MIGRANT JOURNAL NO.6: FOREIGN AGENTS

Migrant subjects create migrant imaginaries. Ideas, customs, technologies and expressive forms circulate alongside mobile communities and, in so doing, they mutate, reconfigure and affect surrounding cultures. The very notion of culture is inseparable from these processes of diffusion, friction, transformation and creolization. When the journeys and experiences of people on the move are documented and represented, migration itself becomes the subject of culture. Rituals and institutions, knowledge and identities, phonemes, pigments and pixels, notions of taste, class, gender or ethnicity migrate across time and space at any given epoch. Today, the advent of machine learning and algorithmic technologies means that many of these migrations occur without being mediated, or even perceived, by humans.

In 'FOREIGN AGENTS', the sixth and final issue of MIGRANT JOURNAL, you will follow the journeys of Diamond Painting across China, the real-life utopia of Esperanto, the bedazzled domes of Jerusalem and the digital landscapes of Poland, an exploration of Freud's 'uncanny' and Borges's labyrinths, but also buddae jjigae and fusion-style Polish carp among many other stories. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Jesse Connuck
→ SPAM AMERICANA
Paul Wilson
→ ESPERANTUJO, LAND OF THE HOPEFUL
Reinhard Schmidt and Gabriel Amza
→ PALMS ON BALCONIES
Jonathan Liebembuk
→ UNCANNY LABYRINTHS
Dima Srouji
→ BEDAZZLED JERUSALEM: CITY SIMULACRA AND UNORIGINAL TRUTHS
Pol Esteve and Dennis Pohl
→ POST-IMAGE EU: FROM TV SETS TO DATA FLOWS
Benjamin Orlow
→ ASAFO FLAGS
Martina Muzi
→ 5D DIAMOND FAMILY PORTRAIT
Nice Katlehong
→ MASKANDI, THE TRAVELLING MAN’S MUSIC
Mirjam Kooiman
→ RUN, FOREST, RUN!
Dámaso Randulfe
→ DISLOCATIONS
Marta Michalowska
→ CYPRINUS CARPIO FROM TESCO
Andrew Scheinman
→ THE LAND WHERE LAURELS GROW
Kaspar Hauser
→ THE COMFORTING SHADOW OF KNOWLEDGE