Publisher’s Note

Spiritual Successor

After a long hiatus, sometimes the best approach is starting again from the beginning. Since our last issue in late 2018, a few dramatic things have happened globally that — wouldn’t you know it — have had very particular local implications. There was even a fairly extended period during which “supply chain” was an acceptable and tempting excuse for delays of any kind. But the varied reasons for the unaccountable disappearances and periodic reemergences of small magazines are almost always more personal and subterranean in nature. With that in mind, we return to our regularly scheduled programming with no great fanfare or elaborate promises of future consistency.

This issue explores the tricks we resort to playing on ourselves to finally get behind the glass. We’re caught for the moment in an odd kind of non-now now, not to mention a strange breed of not-here here, for which an evolving set of new tactics and strategies may be necessary to accomplish anything at all.

As individual human input plays less and less of a role in what happens, it feels important to retain some of the muscle memory we may want to randomly access in the future. After all, nobody expects the AI Cambrian Explosion. And on the narrative front, there are worse things than spoiling the end of the world.

As always and very truly yours…

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