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The Vermin Issue 02: Against Pleasure
- Date
- 2025
- Publisher
- The Vermin
- Format
- Periodicals
- ISBN
- 2816-9751
- Size
- 17.5 × 22.6 × 0.5 cm
- Length
- 60 pp
- Genre
- Contemporary Art, Social Practice, Activism, Essays
Elaine Scarry once wrote that “pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.” The Vermin’s second issue begins to tell that story – not exclusively through the lens of pain, but through the negation of pleasure that ranges from suffering to the banal. Against the backdrop of our feel-good pleasure-centric political and cultural terrain in the capitalist hubs of the Global North, we hope this issue offers an invitation toward political questioning beyond the pleasure principle.
Pieces in Issue 02 include political essays, poetry, short stories, sculpture, illustration, and photography, touching on themes of consumption, sound, speech, food, psychoanalysis, and so much more.
With contributions from Ricky Varghese, Andrew Donnelly, Margot Fabre, Anupa Mistry, Michael Deforge, Alex Bucik , Fan Wu, Angel Callander, Ananda Gabo, Kawai Shen, and June Ng.
Edited by Nazanin Zarepour, Mohamed Serageldin, Saara Frank, Sarah Sarofim, Joy Xiang, Vidhya Elango, Amelia Izmanki, and Nadine Violette.
Designed byFahdad Atin, Monica Chung, and Nima Esmailpour.
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