KAJET Journal 05 – Budapest launch

Special guests: Petre Mogoș, Laura Naum (and more guests to be announced)

Date: 6pm, 22nd February, 2022

Venue: ISBN könyv+galéria, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 2.

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Kajet Journal 05: On Easternfuturism seeks to formulate new imaginative, speculative, and critical modes of existence for the future of Eastern Europe. Over the last three decades of increased precarity and insecurity, the act of remodelling the future has disappeared in the turbulent transformations that took over Eastern Europe. The very notion of imagining a better future was relegated into a worn-out ideal, widely regarded as a by-product of privilege, or removed entirely from the collective imagination. Who has time to think about the future in the age of semiocapitalism, when ideology has pervasively leaked into all forms of existence? Juxtaposed between utopia and absurdity, even the possibility of fantasising about what is to come has been discarded and nullified. The main intention of the fifth issue of Kajet Journal is to tentatively sketch a re-conceptualisation of Eastern Europe’s future: to formulate a novel prototype of Easternfuturism, one that is by no means exhaustive but should be read as an invitation for new cultural, artistic, and activist entities to develop their own understandings of the concept.

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Uroš Pajović, Pavlo Borshchenko, Anna Tokareva, Boglárka Börcsök, Katalin Erdődi, Arseny Zhilyaev, Andreas Bolm, Cosmin Nicolae, Márk Fridvalszki, Maria Plichta, Michael Dietrich, Paulina Korobkiewicz, Natalia Domagala, Alicja Melzacka, Ingel Vaikla, Luminița Toma, Sayam Ghosh, Andrei Becheru, Holly Bushman, Martina Vacheva, Simona Žemaitytė, Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Anna Engelhardt & Sasha Shestakova), Marina Oprea, Maximilian Lehner, Makar Tereshin, Ștefan Ambrosie Ionescu, Elena Stanciu, Sabin Staicu, Julien Britnic, Andrei Nicolescu, Jack McClelland, Petre Mogoș, Laura Naum, Sonia Voss, Cristina Stoenescu, Natasha Klimenko, Daryl Mersom, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, s.a.b.a
Edited by Petre Mogoș & Laura Naum
Design by Regular Practice
Cover: Sumy: Sorrowfuturism, by Pavlo Borshchenko
Publisher: Dispozitiv Books
Language: English
Pages: 298 pages
Size: 16,5 x 23 x (2) cm
ISSN: 2559 – 8015
www.kajetjournal.com

The Future of: This is the first edition of The Future of, a quarterly magazine, that seeks to reimagine, reclaim, and remap future potentialities of ideas that are shaping contemporary society. The aim of each edition is to deconstruct, recontextualise, and critically tackle notions that can be recuperated as valuable tools in developing a toolkit for a more livable, more just future. The first such idea that we seek to decipher is the convoluted concept of nostalgia. Our nostalgia is a doomed speculative tool that anticipates futures that never come. Our nostalgia is not our vulnerability, but our salvation and our antidote to a hyper-accelerated modernity. Our nostalgia is a nostalgia for the future: a radically new vision through which our relationship with time is reconfigured and in which a new temporal rhythm is proposed.

Ștefan Ionescu Ambrosie, Robert Antoniac, Andreea Badea, Andrei Becheru, Aliona Ciobanu, Mark Fridvalszki, George Jepson, Natasha Klimenko, Ramin Mazur, Andrei Mihail, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Petre Mogoș, Vlad Nancă, Laura Naum, Veronica Nojac, Adrian Petcu, Cristina Plecadite, Bogdan Stelea, Ileana Szasz, Andrei Răzvan Voinea, Bogdan Vârșan
Editors: Petre Mogoș & Laura Naum
Cover: Found archival image by Ramin Mazur
Publisher: Dispozitiv Books
Language: English
Pages: 128 pages
Size: 23 x 31 cm
ISSN: 2810 — 4250
https://kajetjournal.com/thefutureof/