We love working with former collaborators and meeting new ones. Meet the amazing people behind our new short film Routes that takes us on a journey along the paths of insects as they retrace routes that go far beyond human notions of boundaries.
You can watch it here: youtu.be/gLZIAdUsVlM
A gorgeous new film on Dark 'n' Light, scripted and narrated by Yuvan Aves, and created by Gourav Ogale and Annette Jacob.
Watch Routes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZI...
Listen to the rest of this fascinating conversation on The Subverse podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/0KDi...
Have you listened to Joaquin Ezcurra on The Subverse podcast yet?
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Joaquin Ezcurra tells us what listeners can expect to hear in his conversation with Susan Mathews, host of The Subverse podcast.
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In the final episode of the season, host Susan Mathews speaks to Antone Martinho-Truswell Operations Manager at the Sydney Policy Lab, and Research Associate at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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In a new episode of The Subverse Susan Mathews speaks with
AntoneMartinho-Truswell, a behavioural ecologist, about the evolutionary advantages of flight, why birds live longer than mammals, and evolving out of the ‘good-enough’ way of living.
Listen here: darknlight.com/podcast/the-...
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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"Routes aren’t created because of places, but rather places emerge from routes that are taken again and again."
A new short film narrated by Yuvan Aves, made by Gourav Ogale and Annette Jacob for Dark 'n' Light.
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"Reflection is not only what appears on a surface; it is about gathering context—history, weather, taste, effort, opinions, the smells and sounds that surround an act—and holding them together long enough to make meaning." Tasneem Khan
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"At its heart, Arcx has always been a passion project. A meeting of nerds, if you will. For all that we discussed serious topics, there was a real joy to these conversations."
@anjalialappat.bsky.social reflects on four seasons of Arcx podcast:https://darknlight.com/blog/a-new-arcx/
"I am driven by infinite curiosity and a refusal to accept the existence of borders, crystallised knowledge or geographies, all of which are imaginary constructs."
An interview with writer and teacher Claudia Aboaf: darknlight.com/projects/int...
In a new short film, naturalist and author Yuvan Aves takes us on a journey along the paths of honeybees, butterflies amd aphids as they remember and retrace routes that go beyond human notions of roads and boundaries.
Created by Gaurav Ogale and Annette Jacob.
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Claudia Aboaf's latest book, Trilogía del agua (2024), combines three of her previous novels: Pichonas (2014), The King of Water (2016), and The Eye and the Flower (2019).
Winnu D interviews her for Dark 'n' Light here:
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Claudia Aboaf, writer and teacher, speaks to Winnu D about the importance of socialising the struggle, paying attention to nature, moving away from human characters and the power of writing and fiction.
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"Given the mercurial times we live in, it’s unsurprising that South Asia’s speculative and science fiction scene is slowly but surely growing."
Anjali Alappat, host of Arcx podcast writes darknlight.com/blog/a-new-a...
Susan and Joaquin speak about the activities and trajectory of Aerocene, its record-breaking flights, and the need to move away from colonial capitalist outlooks to a more connected and agential way of life.
More on the episode here: darknlight.com/podcast/the-...
In the fourth episode of the season, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Joaquin Ezcurra, a key member of Aerocene, the global arts-activist community initiated by Tomás Saraceno.
Listen here:
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Bandigoat release party. Saturday Oct 25 Kannadi cupboard, Tambaram. Image shows a goat-rat with shades and a disco ball
Kuzhali Manickavel, Sridya Tadepalli, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan in conversation with Anjali Alappat
Jackolanterns
Chennai! Come to our Bandigoat book launch / pumpkin carving party on Saturday Oct 25th!
In a new blog post, Anjali Alappat, the host of Arcx, reflects on four seasons of in-depth conversations with some of South Asia’s best known speculative fiction authors, the SFF landscape in the region, and where the podcast goes from here.
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Art by Adrija Ghosh.
Mădălina Diaconu is a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria and author of Aesthetics of Weather (2024).
She's Susan Mathew's guest on The Subverse!
More from her here: darknlight.com/podcast/the-...
"Reflection is not only what appears on a surface; it is about gathering context—history, weather, taste, effort, opinions, the smells and sounds that surround an act—and holding them together long enough to make meaning."
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A double bill from The Subverse!
Two back-to-back episodes featuring Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher and author of Aesthetics of Weather.
Listen to them here: darknlight.com/podcast/the-...
Join the latest episode of The Subverse podcast with your thermic body and enjoy the fleecy, cloudy edges of this conversation with Mădălina Diaconu.
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Mădălina Diaconu, is a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria and author of Aesthetics of Weather (2024).
She's on The Subverse podcast talking about environmental and urban aesthetics and phenomenology of perception.
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We continue the conversation with Mădălina Diaconu. She speaks about tornadoes, the limitations of equating materiality with solidity, the ideas of landscape and landscapability and the concept of a trace and what happens when we do not control what we leave behind.
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A new episode of The Subverse features Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria who works on environmental aesthetics, urban aesthetics and phenomenology of perception.
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A stunning Time & Tide essay by Tasneem Khan is here!
Read 'MaraTime: Time as Reflection & Refraction' here: darknlight.com/projects/per...
A new Time and Tide essay is here.
Read 'MaraTime: Time as Reflection & Refraction' by Tasneem Khan here: darknlight.com/projects/per...
