Author(s): Sasha da Silva

Essay

Pragmatic Speculativity, less the thickness of feeling returns to the discussion of speculativity that began in it was both, and. (2019). The excerpts within this Abridged selection were written in 2018, 2019 and during the nation-wide level 4 lockdown in 2020. As meditations on the experience of being alive -- corporeal, leaking and blustering from the page -- these collected writings hold the fragmented remains of an reckoning with what is, what might be and the ways in which these ideas mis-match to the actual world.

Sasha is a Pākehā writer, publisher, artist, activist and community-organiser based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Born in Kawakawa, and yet a deterritorialised child of globalisation, Sasha is increasingly feeling bound, held and held accountable to the whenua of Aotearoa.