Expeditions of Projection

Conversation explores the importance of speculative fiction in realm of the Palestinian imaginary, as Palestinians write their own narratives, worlds, and futures.

Panel: Palestinian Futurism, FIYAH

What is most striking about Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s work is the Fanonian sense apparent in their work: to not only destroy the colonial settler’s fundamental grounds, but the entire rationality that the colonial settler works within.

Through the Algorithm: Empire, Power and World-Making in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s ‘If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust’ at the Art Institute Chicago

This text aims to contribute to the ever-shapeshifting futurity of Palestinians through the frames of temporality and spatiality, most notably through the archive and construction of language. 

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