Post/doc is a biannual publishing series by the Vera List Center for discursive, speculative, experimental writing and artistic practices. Launched in fall 2022, the series features interdisciplinary works by writers, artists, musicians, and poets that respond to the Center’s programmatic Focus Themes. Documenting connections between disciplines, the theoretical and the practical, Post/doc is a digital space for shared knowledge production.

2024–2025:
Interval

Winter 2024/25: After-endings & Generative Hesitation
Conceptually reflecting on the notion of intervals to explore the possibilities and limitations of recuperating imperially-produced gaps in time, space, and memory.

“Rehearsing Views: Paper Cameras Study Pack” by Katie Giritlian
“an everyday archive of time stolen back” by kimi malka hanauer

2022–2024 Focus Theme:
Correction*

Spring 2024: Rematriating Knowledge
Considering how modes of intergenerational knowing can permeate our perception of the land, and, by extension, “correct” ways of being in the world.

“Phantom Territory” by Lara Atallah
“every pattern needs a passage” by Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Fall 2023: Border(land) Ecologies
Exploring the concept of borderlands through an experiential, “corrective” narrative, touching on themes of surveillance, access, redaction, and legibility.

“야생의 파도와 함께 with tides of the wild” by TJ Shin

Spring 2023: Other Intelligences
Examining notions of “correction” in digital spaces to subvert, distort, and disrupt modes of visibility or legibility of the self to reimagine other forms of artificial and somatic intelligence.

“Paradoxical Intelligence” by Ari Melenciano
“Demon of the Heart” by Catalina Ouyang

Fall 2022: *  as in Correction*
Reflecting on the symbolic potential of the asterisk (as in Correction*) as a tool to amend, to hold space, to contradict, or to expand.

“And Let Us Say” by Jason Lipeles
“on asterisks (*for the stars)” by danilo machado

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Editor: Re’al Christian, VLC Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives