‘Sometimes kismet happens.” So wrote Stephanie Meyer in New Moon – an author who has made millions from books in which unlikely coincidences draw people together on a fateful path. Our Word of the Week from AUM PR is a word used in Turkish, Urdu or Hindi and Arabic. Its more usual pronounciation is kismat, meaning fate or destiny. It’s also the name of a robot at an MIT research laboratory which is used to demonstrate simulated emotion – and make of that what you will.
The Future Feminist Archives (FFA) has been a year-long project across New South Wales during 2015-2016. Artist Leonie Lane, the catalogue coordinator at Southern…