Glossary
autosexuality
Shehab Awad takes up the term autosexuality (n.) and offers a parable of self-discovery and acceptance.
chargeurism
A range of terms for post-digital physical and intellectual engagement.
clarkston
Just outside Atlanta, one of America’s most diverse refugee destinations.
daddy
Every week, after the Friday prayer, my dad would drag me along with him to the main fish market in Kuwait—where I lived until I was seventeen—to buy our seafood, raw and wriggling.
disability + visibility
An introduction of key terms for disability.
Language Around Corruption
Who has the authority to witness and name corruption in another?
monument
Patricia Eunji Kim unpacks the word monument and unearths its radical potential.
opacity
The beauty, productivity, and radicality of that which is intentionally unrepresentable.
Shipwreck
In order to attempt navigating the act of the Shipwreck, it is imperative to denote the specific re-definition of Ship...
social capital
Martin G. Fuller is “kind of friendly with” the ART PAPERS editorial team.
Talanoa
This work is an oral history and is best experienced read out loud. Is it possible to make art in...
target
Warren Kanders, David Koch, Larry Fink, British Petroleum and the Sackler Family.
uber
Once just a prefix, a old superlative becomes a noun, a verb, an adverb, an adjective—and a universal elementary particle.
Unions & Terms
These glossaries are far from exhaustive, but they may be useful for understanding the jargon of labor organizing.