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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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Have you written anything lately?

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It is said that the occurrence of certain events generates vibrations that penetrate the body, meandering through it, never fading away completely.It is said that this infinite pulsing inhibits the formation of thoughts and memories.It is said that writing is an attempt to reach out to those echoes, to grasp them, and to make them […]

Hypochondriacal with the World*

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Ill (noun): Old Nors illr “Lost in the mists of time”.   Sick (adjective): “Ill, diseased; troubled, deeply affected”. “Tired or weary, disgusted from satiety”; “Mentally twisted”; seocmod “infirm of mind”. What of suffering (noun)? One time during a pandemic, I felt ill. Really ill for months. They tell me I’m always sick. They tell me […]

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MANAGING EDITOR

Haig Aivazian

Resident Editor

Lori Kharpoutlian

Arabic Editor

Rida Hariri

VISUAL CONCEPT AND DESIGN

Studio Zumra

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Jazilan

FONTS

29LT Azer by 29Letters and WorkSans by Wei Huang

Publisher

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