PRESENT
Our third and final issue is present.
We are looking for creative and critical work that responds to ‘now’ in any form. Attention. Spectacle. Politics. Consumption. Technology. Anxiety. Expression. Intimacy. Internet. Climate. Culture. Habit. Work. Desire. Identity. The everyday. Today.
What does it feel like to be alive now?
What are we always looking at? What are you being told matters? What are you consuming? What feels normal that would once have seemed strange? What feels strange that has somehow become normal? What are you tired of? What are you obsessed with? What are today’s machines for? What habits, objects, images, technologies, clothes, sounds, or rituals define this moment? Where does private life end and public life begin? What does intimacy look like now? What does attention cost? What feels unmistakably of this moment?
Kara Walker, The Hero with 1000 Diagnosable Disorders, 2024, Watercolour and ink on paper, cut and pasted on paper.
No publication history is required. No qualification is required. If anything here generates an idea, follow it and send it in.
We are looking for poetry, short fiction, essays, visual art, music writing, fashion, manifestos, experimental work, diary entries, or fragments of thought.
Show us what surrounds you, distracts you, consumes you, excites you, or refuses to leave your attention.
Show us what now feels like.
Send Submissions to: boxsubmissions@gmail.com
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