5.5×11″

151 pages

Rituals are deeply human constructs, shaping meaning, order, and identity. Some emerge from necessity, others persist long after their original purpose fades—appearing, from the outside, as theatrical, contradictory, even absurd. This issue explores the tension between internal logic and external perception: a daughter raised within her father’s conspiratorial rituals; computer overclockers transforming function into obsessive craft; presidential golf as choreographed performance of power; the ritualised spectatorship of digital outrage and catastrophe. Each example reveals how belief, power, and performance intertwine.

We invite readers to observe with curiosity, to reflect on their own ritualised behaviours, and to consider what becomes visible when the familiar is held up for examination.