In Short, Future Now

The artist and writer Jason Wee’s latest volume of poetry claims the imaginative terrain of Asia as one of flooded ruins and mobile islands, and as times of repair and self-interrogation. Taking cues from renga and haiku forms, In Short, Future Now is a single poetic sequence where Asia appears as an archive of the future, one always already at the cusp of arrival. This is Asia as an event, a post-authoritarian territory, a body in the aftermath of new pathologies and surveillances, a demand, a Fermi question, a wilder post-super-future Asia.