// context

it goes without saying that we’re living in rather complex times. but simply stating this doesn’t adequately express the intensity at which complexity is accelerating and affecting life today. from the familiar affects of globalism and capitalism, to more recent ones like the ‘internet of things’, big data, and quantum technology, this rapid increase of complexity is overwhelming and induces existential phenomena from dysphoria to displacement, to apathy and FOMO. the world has gotten too big too fast, and at an unsustainable rate. the speed and intensity of this growing complexity is such that ‘we’/humanity have not had time to adjust nor adapt to the ever-evolving complex situations we find ourselves in; we don’t have the adequate tools, models or paradigms by which we could understand whatever brave new world we’re transitioning into. it’s no longer sustainable to understand the world in antiquated binary notions, let alone in terms of humanism (the enlightenment ethos of ‘man as the measure of all things’), as the natural environment can attest to (e.g. climate change). it is against this background, this historical context, and within this liminal space that mxdflz operates, to highlight how [mxd] subjects are creating new norms and modeling new ways of living for the people of tomorrow who exist in the today, but are still trapped within the confines of the past. [mxd] subjects are responding to and thriving despite the overwhelming challenges that intense-complexity presents.

[mxd] subjects are transforming the way we understand how life can be lived today. these STORIES, ART AND IDEAS are an extension of the complex histories and memories of [mxd] subjects.

Mxdflz collaborates with artists and thinkers to explore the non-binary phenomena expressed by [mxd] subjects.

being[mxd]– a person who does not identify with monological categories, or terms of pejorative difference. [mxd] subjects are those whose sense of self is not indexed to any organizing nor hierarchical principles. they resist the policing technologies of identification, they elude the sciences of classification. there’s no pigeonholing them.

being[mxd] is not an identity position; rather, it is the embodied expression of  those who are in perpetual flows and shifts between a multiplicity of personas, positions, and points of interconnection. what [mxd] subjects do, how they live, will almost always certainly be an extension of the complex history, relations, and memories that they embody.

[ est. 2018 ]

// about us: we’re creatives with professional backgrounds in writing, film, television, and photography. we also have academic backgrounds in philosophy, psychoanalysis, race and gender studies that enrich and empower our creative endeavors. we've also been fortunate to have traveled the world with our work. our experience navigating through a diversity of different cultural contexts, whether foreign or familiar, have also shaped our creative energies.

// on capital-ization. you may have noticed we don’t do it. it’s a constant reminder for us as we write that we’re not doing this for the sake of capital. but capitalism aside, the notion that there are some words more important than others, that require special signification, is not a structural norm we care to reproduce– written language not only has a psychologizing affect, but a normalizing one. of course, we rely on language, punctuation and grammatical rules in general to communicate with one another clearly. that said, we do not find capitalization necessary, nor a part of something we care to communicate in our writing, unless at specific request of those we collaborate with.

// use of brackets with [mxd]. similar to our explanation for why we don’t capitalize letters, the brackets serve as a reminder that ‘mxd’ as a signifier is not something that can be reducible to, nor represented by, a single word. in phenomenology, ‘bracketing’ refers to the suspension of one’s preconceptions of the world in order to analyze experience without bias. by bracketing [mxd] it is a constant reminder to us that it is a concept that in its essence is fluid and in constant motion and re-negotiation.