Tripwire, a journal of poetics, is devoted to a counter-institutional exploration of radical and experimental modes of contemporary poetics, art, and cultural politics. The journal was founded in 1998 by Yedda Morrison and current editor David Buuck. Six issues were published between 1998-2002, with a special supplement published in September 2004 for the RNC protests in New York, before rebooting in 2014, with the Tripwire Pamphlet Series begun in 2019. Since 2018, The Poetry Center at SFSU has hosted the annual Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series.
*TRIPWIRE IS NOW DISTRIBUTED THROUGH ASTERISM BOOKS*
Guiding us to formally and politically interesting writing for almost 20 years now, Tripwire has never failed to surprise and delight. Where else can one find an essay on literature as self-defense, a conceptual art piece in which cursed paintings are sent to bankers, and Greek poetry of the crisis? This journal is what I read when I want to know what is going on. — Sianne Ngai
Tripwire … fuels the Engine to some of the most culturally, politically relevant writing of our time. Every issue is what people call a keeper: an aesthetically flexible yet focused scanning of social relevancies. From the Transnational to Global Speculative to Hyper Local, the journal ranges wide and deep with a consistently that is its own. The feel is a highly artful, paper-vulnerable, quite perishable, but much cherished journal of poetics to be read cover to cover. Tripwire is currently the get with what’s what — now, and a tad beyond. — Rodrigo Toscano
I consider Tripwire to be one of the last real revolutionary magazines out there anymore. — Cait O’Kane
editor: David Buuck
co-founding editor: Yedda Morrison
assistant editor & designer: Gordon Faylor
editorial assistants: Lara Durback & Coco Fitterman
minister of information: Fadl Fakhouri
translations editor: Zêdan Xelef
We mourn the passing of longtime Tripwire designer Cassandra Smith (1980-2020), who was responsible for the look and layout template of the current series.
PACBI/BDS
Tripwire Journal stands in total solidarity with the people of Palestine and commits to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). In complying with the guidelines of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) we adhere to a boycott of the following:
- Boycott any cultural product commissioned by an official Israeli body
- Boycott any cultural product funded by an official Israeli body, even if not commissioned
- Boycott any cultural event that is partially or fully sponsored or funded by an official Israeli body
- Refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration, or joint projects with Israeli institutions, including suspension of all forms of funding and subsidies to/from these institutions
- Refrain from hosting or circulating any events or cultural products operating under the auspices of “normalization”, or which advance a false symmetry between oppressed and oppressor
- Support Palestinian academic and cultural institutions directly without requiring them to partner with Israeli counterparts as an explicit or implicit condition for such support
More information: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi
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