Fragility

This editorial brings together lines from all of the contributions to this double issue of JAWS , addressing the textures of fragility and its potential to mobilize thinking across intersecting crises. How can we continue to make within structures that are unsound? What happens when we settle our attention on people, materials and ideas that are prone to breakage or leakage or bruising or erosion? And how do we respond to fragilities that are harmful? Looking to fragility as a space marked by gaps and ruptures and seams, the editors reflect on what it means to work and live precariously, and what alternatives might emerge from the disarray.