“ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE”
Volume Three, Issue One, 2025
Cover illustration by Annie Turner
VOLUME #3, ISSUE #1 “Atmospheres of Violence”
Created in collaboration with Toby Wu of Harvard University, Department of Visual Studies and with our poetry editors Carmine Marrow and Nuno Marques
This special issue raises questions such as: What perceptual, critical, and creative modes are required to not only apprehend atmospheric violence but to address it? Which practices might help to stall or stop its reproduction and repetition? How does one temporally order the emergence of an Atmosphere of Violence, and how can we think, feel, write, and make, as we perceive these atmospheres to be un-subsiding?
table of contents
(1)
Atmospheres of Violence
Carmine Morrow & Nuno Marques
Preface
(2)
Corona Daze
CAConrad
Poetry
(3)
[bonus track]
Gabriela Gomes
Poetry
(4)
I Want to Die Screaming Unclear
Young-Jae Chang Heavy Industries
poetry
(5)
“The Chinese are like barometers”: Philosophical Furniture, Atmospheric Susceptibility, & Emotional Sensitivity
Yang Wang
essay
(6)
Selected Poems
Margaret Ronda
poetry
(7)
In the Air
Courtlin Byrd
poetry
(8)
The Atmospheric Cost of Class-Based Spatial Segregation in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Manon Raffard
essay
(9)
Isostatic Poetics: Unlecturing Atmospheres
Brent Cox
poetry
“Atmospheres of Violence”
Bibliography
Compiled by Leif Turner and Ahna Kim
Ecologies of Vulnerability:
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Theorizing Atmosphere
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Understanding Fanon, Understanding Violence
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Perceiving Historical Atmospheres of Violence
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