In an Emergency Break the Glass

“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.”

—WS Yeats, “The Second Coming”

When the editorial board considered the 487 submissions we received for ROOM 10.26, themes of taking action and acknowledging responsibility rose to the top with a screaming pitch. And nowhere was this more apparent than in the overwhelming number of contributions which came to us from India, likely a direct result of the active engagement of ROOM’s new Asian Steering Committee. Nestled at the heart of this issue are seven essays written from the front lines of the Cockroach protest movement. Their very presence signifies the place ROOM has come to as we mark the end of our tenth year of analytic action. From India to Ecuador, from China to Ukraine, from Brazil to the US, each author in ROOM 10.26 is demanding that we pay attention and find the courage to make change happen now.