Horror After Horror
Emperatriz Plácido San Martín, Para Mi Santa, Mi Protectora, Installation view of Deja Que Los Muertos Entierren a Sus Muertos, Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima, Perú, 2024 [courtesy of the artist]
Guest co-edited by Re’al Christian, this issue explores a range of interpretations and evocations of Horror as a medium of displacement through which to process extreme feelings and cultural conflicts.
Table of Contents
- Editors’ Letter — Re’al Christian & Sarah Higgins
- Listen to Our Muertos: Emperatriz Plácido San Martín — Camila Palomino
- Plantation Horror — Frances Cathryn
- Idol Horrors: The Thrills and Chills of Obsession — Brandy Monk-Payton
- The Horror — Charles Mudede
- Resisting the Affective Economy of Genocide — Natasha Marie Llorens & Anna Dasović in conversation
- Glossary: Revolt (n.) (v.) — Re’al Christian
- Reviews: Essex Hemphill: Take Care of Your Blessings — TK Smith
- Reviews: Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions — Edward Austin Hall
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Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions
Park animates the tug-of-war between pareidolia and paraphilia that would reasonably beset a society populated by androids who can pass for human, humanoid robots that cannot, some humans whose bionic enhancements make them more machine than flesh, and others whose foibles signal a nature too human for comfort.
Revolt
Resisting the Affective Economy of Genocide
The Horror
Essex Hemphill: Take Care of Your Blessings
Idol Horrors: The Thrills and Chills of Obsession
Horror After Horror
This issue, Horror After Horror, explores a range of interpretations and evocations of Horror as a medium of displacement through which to process extreme feelings and cultural conflicts. The title alludes both to the relentlessness of horrific events unfolding on a global scale and to the anticipation and unthinkability of what could come next.
Listen to Our Muertos—Emperatriz Plácido San Martín
Plantation Horror
Plantations, as we understand them, declined after Emancipation. But the plantation of the American South has endured in the cultural imagination because of its ability to relentlessly innovate. The Southern plantation—as a place, and as an idea—has become decoupled from its violent past, making it easier to commodify for public consumption.