TOURISM & FORCED DISPLACMENT

Beyond: That’s where the world is now. At this moment in time, when cultural differences are caught between the interface of our own projections and the caducity of exponential growth, desire and extinction, meaning and performance, transgression and abstraction, reality shows and the virality of war images, to go beyond is today’s kind of tourism. And that is an act of epistemic violence. [...]
The very presence of forcibly displaced individuals and immigrants in Europe today fuels the representative narrative of the EU itself. [...]
Displacement, like unemployment, is a central element of capitalist exploitation, and maybe the most characteristic feature of the economic system of our day. Four years ago, the force of this collective disorientation took the founders of this paper to consider language as the vehicle for comradery in spite of dissonance and social crises that soak the arts and their function in global society that strides from distress to ecstasy, biennials to marches, poetics to politics, peripheries to centers of power and the persistence of tradition to abolitionist wonders. We thank you, dear readers, for being bodies of restless and revisionary energy, sweating, swearing, contradicting the expanded field that we share now of mediatic eccentrism and lost subjectivities. To be continued.

Source: AWC

With contributions from: Rahel Aima, Volodymyra Aminova, Jean Carlos Azuo, Francesca Bria and Jaya Klara Brekke, UBI Circles, George Edwards, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, February24, Elise Girardot, The New Institut, Alexander Klose, Alina Kolar, Ira Konyukhova, Matylda Krzykowski, Daniela Labra, LIOS labs, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Filippe Lippe, Omri Livne, Pablo Santacan Lopez, Zoë Claire Miller, Jazz Money, Ido Nahari, Miwa Negoro, Theo Prodromidis, Pia Marie Remmers, Collective Rewilding, Nuno de Brito Rocha, Agnieszka Roguski, Marta Torres Ruiz, Federico Sancez, SexyKapitalismus, Arash Shahali, Elena Vogman and Joshua Simon, Kuba Szreder, Abhijan Toto, Florian Voss, Shen Xin