POSTPOSTPOST returns with its second volume: 666 pages, 60+ contributors, another indefensible inquiry — what is real?In an era where human agency is allegedly displaced by algorithms, capitalism increasingly ‘lifting’ itself from its material constraints, and ecological breakdown floating as an ambient “new normal”, life persists as meaning collapses; affect takes over as an axis around which reality is negotiated. The colloquial has embedded shorthand, catchall words with metadata to express the visceral, all-too sharp and pointed feeling of something being too real: “fr”, “real”, “chat/grok is this real?”. Everywhere, we grasp at attempts to affirm reality in a material way.Our cover girl, Bianca Censori, seems to sit at the center of questions around reality, projection and myth — contributing with a manifesto, she joins over 60 writers, artists and thinkers aboard the POSTPOSTPOST train.Vol. II is a centurial publication that decided not to wait another century. It sets a psychoanalytic reading of AI beside a MrBeast Turing test; Gaza-as-de_dust2 beside a tutorial on how to earn Thielbucks; Triple T battles Grok for V-Bucks beside a meditation on entropy and disappearance; vorarephilia beside the avant-garde's own obituary. Contemporary critique and brainrot theory, printed on the same paper, taken equally (un)seriously.Contributors include:Aaron Moulton, Aidan Walker, Alex Mentzel, Ali Talaat, Annja Neumann, Barbie on Acid, Beck Dawson, Bianca Censori, Biuro, Charles Weak, Charlie Robin Jones, Claire Marie Amaya, Dávid Varhegyi, dn.usa, Dominic England, Dylan Lackey, Dilara Fındıkoğlu, eiiws, Eleni Maragkou, Eliza Perraki, Elizaveta Federmesser, Firuza Huseynova, Günseli Yalcinkaya, GK01 (gruppokreativo01), Hesham Elsherif, Ian Bruner, Isabel Millar, Idil Galip, Jack Self, Jak Ritger, James Orlando, Jaya Brekke, Jerome Williams, Jeremy Tawedian, Jesse Damiani, Juline Hadaya, Karina Bush, Kat Kitay, Laylla AbuGharbieh, Maria Perevedentseva, Maxime Buono, Maya Chambers, Michael Meranze, Moike-Aurora Jade, Morgan Meredith, Muhammed Al Mubarak, Nada Mesh, Majeed Malhas and Nadine N. Sayegh, Nour Eldin Hussein, Nourhan Wahdan, Parham Ghalamdar, Romy Gad el Rab and Mhamad Safa, Sam Radford, Sara Marchisio, Sarah Chekfa, Shadeh Kavousian, Simon Gérard, Shumon Basar, Steve F. Anderson, Stephanie LaCava, Sui-Sien Donovan, Theo Meranze, Tiffany Lee, Tosia Leniarska, Victor Unwin, Will Harrison, Yasmin Alrabiei
