Shift Space 4.0

    Writing

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    Letter from the Editors

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    The Ghost & the Machine

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    Where They Can't See Us

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    Lessons from the Digital War Archive: Reflections on Real-Time History

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    Arkana

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    A Path of Tongues

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    Occupied Palestine: The Role of Design in Surveillance

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    Bahamas in the Philippines

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    Ancestral Bodies

Contributors

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    Morehshin Allahyari

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    Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler

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    Jami Nakamura Lin

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    Golrokh Nafisi

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    Foundland Collective

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    Isola Tong

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    Luiza Prado

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    Nour

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    Derek Tumala

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    Joshua Serafin

Shift Space is a publication exploring new media landscapes and critically interrogating technology.

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  • + Previous Issues

Letter from the Editors

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    Morehshin Allahyari

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    Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler

  • The Ghost & the Machine

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    Jami Nakamura Lin

  • A soft, knitted, brown textile cascades down the page, rolled up along the edges. A face, drawn lightly in pencil, emerges from a hole towards the top of the fragment.

    Where They Can't See Us

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    Golrokh Nafisi

  • On an ordinary day, Pegman — a Google Maps employee — finally decides to emerge from the monotonous life she leads as a worker perpetually burdened by the larger-than-life hand magnet hovering above her head.

    Lessons from the Digital War Archive: Reflections on Real-Time History

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    Foundland Collective

  • A screenshot of a computer desktop with two browser windows. The one on the right shows two images of a dimly-lit concrete stairwell.

    Arkana

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    Isola Tong

  • A spread of a zine depicting a golden rectangle surrounded by bands of red and cornflower on the left hand page and a circle of red figures surrounding a golden figure lying on the ground on the right hand page. Above the group is a cornflower, crescent moon and another, smaller golden figure flying into the sky.

    A Path of Tongues

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    Luiza Prado

  • A grainy sepia photograph of rolling hills, foregrounded by a large upright rock.

    Occupied Palestine: The Role of Design in Surveillance

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    Nour

  • A digital collage depicts a man looking at his phone while one of several drones flying in the air scans his face with bright green rays. Behind him is a large concrete tower in front of a Matrix-like black background with columns of green numbers.

    Bahamas in the Philippines

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    Derek Tumala

  • A grainy, iridescent, abstracted tunnel, rendered in peaches and pinks around the perimeter and greens and yellows deeper within its interior. The chasm-like form appears both bodily and landscape-like, depicting craggy surfaces that recede into space.

    Ancestral Bodies

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    Joshua Serafin

  • A group of figures move together under layers of transparent, latex-like material. Light, liquid, and textures blur together into abstraction under a spotlight in an otherwise dark room