'Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing"
Arundhati Roy
For our 10th issue, 5th year, we want to talk about Destiny.
Too often Destiny is this thing we are told to manifest. No longer tethered to fate, but reduced to acts of individual will. It's smooth, spiritual, pre packaged, and circulated as a mantra among wellness, self-help, entrepreneurial discourse. 'What if you could control your destiny in 6 steps?'. Controlling our destiny has become a fantasy, something we are libidinally invested in, a thing that structures our social reality, an idea that makes life bearable. It is necessary.
In this issue, alongside artists, theorists and cultural practitioners across South Asia and beyond, we interrogate destiny, not to cynically reject it, but to shift our relationship to it. Our contributors confront themes of resistance in the age of ethnic populism, community among the misunderstood and marginalised, and the quiet power of personal and collective becoming. We unveil Destiny's inconsistencies, contradictions and structural limits - class, caste, race, geopolitical violence, historical contingency - posing the question:
What if destiny is not something we can control nor a fate we must endure, but an ideological struggle that we must perpetually expose in order to act beyond it?
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'Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing"
Arundhati Roy
For our 10th issue, 5th year, we want to talk about Destiny.
Too often Destiny is this thing we are told to manifest. No longer tethered to fate, but reduced to acts of individual will. It's smooth, spiritual, pre packaged, and circulated as a mantra among wellness, self-help, entrepreneurial discourse. 'What if you could control your destiny in 6 steps?'. Controlling our destiny has become a fantasy, something we are libidinally invested in, a thing that structures our social reality, an idea that makes life bearable. It is necessary.
In this issue, alongside artists, theorists and cultural practitioners across South Asia and beyond, we interrogate destiny, not to cynically reject it, but to shift our relationship to it. Our contributors confront themes of resistance in the age of ethnic populism, community among the misunderstood and marginalised, and the quiet power of personal and collective becoming. We unveil Destiny's inconsistencies, contradictions and structural limits - class, caste, race, geopolitical violence, historical contingency - posing the question:
What if destiny is not something we can control nor a fate we must endure, but an ideological struggle that we must perpetually expose in order to act beyond it?
Shop Issue 10 at
shop.boybrotherfriend.com
