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Note from the Editors |
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Nico Jenkins, Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears
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This second issue of continent. was created, for you, dear reader. The result of months of back-breaking thinking, emailing, looking, clicking, watching, writing and reading, our summer issue is here. The issue features works by some of the finest creative and philosophical minds we've been in contact with—and so are proud to showcase their work here.
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Investigative Poetics: In (night)-Light of Akilah Oliver |
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Feliz Molina
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Feliz Molina remembers our colleague and poet Akilah Oliver, who died suddenly this spring. Oliver's work describes her own struggle with memory and with mourning; she writes, in In Aporia, "It is yesterday now. I have not had a chance to dance in this century."
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Please Mind the Gap: How To Podcast Your Brain |
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Karen Spaceinvaders
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These audio recordings from a live brain are the most granular measurement possible today: single brain cells. At this most minute level, we are reminded that we've yet to sound the depths of the mind.
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Meillassoux's Virtual Future |
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Graham Harman
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Originally presented as a talk in Amsterdam in March of this year, Graham Harman here describes two works by Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude, and L'inexistence divine (as yet untranslated into English, but where Meillassoux imagines a God not yet arrived) and attempts to plot a way forward for Meillassoux's specific thinking of speculative materialism. Graham Harman's new book, Quentin Meillassoux; Philosophy In The Making is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in August of this year.
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DCP Series |
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Phil Stearns
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Phil Stearns deconstructs—bends, cuts, reloops—digital photography, creating an archealogical significant (and signifier) that is both beautiful and haunting.
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Copernican Metaphysics |
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Paul Ennis
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Paul Ennis describes the "Copernican turn" in speculative realism, and argues for a less than "jagged" path from Kant to contemporary thought, in light of recent work by Quentin Meillassoux and others.
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The Afterlives of Queer Theory |
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Michael O'Rourke
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In this state-of-the-field report we move through the (recurring) "death of queer theory" and see again the value of a radically provisional approach to being-with. O'Rourke presents a compelling account of the openness of short-lived and impersonal intimacies. These, necessarily, partial visits illuminate for us the urgency of appreciating what time we have together. We come to ask if queer theory is a theory of everything?
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Gonzo Strategies of Deceit: An Interview with Joaquin Segura |
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Brett W. Schultz
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Joaquin Segura's art bruskly informs its viewer that the distances between us can only be overcome by contact. Sometimes it comes in the form of a punch in the face. Schultz's interview with the Guadalajara-based artist provides an in-depth perspective on Segura's art practices and his humor.
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Orbital Contour: Videos by Craig Dongoski |
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Paul Boshears
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The Paiva River in Portugal serves as the launching point from which an investigation into repetition and the nature of sound in Dongoski's video. In the accompanying interview Boshears discusses with the artist the nature of time and the possibility translation.
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The Official Catalog of Potential Literature Selections |
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Ben Segal
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Ben Segal curates an official compendium of blurbs for books that have yet to come, collected from writers who have come already, including Shelley Jackson and Lance Olsen.
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Remembering Robert Seydel |
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Lauren Haaftern-Schick, Sura Levine
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We mourn the loss of the author Robert Seydel, a loss all the more bitter as it so closely precedes the publication of his magnum opus, Book of Ruth. In addition to selected pages from his magnificent book we share remembrances from his colleague Sura Levine and his student Laren van Haaften-Schick.
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The Poetry of Nachoem M. Wijnberg |
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Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
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Vincent W.J van Gerven Oei introduces the poetry of Nachoem M. Wijnberg. Wijnberg's work, rarely accesible in the english language, cleaves the divide between the corporate world and the world of poetics.
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Covering Giorgio Agamben's Nudities |
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Gregory Kirk Murray
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A creative review of Agamben's new book of essays separated into "clothing," which contains commentary on the essays, and "the body," which contains quotes from the essays themselves. it pressures the idea of the "book review" and opens spaces for further critical inquiry.
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