peripheral
forms
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This is a call.
From all of us to all of us.
What is slopulism? peripheral forms is calling it the politics of affect without praxis. Endless circulation as policy. Humans were producing slop before generative AI made it cheap. The mechanism is older than the tool: when affect becomes the site of politics rather than a resource for it, quality stops mattering. Everything flattens into content.
peripheral forms is a collective experiment in making things that create dimples across the flatness. A swarm. A score for actions that haven't been written yet.
Shout out to Fall of Freedom, a nationwide effort to organize the arts into something. We are in this also.
peripheral forms is looking for people who make work across mediums, across networks, across physical space. People who think about governance as a creative problem. People who can hold the tension between tool and market, between speed and attention, between individual practice and collective form. People who are building something that resists the flattening by making things that are too dense to circulate without friction.
This is not just a space to join. It's a space that supports what you're making. Bring a project, a question, a provocation. The collective exists to realize work that can't be made alone.
We want you in the conversation.
To Apply
Write your position. What does aesthetic resistance mean right now in your practice? 500 words or less.
Share your work. One link. Whatever form it takes.
Describe the project that you would like this space to support and realize.
Deadline: April 21, 2026
Enter the space →The process begins now.
