CHTHONIC is a multimodal platform that explores the grounds, both timeless and emergent, of counterhegemonic production of space.
CHTHONIC begins with an editorial project on intensifying re-materializations of the worlds we inhabit. It summons perceptions and records from multiple locations within post-colonial, post-socialist, and post-conflict terrains, while searching for signals of post-digital and post-capitalist futures in particular countercultural practices and positions. By collating multifarious documents of site-specific dynamics, it listens for resonances below and between seemingly unrelated histories and horizons. The framework that holds them together is capsulized in the titular χθών [khthṓn], interpreted as an interlinked matrix of fecund underworlds that are there to revisit, reconsider, reconstruct, reinhabit, and repossess.
CHTHONIC is a polyscopic device, a roving detector, a divination spread, a thickening, a web-based discursive form insisting on the body, and a return to the primitive trust in networked perception.