Affective Currents of the Present Tense
by Emilie Glazer
Every Wednesday during my first winter in Jerusalem, I met with Umm Atef, Umm Abed, and Umm Ali to visit the places of water in the village of Silwan, [...]
Affective Currents of the Present Tense
A Cunning Present
by Stefan Tarnowski
“Revolutions are consummately about time” (Scott 2014, 15); and, as Hannah Arendt argued—they are “the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of a [...]
Gambling on the Present
by Anthony Pickles
When I wrote this sentence, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, had just had his fingerprints taken. The pundits on the news channels are both salivating [...]
Against Mono-Presentism
by Charis Boutieri
How can revolution have a consequential presence without being recast as the prequel to—or a break from—the liberal democratic present? In post-revolutionary Tunisia, the democratic present became a key [...]
The Present as Legibility
by Kelly Fagan Robinson
Each student in the cohort of 15 students I met at Phoenix High1 in central London navigated five different first or preferred languages during the first workshop and throughout [...]
A Revolutionary Present
by Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung
A banner drop in downtown Yangon, Myanmar following the coup of February 2021. Photo via Chulletin. On February 19, 2021, eighteen days after Myanmar’s military seized power [...]
The Present as Patchwork
by Chika Watanabe
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake struck Japan. Unforeseen high tsunami waves engulfed entire towns along the Northeastern coastline, black liquid washing away houses, cars, and bodies in a [...]
Introduction: Back/s to the Present
Edited by Timothy P. A. Cooper, Michael Edwards, and Nikita Simpson
In 1922, the year Bronislaw Malinowski’s published Argonauts of the Western Pacific, a film titled The Fundamentals of the Einsteinian Relativity Theory premiered at the Frankfurt Fair. Probably the [...]
Complaining about Heat in Nagaland
by Roderick Wijunamai
Early last year, I was texting with an old friend, Alika, who lives in Chümoukedima, Nagaland, located in the northeastern region of India. We were talking about my summer [...]
Between Fantasy and the Difficulty of Reality in Israeli Psychiatry
Talia Katz
This essay explores the texture of early Israeli clinical data on the Holocaust, generated between 1948 and the 1960s, to pose two questions. First, how does the clinician’s own [...]
