295 x 430mm - folded in half, 28 pages, Colour printing, Unbound, 2024

The empiric and market imaginary; the myth of meritocracy; of humanitarian professionals and altruistic technocrats; of self-made men and hard-working patriots from the heartland—these are themes, characters, and settings that engage the human desire for story, but have little to do with the observable world.

There are few resources to battle an enemy that employs our innate desire for fantasy and meaning-making in order to pacify, stupefy, and control. Giving over one’s imagination is a guarantee of defeat. It is to give up the last ground on which we might truly stand.

As every good soldier or mystic knows, it’s hearts and minds that count; bodies are always expendable.

In these pages we bring you no solutions but rather cracks in the armor, holes in the fortress walls, spaces to think of something new. What we do with these spaces is up to us. In this issue we have dispatches from people’s movements in the West Bank, Argentina, and the U.S., Philip Shelley reminds us what it is to transgress, Aleksandra Kaminska interviews Eileen Myles, Dread Scott and David Baillie expound on the anti-fascist (and fascist) roots of Punk, Elly Bangs brings us a picture of the future, and Maria Xilouri shows us how to dream and drift; plus reviews by Heather Bowlan, Jules Bentley, and Agnes Borinsky, and art by Tabitha Arnold, Jess Vieira, Jesse L. Freeman, John Ahearn, Scott Treleaven, Joy Drury Cox, and Sylvia Plachy.

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