21.12.21 — Issue Zero — A!kira

Publishing Anything in the Age of Capitalist Doom

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The adage of the millennial generation seems to ring true today more than ever before. Without sincerely invoking the notion of “generations”, those born into the reality of Neoliberal Capitalism constantly experience a number of paradoxical dissonances. We have been disciplined into eternal self-improvement, as if every second must be efficient, while simultaneously aware of the dangers and precarity of it all. It is not just to say that young people are anxious of imminent threats, but we have grown up being told, categorically, that the Earth is totally fucked, the human race is doomed on every level.

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