Acts of Departure is a textual diversion from initial inquiries set about by The Last Emporium, a project initiated by the engaged disappearance of eight vessels and a series of letters carried out of Hong Kong over the summer and autumn of 2022. Framed by the notion of the address, the epistolary becomes a way to trace various forms of movement—from persons to publics, from the affective to the economic, and from the habitual to now ravaged, geopolitical states of exception. The collection...
