Undoing Time
Time was once described by Arthur Eddington as an “arrow” flying from past to present: morning to night, young to old, less to more. Eddington’s metaphor suggests that time is a movement forwards and things subject to it undergo a […]
Time was once described by Arthur Eddington as an “arrow” flying from past to present: morning to night, young to old, less to more. Eddington’s metaphor suggests that time is a movement forwards and things subject to it undergo a […]
The dial-up modem’s screech pierced through our Doha home as I waited impatiently to sign into MSN Messenger. It was 2005, and I was deliberating over my MSN status—an inside joke, a cryptic song lyric, or just my mood, perfectly […]
—What Foraging Teaches Me About Care, Kinship, and Co-becoming 1. In 2023, when the leaves started to turn gold in New York City, I noticed a pair of Chinese grandmothers walking with bamboo baskets, gathering wild plants from the sidewalks […]
Click through to interact with this media piece in a new tab. Best experienced on a desktop computer. At the end of the earth, I find {} is a triptych poem—a letter and reflection on my family, ancestral home, grandparents, […]
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The imminent destruction brought about by the climate catastrophe has brought something of an epistemological void along with it. The axioms that have taken us to this point are clearly flawed and unreliable…seeing as they have taken us to this […]
“Art is a circulation of energetic ideas. What makes them appear new is that they’re combining differently each time they come back.”— Rick Rubin There is a long tradition of artists adapting older works for a new audience or context. […]
Filmmaker and real-time artist Kevin Peter He explores metaphors of grotesque yet beautiful transformation in a new visual translation of experimental cellist MIZU’s single “prphtbrd”, from her sophomore album Forest Scenes. The music video is an “avant-garde exploration of harshness […]
The Philippines’ Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has for years been outspoken about the weaponization of social media by authoritarians and tech companies to influence politics and profit. She, of course, speaks from experience. After all, it was her […]