Artists: Mauro Altamura, Igor Baskin, Chris Bors, Cammi Climaco, Ben Colebrook
Sunoj D, Michael Eddy, Seth Ellis, Curtis... More > Evans, Swetha Gowri, Benjamin Grasso, Alina Viola Grumiller
Vandana Jain, Sonia Jose, Misako Kitaoka
Miranda Maher, Alisdair McRae, Anne M. Platoff, Ana Prvacki, Kamya Ramachandran, Dan Levenson, Nora Schultz
Ruben Verdu, Anna Vitale, Bethany Wright, Joe Zane

///Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath

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Participants: Caleb Larsen, Matthew Bollinger, Barbara Jane Reyes, Alison O'Daniel, Sue Havens, Jason Yoh, Ana Prvacki,... More > Crispin Webb, Baron, Benjamin Grasso // Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath // www.shifter-magazine.com < Less

Participants: Laura Marsh, Paolo Javier, Babu Eshwar Prasad, Carlos Motta, Sreshta Premnath, Sonia Jose, Sunoj D., Kristin... More > Baumlier // Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath // www.shifter-magazine.com < Less

Most libraries around the world use the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDCS) to list and categorize books. It was an... More > attempt to organize all knowledge into ten main classes, which are further subdivided into 100 divisions and 1000 sections. This makes the DDCS appear purely numerical and infinitely rational. However, DDCS is regularly revised, reflecting how culture, ideology, and the perception of knowledge change over time. As a result of these changes and to provide for future alterations 89 of the 1000 sections in the system are classified as “ Unassigned.”

For this issue of Shifter we invited artists, writers, activists and scholars to comment on, disturb and restructure the logic of this system by adding new categories to fill the unassigned spaces. These comments, reflections, parasite systems or prosthetic extensions all expand on what is structurally “knowable” within the institution of the public library, by opening up the possibilities held within its undefined categories. < Less

Participants: Benjamin Grasso, Surekha, Eric Gottesman, Meg Duguid, Jason Yoh, Helki Franzten // Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath // www.shifter-magazine.com

Gnosis (from the Latin gnosos meaning "knowledge" and nosos meaning "disease") is an intriguing meditation on the... More > subjectivity of perception. Composed by artist Sreshta Rit Premnath, it consists of eight collaged silhouettes accompanied by two found texts: a 19th century clinical description of the neurological condition anosognosia and a list of CIA counterintelligence categories used in the interrogation of suspects. < Less

Participants: Ben Colebrook, Nathan Haenlein, Valerie Hegarty, Jeremy Hovenaar, Tim Hutchings, Matt King, Branden Koch, Liz... More > N Val, Caitlin Masley, Laura Marsh, Carlos  Motta, Keiko Narahashi, Yamini Nayar, Patrick O'Hare, Jason Paradis, Carrie  Paterson, Sharon Paz, Megan Pflug, Ben Polsky, Kristin Schaffenberger, Michael Schall, Maya Schindler, Holli Schorno, Bernhard Schreiner, Tucker Schwarz, Andre' Spears, Derek Stroup, Ruben Verdu, Lisa Vinebaum, Jessica Westbrook < Less

Participants: Jason Yoh, Surekha, Sonia Jose, Christian Wulffen, Avinash Veeraraghavan, H. L. Hix // Editor: Sreshta Rit... More > Premnath // www.shifter-magazine.com < Less

Mary Jo Toles, Charles Mayton, Joshua Thorson, Chana Morgenstern, Valeria Cordero, Branden Koch, Christopher Landau,... More > Priyanka Dasgupta, Martha Sakellariou, Paula Hayes, Benjamin Grasso, Carole Kim, Heidi Pollard, Andrea Moreau, Eric Sanchez, Dorothy Gambrell, Seth Fragomen, Crispin Webb, Michelle Murphy // Editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath // www.shifter-magazine.com < Less

EDITORS: Sreshta Rit Premnath, Warren Neidich
| |CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Alliez, Bernard Andrieu, Eric Angles, Kader Attia, Elena... More > Bajo, Lindsay Benedict, Nicholas Chase, Seth Cluett, Zoe Crosher, Krysten Cunningham, Yevgeniy Fiks,Dan Levenson,Antje Majewski,T. Kelly Mason,Michele Masucci,Daniel Miller,Seth Nehil, Warren Neidich, Susanne Neubauer, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chloe Piene, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Linda Quinlan, Patricia Reed, Silva Reichwein, Barry Schwabsky, Gemma Sharpe, Amy Sillman, Francesco Spampinato, Tyler Stallings, Laura Stein, Clarissa Tossin, Brindalyn Webster, Lee Welch, Olav Westphalen, James Yeary | |
DESIGN: Dan Levenson
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