Amber Husain

In this wide-ranging and intellectually lively essay, Amber Husain asks if our obsession with replacement is the very thing that is keeping the world in stasis. And, if so, with what might we replace our obsession with replacement? With references spanning the avant-garde art tec--futurism, and Effective Altruism, and taking in writers from Aristotle to Anne Boyer, Replace Me is a celebration of the possibilities for political transformation inherent in the act of embracing one's own replaceability.

Replace Me

Mark Lewis

Nav Haq

Adeena Mey

Amanda Carneiro

Charles Stankievech

Established in 1998, Afterall is a journal of contemporary art that provides in-depth analysis of art and its social, political, and philosophical contexts. Each issue provides the reader with well-researched contributions that discuss each artist's work from different perspectives. Contextual essays and other texts discussing events, works, or exhibitions further develop the thematic focus of each issue. Issue 52 includes work from Kapwani Kiwanga, Natasa Petresin Bachelez, Sepake Angiama, Jonas Staal, Ana Texeira Pinto, Ghalya Saadawi, Aldo Tambellini, Darby English, and Enrico Camporesi.

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