EAST 12:1

The cover features Korean artist U-Ram Choe's work Custos Cavum. Like his other works, Custos Cavum is not just a moving sculpture but almost a living entity. Custos Cavum means something like "guardian of the hole," and inspired by Choe's blurring of animate and inanimate, we've chosen it for this issue.

According to Choe, "Once upon a time, there were two worlds...connected to each other through a number of small holes, as if the worlds were breathing through these holes. However, the holes had a tendency to close up, so there were guardians next to each one to keep them open." Given our ambition to make STS a portal connecting the social and the natural worlds, aren't we STS scholars all in a sence Custos Cavum?

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