Jaffer Kolb

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Cara Adams |Forrest Gander |Jaffer Kolb

In a time defined by humankind’s deranging impact on the environment, a lively scientific debate continues among stratigraphers as to whether we have left the Holocene for the Anthropocene—a term the Nobel-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen hoped would serve as “a warning to the world.” In her ambitious and wide-ranging lyric essay collection The Age of Loneliness, Laura Marris notes there is “another name circulating among artists and environmentalists,” one proposed by the influential...

Aug 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Jaffer Kolb

There are many people in the United States who are, to put it generously, naïve—if not willfully in denial—about US colonialism, past and present. The United States officially colonized the Philippines for the first half of the twentieth century, but in the words of Manila-based artist Cian Dayrit, “Hollywood never really left” the archipelago, which still grapples with the lasting impact of US military expansion and exploitative economic policy.

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Jasmine Liu |Jaffer Kolb

In his latest film, Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi steadies his eye on a fictional village surrounded by forests several hours from Tokyo. The incursion of a glamping developer—Playmode—threatens to disturb the local community.