black radical futures

The Living Commons Collective Magazine, n. 4, July 2026

 What if what is to come, what is next, is not a point in the definite straight line of time? What if the future is but that indefinite, uncountable and unnamed, undescribable and measurable possibilities gifted by every larger and minor practice of auto-defense and fugitivity that account for how black persons and populations still exist in this world after centuries under the threat and experience of total violence? Towards bringing this aspect of the black experience in the Americas and the Caribbean, this special issue invites artists, scholars, curators, and art educators to contribute to this special issue to consider and experiment with the following questions: What if we took seriously the possibility that this world, as we know it, may (be coming) to an end? What if we considered that this may well result from both ecological and social devastations as well as radical propositions and programs for another world, a better world, whatever that may look like? We dread the loss of this world, but have we begun to imagine the one to come? How to imagine it collaboratively?