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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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Karice Mitchell: I’m always thinking about access, and access to these images, because they’re no longer in production. There is a scarcity, but I’m not sharing the entire image. That’s a way to mitigate consumption, and to maybe try to dictate the way that these images are being consumed.
Furqan Mohamed, and Karice Mitchell in Black, Alive, and Looking Back at You: In Conversation With Karice Mitchell