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Current IssueSpring 2025

Issue 160

Extra Life

In this issue’s extended editorial note, Bracy Appeikumoh asks, “Was utopia, like extra lives, envisioned as a means of escaping death?” Among the haunting contradictions of living in the imperial core, whose violences seek their own immortality, to seize a different kind of “extra life” takes an extra real imagination. Across virtual game worlds, ancestral inheritances, unfinished revolutionary histories, artists’ data storage, and more, contributors to C160 reflect on extra life as a state both surplus and sacred—what persists in age-old cycles of decay.

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One of the reasons I keep returning to text and writing is the possibilities they provide for questioning the boundaries [...] between self and other, along with concomitant boundaries between life and death.
Nic Wilson, in The Afterlife of Writing