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Join us Friday Oct 17, 5-7pm for the launch of PUBLIC 71: Against Oblivion 📣 We'll be in the Fireside Lounge at York University for this year's UAAC. Grab a copy of this amazing new issue (amidst a postal strike!) and refreshments 🍷 Lotsa back issues & books available for purchase!

Are you in the Edmonton area next week? Come to an epic (and FREE) screening of 5 experimental IMAX films, preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format! www.eventbrite.com/e/outer-worl...

New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage LA’s Getty Foundation is funding the documentation of the historic neighborhood as developers rush to buy up burned lots.

In the wake of the devastating Eaton Fire that ravaged nearly 7,000 structures in and around Altadena, the Getty Foundation has committed $420,000 to document the loss of culturally significant sites in the area and take stock of its “intangible heritage.”

Archives of Resistance - PUBLIC The Politics of Remembering in Suneil Sanzgiri's An Impossible Address 12 April—14 June 2025 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada Published 11 June 2025 Featured image: Suneil Sanzgiri, still from An Impossi...

🚨New Review Alert🚨 "Archives of Resistance: The Politics of Remembering in Suneil Sanzgiri’s «An Impossible Address»". In their review, Mustafa Uzuner examines various levels of uncertainty in this hybrid film-installation as profound counter-archival gestures. publicjournal.ca/online/archi...

A gloved hand holds a clump of soil with the words "call for submissions" layered over top.

Just over a month left to submit to issue 73: (Re)Mediating Soils, to be published in Spring 2026. We're looking for articles, artist projects, personal essays, interviews, and poetry about relational approaches to soil-as-media. Read the full call + proposal guidelines at publicjournal.ca/submit

Graphic advertising the call for submissions

Just 6 weeks left to send in a proposal for Issue 72: (Searching For Home). This issue will examine various concepts of home through displaced and diasporic perspectives. Propose an article, personal essay, artist project, or short story at publicjournal.ca/submit Deadline: Feb 21st.

Signs You May Be a Female Character in a Work of Historical Fiction Your name is Sarah. A stranger has walked up to you, explained how a system of transportation works, and left before you could further converse wit...

"You have a maid who either scolds you or adores you, or both. You have never shown the slightest interest in exploring her interior life. Neither has she."

“Foreigners Everywhere” – PUBLIC

We finish this year's edition of PUBLIC Online with a new column: Notes From Somewhere... Gabby Moser looks back with a critical eye (and a slushy boot) at the 60th Venice Biennale, reflecting on its curatorial promises—glints thereof and obvious gaps. Read it here: publicjournal.ca/online/forei...

A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in August 1992 to interview Susan Rothenberg

Martin Filler on the art of Bruce Nauman

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS • PUBLIC 72: (Searching For Home) — Seeking essays, articles, poetry, short fiction, and visual art for publication in Fall 2025. See the full details and submit a proposal at: publicjournal.ca/submit

📣 Announcing our 30-day donor drive! 🏁 This year, when you give you also get back. From now until Friday December 20th we're offering free subscriptions, books, and artist multiples on a 6-tier scale of giving. Check out all the details and donate at: publicjournal.ca/donate #charity #notforprofit

Taking Back Control? The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centraliz...

Out today: Taking Back Control? by Wolfgang Streeck

An exploration of the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, the book is an attempt at a renewed theory of the state in political economy.

Now available for pre-order 💨 70: The Weather ☔️ ed. Joel Ong. This issue investigates the cultural, literary & engineered histories of the weather, focusing not only on the felt effects of climate collapse but also on embodied ways to understand our changing atmosphere. Purchase at publicjournal.ca

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And, here we are—goodbye toxic Twitter-verse. We've switched the scenery but none of the substance. Followers: Rest assured that we'll continue to provide you with updates on our upcoming print journals, most recent online publishing, and insightful and invigorating artist talks and panels.