWSTOPPER] Word Count: 429 by Koleka Putuma Poetry that defies the gaze of white dominance. – With JOSEPHINE AND THE LEOPARD a video by JADE MONTSERRAT & WEBB-ELLIS
https://vimeo.com/448898042 ANTHROPOCENE CROSSING Word Count: 2,194 by Xin Wang Finding solace in the virtual forests of the video game ‘Animal Crossing.’ – With GALAXY a video by DAGMAR SCHÜRRER
ELEMENTAL CATASTROPHE: ECOPSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE VIRAL UNCANNY OF COVID-19 Word Count: 5,432 by Joseph Dodds Coronavirus embodies the uncanny ecology that threatens our destruction—but also offers a pause in the headlong rush of our ecocidal civilization, opening possibilities of renewal. – With POOL artworks by SOLVEIG SETTEMSDAL
AI AND THE MISSING BODY Word Count: 4,505 by Isabel Millar A Lacanian exploration of Artificial Intelligence, and the body. – With THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF BRASILIA a video by GUERREIRO DO DIVINO AMOR
CAN IGNORING THE UNCONSCIOUS MAKE US FREE? SARTRE, EXISTENTIALISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS WITHOUT UNCONSCIOUS Word Count: 2,212 by Mathilde Ramadier What good is Existential Psychoanalysis today? – With UNION (PART II: AFFECTIVE LABOUR) an artwork by HANCOCK & KELLY
https://vimeo.com/369270414 THE SPACEMAN DISSOLVES Word Count: 7,019 by Trevor Shikaze In this short story, a damaged planet earth sends a spaceman to find a new home for humanity… with gruesome results. – With PREMIUM CONNECT a video by TABITA REZAIRE
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
NOTHING FOR NOBODY Word Count: 4,490 by Maggie Ryan Sandford Science isn’t funny, but it should be. – With AMATEUR BOTANIST a video by KOTRYNA ULA KILIULYTE
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
FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT Word Count: 3,122 by Lora Matz One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing. – With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER artwork by KATE HOLFORD
WADING ON THE SHORES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: EXPLORING THE ROLES OF FANTASY AND IMAGINATION IN THERAPY Word Count: 3,182 by Elizabeth Carter Psychologically, fantasy can be a tool, a crutch, or a means of transformation. – With #10 – INVITATION TO LOVE: FRAGMENTED VIDEO DIARY a video by JORGOS LOUKAKOS
ANTHROPUSSY Word Count: 1,769 by Caren Beilin Experimental fiction mining the depths of gender, sexuality, and self in the Anthropocene. – With #2 – INVITATION TO LOVE: FRAGMENTED VIDEO DIARY a video by JORGOS LOUKAKOS
