Inside ‘POSTPOSTPOST: Reflections on a New Avant-garde’, is a wealth of attempts to capture a kind of contemporary literature and scholarship that expresses a general dissatisfaction towards the
self-effacing on-going lore and neologism-coining/brand narratives of “end times” that the intelligentsias often indulge.
Three ‘canonical’ essays by co-editor Al Hassan Elwan are supplemented by contributions from over 30 artists, designers, academics and thinkers:
Shumon Basar generates a poem from the depths of the DMs. Abdullah Al Mutairi looks at the true weirdos and burnouts of Gulfie internet. Idil Galip, lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture at the
University of Amsterdam opines on memes: As Above, So Below. Brussels-based artist and researcher Rojda Yavuz proclaims that the revolution is an aesthetic, often mediated to us via a screen. Dream
Boy Bookclub dreamer Jonathan Fostar compiles a list of…what is the opposite of recommendations? Co-editor Ruba Al-Sweel writes on the greatest trash can: ideology but make it fashun.

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POSTPOSTPOST returns with its second volume: 666 pages, 60+ contributors, another indefensible inquiry — what is real?

In an era where human agency is allegedly displaced by algorithms, capitalism increasingly ‘lifting’ itself from its material constraints, and ecological breakdown floating as an ambient “new normal”, life persists as meaning collapses; affect takes over as an axis around which reality is negotiated. The colloquial has embedded shorthand, catchall words with metadata to express the visceral, all-too sharp and pointed feeling of something being too real: “fr”, “real”, “chat/grok is this real?”. Everywhere, we grasp at attempts to affirm reality in a material way.

Our cover girl, Bianca Censori, seems to sit at the center of questions around reality, projection and myth — contributing with a manifesto, she joins over 60 writers, artists and thinkers aboard the POSTPOSTPOST train.

Vol. II is a centurial publication that decided not to wait another century. It sets a psychoanalytic reading of AI beside a MrBeast Turing test; Gaza-as-de_dust2 beside a tutorial on how to earn Thielbucks; Triple T battles Grok for V-Bucks beside a meditation on entropy and disappearance; vorarephilia beside the avant-garde's own obituary. Contemporary critique and brainrot theory, printed on the same paper, taken equally (un)seriously.

Contributors include:

Aaron Moulton, Aidan Walker, Alex Mentzel, Ali Talaat, Annja Neumann, Barbie on Acid, Beck Dawson, Bianca Censori, Biuro, Charles Weak, Charlie Robin Jones, Claire Marie Amaya, Dávid Varhegyi, dn.usa, Dominic England, Dylan Lackey, Dilara Fındıkoğlu, eiiws, Eleni Maragkou, Eliza Perraki, Elizaveta Federmesser, Firuza Huseynova, Günseli Yalcinkaya, GK01 (gruppokreativo01), Hesham Elsherif, Ian Bruner, Isabel Millar, Idil Galip, Jack Self, Jak Ritger, James Orlando, Jaya Brekke, Jerome Williams, Jeremy Tawedian, Jesse Damiani, Juline Hadaya, Karina Bush, Kat Kitay, Laylla AbuGharbieh, Maria Perevedentseva, Maxime Buono, Maya Chambers, Michael Meranze, Moike-Aurora Jade, Morgan Meredith, Muhammed Al Mubarak, Nada Mesh, Majeed Malhas and Nadine N. Sayegh, Nour Eldin Hussein, Nourhan Wahdan, Parham Ghalamdar, Romy Gad el Rab and Mhamad Safa, Sam Radford, Sara Marchisio, Sarah Chekfa, Shadeh Kavousian, Simon Gérard, Shumon Basar, Steve F. Anderson, Stephanie LaCava, Sui-Sien Donovan, Theo Meranze, Tiffany Lee, Tosia Leniarska, Victor Unwin, Will Harrison, Yasmin Alrabiei