Stillpoint Magazine issue 10: JUDGE launching April 13. The latest issue features essay, poetry, and contemporary digital artwork.
Stillpoint Magazine is thrilled to announce the launch of our tenth issue. In JUDGE contributors explore the structures that dominate our lives—or those that offer alternatives to them—including those that extend globally in the wake of colonialism and capitalist empire: the church, the school, the prison. Written contributions include essays on the painful entanglement of ethical law and desire; on the role of critical theory in a time of war; on the notion of prison abolition, considered from within a US prison; and more. These texts are placed in juxtaposition and dialogue with visual artworks by artists Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ibiye Camp, Iman Tajik, Sarah Khan, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, and Ben Dawson. The artworks consider the complexities of identity in neocolonial societies; the use of borders as judges of (il)legality; the potentials in queering digital, networked bodies; and Indigenous-Futurist Monster Slayers. The issue also contains a fashion editorial shot in Accra, Ghana, featuring unique looks from emerging designers, and evoking the judgement integrated both in the geopolitical, as well as in the world of sport. Together, the works collected in JUDGE explore systems of power and control, as well as the subjectivities who dominate or are dominated by them—especially those who resist and exist outside of them.
Launched in June of 2019, Stillpoint Magazine is a nonprofit, international magazine of contemporary art, literature, psychoanalysis, and theory. Stillpoint Magazine inhabits digital spaces to build public knowledge that’s rooted in community psychoanalysis and in collective, multiple, inclusive, radical, and hidden truths. We bring curated interdisciplinary scholarship, contemporary literature, and visual artwork to the public domain through our three open-source, concept based issues per year, and through our two Exclusive Supporters Issues for subscribers. During a period of global precarity, we believe in the urgent, essential role of art, literature, and critical thinking and analysis, outside of historically-exclusionary institutions like universities, museums, and psychoanalytic institutes. In all we do at Stillpoint Magazine, we strive to continue becoming: anti-racist, feminist, queer, ecologically attentive, anti-colonial, and equitable.
