And open call for The LOUDREADER Journal
Machines…and Ideas to Postpone the End of the World is an exhibition and event series interrogating ideas, structures, and devices of solidarity, curiosity, imagination, futurism, resistance, embodiment, and storytelling in an effort to challenge the architectures and infrastructures of colonial staging, systematic repression, and technological destruction.
In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, Brazilian philosopher and Indigenous activist Aílton Krenak asks why have we insisted so hard for so long on belonging to what he refers to as the excluding Humanity Club—of modernization, westernization, universalization, pauperization, and destruction—which, most of the time, just limits our capacity for invention, creation, existence, and liberty. While the great majority of the world’s population has been subjugated to living in an enforced civilizing abstraction that suppresses the plurality of forms of life, other imaginaries of spiraling times, and anticolonial futurisms allow cultures and peoples to inhabit a cosmovision beyond the destructive path of capitalism.
Machines…and Ideas to postpone the End of the World continues the questions asked in the exhibitions and events The Earth is a Tree Full of Poems…Like Mushrooms of the Air (2023), Form Land Grab to LandBack (2023), Unpayable Debts (2022), and The Planetary Wretched in a Room of Loudreaders (2021). Presented at the Gallery of the College of Design of Iowa State University, the exhibition includes interactive installations, short stories, images, structures, films, narratives by:
Dan Roche, Andrew Santa Lucia, and Lane Rick, Jerome Haferd Studio with Laura Gadson, Nora Akawi, Eduardo Rega Calvo, Daniel Ruiz, and Rami Nakhleh, Post-Novis (Christopher Rey Perez, Rose Florian, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Holly Craig, Ophelia S. Chan, Hilary Weise, Coco Allred, WAI Think Tank / Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski, and Ema Yuizarix), Traumnovelle, Ritwik Banerji, Kristen Mimms Scavnicky, Evan Hume, [phylum] (Bello Bello, Carlos Castellanos, Johnny DiBlasi), Peter Zuroweste; students from the earth is a tree full of poems (dsn-546): Sophi Allen, Muhammet Arslan, Alexis Banks, Cynthia Cai, Alexis Clark, Finn Digmar, Andrea Gutierrez, Sophia Maguiña, Saad Ouazzani Taibi, Donoval Sandoval, Allison True, Jaelyn Waddle, Nan Xiao, Hanyuan Zhang, Timothy Zhang, Ziheng Zhou; and students from LIO Lab (Lima / Iowa Operation): A South / North Design-Build Studio: Gabriella Saholt, Britney Brcka, Elizabeth Dougherty, Travis Ngo, Ethan Sall, Ashley Boun
Events include:
Media + Narratives: November 17
From Land Grab to LandBack/LandBack Landscape Poems book presentation: November 21
The LOUDREADER Journal call for contributions
In anticipation of the 2025 iteration of LOUDREADERS Trade School, The LOUDREADER invites submissions that explore emancipatory imaginaries at the intersection of race, class, gender, ecology, and technology.
The LOUDREADER is a new digital and print journal published biannually by Loudreaders Trade School. In the form of an antidisciplinary and multilingual publication, The LOUDREADER considers the Caribbean’s geopolitical, linguistic, historical pluriversality as it documents, disseminates, and thinks collectively about the future of social and ecological justice, reparations, rematriations, reconstructions, while accounting for incompatibilities, contradictions, ironies, and strategies of subversion and reinvention. The LOUDREADER imagines the “becoming Caribbean of the world,” as the brutality of extraction and exploitation, that was the blueprint of the plantation (and its economies), has spilled out onto the rest of the world like organic matter.
The LOUDREADER is…
Anti-disciplinary and open to contributions form the humanities, law, social sciences, arts, architecture, urbanism, agroecology, and design… Multilingual to reflect the diversity of histories in the Caribbean, and welcomes submissions in creole, Spanish, English, French… Emancipatory and interested in narratives of liberation, and critical projects that challenge the status quo.
Submission guidelines
Articles and manifestos: 500–5,000 words / Creative works: Poetry, short fiction, visual art, comic strips, and other creative forms.
All submissions must be accompanied by a brief bio of the author(s). Submission deadline: January 30, 2025. Publication date: Summer 2025 During LOUDREADERS Trade School in Puerto Rico.
How to submit: Please submit your contributions electronically to contact [at] loudreaders.com as a Word document or PDF attachment. For more information, please visit our website.