a person holding up a book with a colorful cover
a person holding an open book with a list of recipes
a set of colorful notebooks on a concrete surface

Bringing together a flavourful rasanblaj of artists and thinkers, Can, Cannot, and Other Options is an anthology of speculative non/fictions, personal and interpersonal confessions, and experimental propositions, that highlights the desires for lives lived fully which have persisted through toxic times and in spite of deep violence. Pathways for other options have always been there all along — the repetitive task of times anew remains, always, to find these paths again.


Contributors: Riksa Afiaty and Theodora Agni, Joshua Babcock, Chand Chandramohan, Stefano Harney, bani haykal, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen and Vinita Gatne (with Areumnari Ee, Dina Mohamed & Wang Duruo), nor, Nurul Huda Rashid, and Marcus Yee.


This publication is supported by The Substation and Goethe Institute Singapore.


Designed by CROP

Printed by Allegro Print

Paper sponsor by RJ Paper


Edited by Wayne WJ. Lim & Soh Kay Min

Published 2021

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Can, Cannot, and Other Options

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Can, Cannot and Other Options: Between Defiance and Desire, Towards Fuller Lives


edited by Wayne Lim and Soh Kay Min

2021

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