It can be hard to be an active agent at the end of the world… Across this issue, writers and artists explore myriad pathways towards agency, including becoming cyborg, using objects to tell powerful stories, and exploring how abjection might not be so abject after all. Articles on Tala Madani and shit as a feminist material; LACMA's "Afro-Atlantic Histories," reparations, and the power of objects; and artists who utilize medieval imagery to address the powerlessness we feel in our contemporary world. Plus, a conversation with the LA-based artist rafa esparza about the cyborgian as a mode of resistance. Reviews of Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, "a time to tear and a time to mend," Maria Maea, "The New Bend," Chris Warr, and John Knight.
