Spring 2026

A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplaceEssays, blogs, and other prose: No as a Noticeboard, Sara Ahmed A no to an institution can be expressed through the withdrawal of labour from it. When you leave because of a complaint, you don’t just leave the problem behind. You leave a record of confronting that problem, which can be another kind of legacy although one that often has to be unburied by those who come after. Leaving also meant I was freer to express myself. And that I had left allowed other people to be freer to share with me what happened to them when they complained. Hence a no can be loosening; when one no comes out, others follow. Older Than Empires, As Deep As Death, Grace Benfell They Don't See You as a Person, Peter Hunt Szpytek Towards a Critical Commons, Chris Lawrence Play That Funky Music White Girl, Nicanor Gordon We Are All Becoming More Thick, Jake Steinberg notes dump 2026, Stephen Gillmurphy sometimes it feels like videogames as a medium exist as a…