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Current IssueWinter 2026

Issue 162

Tidal

This issue begins from the tidal as literal image and metaphor for ceaseless movement and its force. We think alongside the inseparability of ocean and land, inspired by Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite’s idea of tidalectics that moves away from easy binaries—the ones that continually justify colonial and capital expansion. From Turtle Island to the Caribbean archipelago, Palestine, Central America, and Bidong Island in Malaysia, artists wade through interconnected and overlapping struggles across multiple shores, times, and material inheritances.

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[Yong Soon Min's] KISSSSS and its multiple propositions contend with a material present arising from manifold Marxist traditions and historical contingencies—the spectral non-events of unacknowledged conflicts, minor wars, small revolutions, unsanctioned insurgencies, and overlooked rebellions...
TJ Shin, in The _KISSSSS_ of Yong Soon Min