The new issue of Shifter is out, up, etc. It includes:
Pedro Barateiro
Natalie Bell
Rori B. S. Bellow
Joseph Bradshaw
Kalle Brolin
Catherine Czacki
Susana Gaudêncio
Juan Manuel Ipiña
Susan Jahoda
Runo Lagomarsino
Pieter Spealman
Anna Vitale
Read this first:
While stranded in Dublin, Ohio on September 13th 2001 due to the grounding of all domestic flights in the US, the editors visited the local library. Thumbing through the card catalogue, they found a reference to “Other Possibilities,” by Indira Sylvia (I.S.) Belissop assigned the Dewey Decimal call number 125.20. Let alone the book, even this curious number inserted between “Teleology” (124) and “The Self” (126) has since been impossible to find in major libraries around the world. The book itself did not appear on the shelf, and the card, in classic Courier font, stated simply, “Collected writings of Mozambique-born philosopher”. Although when the shelves were checked, the book itself was missing, three torn out pages with an anonymously penned biography of Belissop were found in its place. We have reproduced this biography in its entirety below. The anonymous pages, needless to say, testify to the remarkable significance of a thinker who seems never to have existed.
We have put together this issue to redress the absence of this singular philosopher and the closure of historical possibility that her near erasure represents. Collected herein are artistic inspirations, archival discoveries and critical essays which all bear the trace of her indelible impact.
out of the rubble