Introduction

Peripheries cannot wear out, there is always something left. They spread from inside out and outside in. The second issue of Maska on the topic continues to explore these topoi and their potentiality, the remnant of what was left unaddressed, unthought, untouched, but is crucial, if not central. What we learn from these perspectives is that there is always a periphery to a periphery. A margin more marginal than the one we speak from; a way of addressing a problem that penetrates deeper through the surface of a known, established vocabulary. But we also learn that it is not about competing over who is more peripheral, but about what the means of solidarity are; not aiming to speak in someone’s name, but learning from each other so that we can work on our own limits and make the fixed boundaries between centers and peripheries more porous.