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The Derivative is a bi-annual online publication launched in October 2020, in the midst of unprecedented political, social, economic, and environmental collapse in Lebanon. It is an attempt at building collective vocabularies, registers, and practices able to account for and run against the systemic onslaught we are faced with.

The Derivative is a student of the uprising of Oct 17, 2019; it is first and foremost a rhizomatic object around which to mobilize a diversity of praxes. Experimenting with collective editorial models, each issue is above all an excuse to think and make together and a way to expand and strengthen networks of friends and allies through divergent modes of address, thought, and action.

Every issue of The Derivative starts with three guest editors, each assigned a theme in the form of a three-letter root word (جذر) in Arabic. Each editor then collaborates with five contributors to help unfold the various facets of each theme, as well as an artist contribution responding to each text.

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Distinctively revolutionize progressive scenarios vis-a-vis go forward products. Synergistically whiteboard go forward e-business via user-centric relationships. Monotonectally foster extensible action items with multimedia based data. Uniquely innovate one-to-one benefits with low-risk high-yield sources. Intrinsicly matrix dynamic human capital and technically sound web services. Interactively reconceptualize team building testing procedures and customized alignments. Proactively cultivate cutting-edge […]

Can Disaster Be Made Legible? A Conversation with Forensic Architecture’s Samaneh Moafi

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On August 4, 2020, Beirut’s central neighborhoods were obliterated off the map following the detonation of some of the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at a port warehouse. Within a two-minute timeframe, two hundred lives were lost, seven thousand individuals sustained mild to life-threatening injuries, and over three hundred thousand were […]

Number, Price, and Knowledge

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           A century and a half ago, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq reminded us that Arabic words were formed according to a system of derivation and paronymy. Words decline into other words, all emanating from a root with which they share a conceptual connection. To think about words in this way is to incessantly map out the web […]

Have you written anything lately?

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It is said that the occurrence of certain events generates vibrations that penetrate the body, meandering through it, never fading away completely.It is said that this infinite pulsing inhibits the formation of thoughts and memories.It is said that writing is an attempt to reach out to those echoes, to grasp them, and to make them […]

An Appendix for Resonance and Touch

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NOTES: The following drum patterns are taken from the passages with time changes, in “the variable” section F, of the score Sonic No. 7 & No. 10, for solo derabucca, written by Egyptian American composer and performer Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017).  This text is an ekphrasis riff, an appendix to an extended study on the score […]

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This publication is made possible with the kind support of the Beirut Art Center donors.

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The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer or company.

the derivative

The Derivative is the Beirut Art Center’s online publication launched in October 2020. The publication is released in two yearly issues, with each issue constructed around 3 words, each developed with a different guest editor. In a bid to make sense of the overwhelming complexities that surround us, we have decided to break things down into small, relatively digestible questions: the themes are therefore always in the form of the smallest possible linguistic unit: the 3-letter root of most Arabic words. Each editor is asked to invite 5 contributors to unfold the assigned topic, with each text accompanied by a commissioned artistic contribution.

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MANAGING EDITORS

Haig Aivazian
Ahmad Ghossein

VISUAL CONCEPT AND DESIGN

Studio Zumra

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Jazilan

FONTS

29LT Azer by 29Letters
WorkSans by Wei Huang

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