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We try to survive in an era in which the possibility of alternative futures has been practically eradicated. These days, in which the memory of destruction seems almost inevitable, we yearn for and rehearse new ways to find ourselves by seeking out spaces for individual and collective enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

We urgently need common configurations of political, social, and cultural enthusiasm. We need to bring forth new forms of community, coexistence, and articulation that overcome the old structures that no longer support life.<\/p>\n

In a world that demands accountability for every pause, act of tenderness, or repose, we ask ourselves:<\/p>\n

What does it mean today to sustain joy without it being an excuse for indifference?
\nWhat happens if, in the current political climate, we bet on hope?
\nWhat if we insist on affection and the right to imagine without the guilt of the impossible?<\/p>\n

In TheIllness of Our Time<\/em><\/a>, Panamanian philosopher and poet Victoria Alegr\u00eda<\/strong> explores how freedom has been absorbed by marketplace logic, reduced to brand choice, content creation, or the myth of \u201cmaking a living from what you love.\u201d In her text, she argues how disobedience could be the first true gesture of freedom and wonders how to reclaim time, boredom, and silence, and what happens when we stop producing and begin to ask ourselves more complex questions.<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we ask the complicated and uncomfortable questions? Why don\u2019t we face each other and practice dialogue and listening as our only and last resort?<\/p>\n

In \ud83c\udf00 A conversaction with Valentina Desideri<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>about the Utopian Present, we discuss how artistic practices might resist the dominant grammar of linear time, control, and inevitability. We are committed to utopia as a practice that occurs in the present, and to magic, intuition, and generosity as tools to move from self-help to collective ethics, from control to resonance, from individual creation to collective imagination.<\/p>\n

How can we dismantle the myth of the ego and embrace a more abundant, detached premise?<\/p>\n

In Over and Out: Dembow, Disobedience and Afro-Descendant Future Technologies<\/em><\/a>, Dominican curator Luis Graham Castillo<\/strong> argues that dembow is more than just music, it is also a micropolitics, a vibratory archive of survival and invention. From broken loud speakers on street corners, dembow evokes Black Caribbean knowledge systems rooted in joy, trance, noise, contradiction, and community. Dembow doesn\u2019t ask to be understood, it demands to be danced.<\/p>\n

What if the future doesn\u2019t need any translation, only rhythm?<\/p>\n

For her part, Guatemalan poet Maya K’iche’ Kaqchikel Rosa Ch\u00e1vez<\/strong> speaks to us from a place of \u201cwe,\u201d not to universalize the experience but to recover a sense of coexistence. In Urgent Times, Slow Rhythms as Experiments to Ritualize Hope,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0she focuses on sacred pauses as acts of collective resistance that help move us and help us find the imagination and persistence that bodies of water give us for the construction of free presents and futures. Slow rhythms as experiments to ritualize hope.<\/p>\n

How do we respond to beings that are neither material nor human?<\/p>\n

This series of texts is an exploration and an invitation to consider other ways of doing, feeling, and being. It connects diverse narratives, including stories against inertia, against exhaustion, against the seductive lie that there is no alternative. Without claiming definitive answers, they insist on questions, on the contours of what has not yet taken shape. They invite us to immerse ourselves in the pride of the unattainable and to evoke possible technologies of hope, not as an escape but as strategies for inhabiting the present with greater fullness and lucidity, for perceiving and cultivating latent possibilities in the here and now.<\/p>\n

This is collective alchemy, harnessing the power of shared feeling, fostering new ecologies of thought, and utilizing languages \u200b\u200band methodologies that break the cycle of repetition, driven by a stubbornness against resignation and the desire to disobey what is possible by going beyond its limits.<\/p>\n

(Featured image: W\/T by Libertad Rojo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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