Horror after Horror
Resisting the Affective Economy of Genocide
Artist and researcher Anna Dasović and scholar, writer, and curator Natasha Marie Llorens have engaged in a years-long dialogue on...
The Horror
How curious that Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899) is not read as a horror story, because that’s what...
Idol Horrors: The Thrills and Chills of Obsession
“What’s the difference between love and obsession?” There’s a scene in Alex Russell’s film Lurker (2025) in which Oliver (Archie...
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
Emperatriz Plácido San Martín is an artist, activist, writer, and tattooist based in Lima, Peru and Brussels, Belgium. She works across word and image,...
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.