The Poor, Grand Capital, and Empire on Edge: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

world on edge.Or several worlds, depending on decisions, cuts to be made, concerning existence.A question?Times between thought and sign transpire rapidly, overcoming-like machine gun fire --starting notions.Calling for the work to be done.Outdone by "what is happening."Call it the world or events, if that language does not bind, restrict, or interfere.Noting-following our first critical note, "The Translator's (In)visibility in Julio Cortzar's 'Letter to a Young Lady in Paris', " one of several works coauthored and contributed by Bilal Hamamra, this time with Asala Mayaleh, also working here and now in the West Bank-that any translation, expression, gesture is not the same as what it is about, is (it might be said) impossible.Knowing that what is impossible becomes possible, often by the efforts of youth, the untired, the yet-to-be-exhausted.The political ontologies of visibility and invisibility, the powers, good or ill, of ontologies, conceptions and frameworks, infra and superstructures, introduce themselves.Time to get the work out, to let voices speak their words before-interruption, cessation, blockage, death.Thank you for the urgency in knowing this is always.Where is most pressing?What are the intense tendencies?Only little time for introducing, advertising, commenting, or jumping on the back of others' work, but this is always the case.The urgent timely untimely.What?The unthemed theme: the world, a world of and for the poor, on edge, teetering on edges: proliferating, spreading edges, transforming, revolving. MainThinking revolutionary tendencies and the coincidence of revolution and time, we cannot do and now we must do without Antonio Negri.I never met you in person, Toni, but I have lived with your thoughts and desires since I began to think.In mourning to carry the spirit, to live with ghosts in preparation for better worlds.Preparing for future hauntological work, from South Africa by way of Fazil Moradi, let us phrase it with Jacques Derrida's voice