Current Obsession, Radical Surface Issue, Jun 2025

Jun 2025

#9Radical Surface Issue reimagines the ‘human surface’ and other material and immaterial skins as sites of contestation, transformation, and transcendence. 

Inspired by ‘radical imagination’ – ideas rooted in activism and framed as a visionary capacity to foresee a future that transcends current realities – the magazine gestures towards the possibility of profound societal transformation.

Thinkers such as Donna Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti, and Pravu Mazumdar have helped shape this thinking, alongside myriad artists, designers, and scientists who speculate on human futurity and multi-species worldings.

9.VII. Shimmering Worlds: A Sense Of Brilliance, And The Lightness Of BeingThe cosmic allure of luminous surfaces – metals, gemstones, pearls, polished obsidian – whose light-bound spirituality connects Indigenous American understandings of earth, sea and sky.