Stillpoint Magazine Issue 11: SLEEP “Dream On” launch.
The latest issue features essays, poetry and contemporary digital artwork.
Stillpoint Magazine is thrilled to announce the launch of our eleventh issue. In SLEEP, contributors delve into the hidden complexities of our dream lives and look frankly at our waking lives and how we may be asleep to the challenging reality of the contemporary world. In this issue, we have poetry condemning the deadly, latent power and ongoing functioning of white supremacy by henry 7. reneau jr.; and fiction dramatising the trance of grief, and the ways land, even a site of toxicity, can provide a nepenthe by Laura Lynes. In SLEEP we also have two essays, one co-authored by Kara Kohn-Gardner and Carlos Padrón and one by Aneta Stojnić. These essays present a case for the relevance of psychoanalysis today and the discipline’s unique ability to uphold and explore the power of our individual and collective dreams. We also have a critical-philosophical takedown of the intertwinement of violence and romance in contemporary coupling by Luce deLire. These texts are placed in juxtaposition and dialogue with visual artworks by artists Bet Bettencourt, Paola Estrella, Sky Hopinka, Zinzi Minott, Connor Marie, and Anika Roach. These artworks explore resistance through sound and dance practices; the secret nausea of femininity’s limitations; the ignorance inherent in racism’s pervasiveness; the confrontation of repressed desires and pleasures; new mythology on the ability of Xąwįska to return people to consciousness in the Ho-Chunk tradition. The issue also features a fashion editorial exploring rest as a remedy and a move toward reparations.
Launched in June 2019, Stillpoint Magazine is a nonprofit, international magazine of contemporary art, literature, psychoanalysis, and theory. Stillpoint Magazine inhabits digital spaces to build public knowledge that’s rooted in community psychoanalysis and collective, multiple, inclusive, radical, and hidden truths. We bring curated interdisciplinary scholarship, contemporary literature, and visual artwork to the public domain through our three open-source, concept-based issues per year, and through our two Exclusive Supporters Issues for subscribers. During a period of global precarity, we believe in the urgent, essential role of art, literature, and critical thinking and analysis, outside of historically-exclusionary institutions like universities, museums, and psychoanalytic institutes. In all we do at Stillpoint Magazine, we strive to continue becoming: anti-racist, feminist, queer, ecologically attentive, anti-colonial, and equitable.
