Launch: Errant Journal #9 Companions

Framer Framed and Errant Journal are happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s ninth issue Companions. Co-editor Katia Krupennikova introduces the issue, after which doctoral researcher and writer Keto Gorgadze elaborates on her contribution ‘The Violence of Tropicalization: On the Politics of Cold and Whiteness in the Subtropics of the Caucasus.’ The event closes with a conversation between Keto, Katia, editor-in-chief Irene de Craen and the audience.

The editorial/imaginative centre of the ninth issue of Errant Journal is located in regions affected by Russian imperial aggression, from where it makes connections across times, geographies and ontologies to explore the radical potential of companionship. Companionship is understood not as agreement, but as a shared responsibility across unequal histories. It means not being full without the other.

While forms of imperial and colonial violence might differ in places and through times, the issue recognises how colonial mechanisms are sustained, how they present themselves as if they were past, all the while shapeshifting and continuing in new forms and places in the present. By bringing these contexts in relation, this issue aims to show how certain borders, biases, clichés and power structures travel, mutate and shape both human and non-human lives and landscapes. Ultimately, companionship is about prioritising life and insisting that no oppression is singular.

Contributors
Adriana Arroyo, Keto Gorgadze, Andreas Kalkun, Lee Kai Chung, Samira Makki, Ana Mikadze, Petrică Mogoș, Fabienne Rachmadiev, Vaim Sarv, Victoria Soyan Peemot, Czyka Tumaliuan, Iryna Zamuruieva

Register here to join the launch. Get your copy of Errant Journal at the Framer Framed bookstore or order directly online.

Credits

This issue is a concept by and co-edited with Katia Krupennikova.

Errant Journal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant ́s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of centres, linearity, roots and dichotomy. Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable.

Framed Framed is founding partner of Errant Journal, a concept by Irene de Craen.