I haven’t posted anything here for about a month. In that month, our small community (which is how I like to think about you all) grew by 15%.
This pause, along with a Zoom conversation I recently had with Giorgos Terzakis — the artist who made covers for Limits, Tsar Monk and the Psychedelic Gulag, and How Lenin and Stalin Killed God, and with whom I had never spoken before — made me remember that, from the start, Psychopolitica was supposed to be something that I reinvent every issue.
There is a vision behind it, but I don’t know if it can ever be formulated in full.
I think of it as a practice (“the psychopolitical method”) as opposed to a product; a way of seeing things more than a thing to observe; a language rather than a message. Things and messages do emerge as part of the process, but they’re not exactly its point — like apples are not exactly the point of apple trees, at least from an apple tree’s perspective.
So now, keeping this reinvention angle in mind, I invite you to be…
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