We Are Here, but Is It Now?: The Submarine Horizons of Contemporaneity (Contemporary Condition)

We seem to know more about far-away galaxies than we do about the bottom of our oceans. This can also be said about our relationship to the future and the contemporary, where the distant future can seem more familiar than the deep present. When searching for the present, we must ask how to dive in without drowning in todays currents. When do we surface, ride the current, or even stay afloat? These are questions that Raqs Media Collective asks in this series on contemporaneity, guided by a motley collection of figures lost and found in the turbulence of their practice.