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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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Issue 3, Wave 1, Post 1

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Notes Towards an Alliance with the Revenant

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To write is to work for the dead, to create the conditions needed for the ghost to return. In order to do so, the writer must let go of the desire to tell a story. The dead don’t tell stories. They return to disrupt narratives that insist on beginnings, middles, and ends. The dead move […]

Test Intro 2 for Issue 3

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Issue 3 – March 2022

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Subject 1 ش.ب.ح (Ghost)Guest editor: 𝗠𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝘀 “Ghost”/شبح invites contributors to explore the revenant as literary trope, material manifestation, and political promise.Engaging instances of afterlife, death, and realms in-between, the issue seeks to develop a poetics commensurate with the labor of grief. Commissioned artists: Writer 1 – Artist 1 Writer 2 – Artist 2 Writer […]

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

DISCLAIMER

The editors have made every effort to contact all copyright holders of the images used in this publication. If you claim copyright of any of the images presented here and have not been properly identified, please contact the editors with sufficient proof that you are the copyright holder. They will update the publication with a formal acknowledgment of your copyright.

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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