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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.
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"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..."

— Yunning Zhang

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Ornate Grievance: Monstrous Beauty at the Met - ASAP/Review
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, exhibitionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMarch 25, 2025 — August 17, 2025 The circular show Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chin...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..."

— Yunning Zhang

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Ornate Grievance: Monstrous Beauty at the Met - ASAP/Review
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, exhibitionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMarch 25, 2025 — August 17, 2025 The circular show Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chin...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”

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Haunting Time and Space in All of Us Strangers - ASAP/Review
Two haunted buildings organize Andrew Haigh’s 2023 film All of Us Strangers: the first is a nearly empty tower block on the edge of London; the other, a suburban home in Sanderstead, Croydon. The form...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."

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Through the Eyes of the Sheet and by the Feet of the Ghost - ASAP/Review
A friend recently told me that she discarded childhood photos of herself in a homemade ghost costume. “The way the seams of the sheets lined up over my head looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood,”…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”

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The Archival Haunt - ASAP/Review
In her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” Saidiya Hartman likens the archives of transatlantic slavery to a violent and defining death of the Black enslaved. The empirical record of the archives of slavery th...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."

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Past and Potential in Percival Everett’s The Trees - ASAP/Review
The opening page of Percival Everett’s landmark 2021 novel The Trees includes the following line: “the word between usually suggested something at either end, two somethings, or destinations.” This di...
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“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.

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Haunting as Atmospheric Violence - ASAP/Review
Haunting vividly conjures the past-as-present. For minoritarian subjects, a specter can powerfully incarnate the afterlives of structural violence, yet any concept both enables and forecloses interpre...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."

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Of Frogs and Ghosts: Tales of a Haunted Diaspora - ASAP/Review
Save the hug of the chosenthe travel albumthe bookssave the song of the frogsat night. — Alida Ribbi, “Las velas del tiempo” : : I. Animals of all kinds dwell in the memory and find shelter…
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@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."

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Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” and the Hauntology of the Forever War - ASAP/Review
One of the more agreed upon features of “millennial literature” is the centrality of the internet and digital technologies. The lives of millennial writers and their characters are thought to be funda...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.

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Of Haunts and Haoles: Contemporary Scenes of Hawai’i Writing Back - ASAP/Review
Despite our love for a classic ghost story, we know that some figures outside the category of easily registered phantoms can haunt us more than a typical specter. For those arts of the present whose c...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."

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Hauntings: Introduction - ASAP/Review
Ghosts don’t just appear; they return. In the Chinese language, the character for “ghost” (gui) is a homonym for the verb “to return.” The nature of haunting across languages and cultures is one of re...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!!

HAUNTINGS

Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering

Feat:
Nicole Dib
Arin Keeble
Jay Shelat
Irina Troconis
Dorinne Kondo
George Kowalik
A. Banerjee
M. Stang
Christine Prevas

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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more!

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Digital Exhibit: Propaganda, Africanfuturity, and the Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit - ASAP/Review
In collaboration with the artist Emmanuel Nwogbo II, this digital exhibition deploys works of montage that pair seemingly disparate images in order to complicate and extend the legacy of the Biafran s...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Happy hauntings, all! This cluster has been a long time coming, and I bet its rich and suggestive essays will stick around for a long time to come!
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Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!!

HAUNTINGS

Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering

Feat:
Nicole Dib
Arin Keeble
Jay Shelat
Irina Troconis
Dorinne Kondo
George Kowalik
A. Banerjee
M. Stang
Christine Prevas

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December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and I have a new essay out at ASAP/Review about @jamiljankochai.bsky.social's "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak." It was a pleasure to work with Arin and with @davidhering.bsky.social and @emmywaldman.bsky.social!

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December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!!

HAUNTINGS

Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering

Feat:
Nicole Dib
Arin Keeble
Jay Shelat
Irina Troconis
Dorinne Kondo
George Kowalik
A. Banerjee
M. Stang
Christine Prevas

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December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Kicking off the month of December, we’ve got a brand new Feature for y’all: Robert Volpicelli interviews Craig Santos Perez on his poetry, poetics, and the project of “recycling modernism." Check it out now!

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Recycling Modernism in the Pacific Islands: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez - ASAP/Review
Craig Santos Perez—recent winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, promoter of Pacific Islander literature and culture, and environmental thinker—is keen on recycling modernism. Consider “Thirtee...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"In a foreseeable future of worldwide economic downturns, far-right growth, diminishing geo-social mobilities, and higher education crises, how do we sustain spaces of deep humanistic inquiry?" — Shiqi Lin, in our newest Uncanny Juxtapositions

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Uncanny Juxtapositions / Re-Shuffle: How Do We Do Contemporary Global Art, Theory, and Politics Today? - ASAP/Review
I. Shuffle. In the history of music technology, this small button integrated into the Apple iPod in the early 2000s significantly changed the way we listen to music. Unbundled across artist, genre, re...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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In our newest review, Ella Gonzalez reads Marlene Dumas' exhibition, Cycladic Blues, which bridges the old & new: “...it is bodies that unite us as people and challenge us as viewers through our shared fleshiness and shared humanity—ancient and modern.”

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Marlene Dumas’ Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic Museum of Art, Athens - ASAP/Review
A painting featuring a large green figure stands in profile, slightly hunched and rounded at the back, enveloped by a patchy black and off-white color background. In front of the painted figure, in a ...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"The works look at the Great Migration and mirror the reverse-migration from North to South happening more frequently today. Taken together, they unexpectedly create a continuum exploring past and present Black movement across the US." — Ifeanyi Awachie

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Uncanny Juxtapositions / Over-Views of Black Migration in Shore|Lines and Clean Slate - ASAP/Review
In the 2025 installation “Shore|Lines,” exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, Illinois, artist Regina Agu uses “the methodology of landscape panorama” to examine conne...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This month marks the one-year publication anniversary of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS. A labor of love in the commons. Grateful to see this 1st book review in @asapjournal.bsky.social; give it a read and buy a copy of the book for the holidays (linked in the comments): asapjournal.com/review/revie...
Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire - ASAP/Review
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakehold...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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In our newest review, Julian O'Brien looks at the exhibition and book project, *Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire* and analyzes the interplay between social movements, art, witnessing, aesthetics, and the artworld proper:
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Review of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire - ASAP/Review
The past decade has seen a significant shift in the presentation of art that emerges as part of, rather than bearing witness to, social movements. Artists, activists, curators, scholars, and stakehold...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The collection is awesome, algorithms are a lot like an occult practice. Hexing white supremacists, casting spells, tarot, astrology and more featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮
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Séance and Technology Studies - ASAP/Review
My friends who visit San Francisco always comment on how different our advertising is. Step off the plane at SFO and you’re immediately surrounded by billboards promising AI solutions. They say it fee...
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