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The Vermin Issue 02: Against Pleasure

Price

$26.00

Date

2025

Publisher

The Vermin

Format

Periodicals

ISBN

2816-9751

Size

17.5 × 22.6 × 0.5 cm

Length

60 pp

Genre

Contemporary Art, Social Practice, Activism, Essays

Elaine Scarry once wrote that “pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.” The Vermin’s second issue begins to tell that story – not exclusively through the lens of pain, but through the negation of pleasure that ranges from suffering to the banal. Against the backdrop of our feel-good pleasure-centric political and cultural terrain in the capitalist hubs of the Global North, we hope this issue offers an invitation toward political questioning beyond the pleasure principle.

Pieces in Issue 02 include political essays, poetry, short stories, sculpture, illustration, and photography, touching on themes of consumption, sound, speech, food, psychoanalysis, and so much more.

With contributions from Ricky Varghese, Andrew Donnelly, Margot Fabre, Anupa Mistry, Michael Deforge, Alex Bucik , Fan Wu, Angel Callander, Ananda Gabo, Kawai Shen, and June Ng.

Edited by Nazanin Zarepour, Mohamed Serageldin, Saara Frank, Sarah Sarofim, Joy Xiang, Vidhya Elango, Amelia Izmanki, and Nadine Violette.

Designed byFahdad Atin, Monica Chung, and Nima Esmailpour.