KAJET JOURNAL ISSUE 05

ON EASTERNFUTURISM: IMAGINING MULTIPLE FUTURES

On Easternfuturism

Over the last three decades of increased precarity and insecurity, the act of remodelling the future has disappeared in the turbulent transformations that took over Eastern Europe. The very notion of imagining a better future was relegated into a worn-out ideal, widely regarded as a by-product of privilege, or removed entirely from the collective imagination. Who has time to think about the future in the age of semiocapitalism, when ideology has pervasively leaked into all forms of existence? Juxtaposed between utopia and absurdity, even the possibility of fantasising about what is to come has been discarded and nullified. The main intention of the fifth issue of Kajet Journal is to tentatively sketch a re-conceptualisation of Eastern Europe’s future: to formulate a novel prototype of Easternfuturism, one that is by no means exhaustive but should be read as an invitation for new cultural, artistic, and activist entities to develop their own understandings of the concept.

Uroš Pajović, Pavlo Borshchenko, Anna Tokareva, Boglárka Börcsök, Katalin Erdődi, Arseny Zhilyaev, Andreas Bolm, Cosmin Nicolae, Márk Fridvalszki, Maria Plichta, Michael Dietrich, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Natalia Domagala, Alicja Melzacka, Ingel Vaikla, Luminița Toma, Sayam Ghosh, Andrei Becheru, Holly Bushman, Martina Vacheva, Simona Žemaitytė, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt & Sasha Shestakova), Marina Oprea, Maximilian Lehner, Makar Tereshin, Ștefan Ambrosie Ionescu, Elena Stanciu, Sabin Staicu, Julien Britnic, Andrei Nicolescu, Jack McClelland, Petre Mogoș, Laura Naum, Sonia Voss, Cristina Stoenescu, Natasha Klimenko, Daryl Mersom, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, s.a.b.a

Edited by Petre Mogoș & Laura Naum
Design by Regular Practice
Cover: Sumy: Sorrowfuturism, by Pavlo Borshchenko
Publisher: Dispozitiv Books
Language: English
Pages: 298 pages
Size: 16,5 x 23 x (2) cm
ISSN: 2559 – 8015

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