2020 is showcasing a very new kind of reality to all of us – one that left a significant mark on our understanding of daily life and normality. No wonder people are currently yearning for a better place more than ever. more
And that’s exactly why this very issue is titled PARADISE. Having said that, no matter the century, our fascination with paradise has never become threadbare. Its allure is found in its ontological aporia – of its implied potentiality and equal precariousness of total impossibility. Through the pages of history, the goal of paradise has given birth to more than a handful of devastatingly beautiful and unspeakably horrific consequences of paradise of which we’re still swimming in to this day.