Shifter 18: Intention

Shifter is a topical magazine that was founded in 2004 and is co-edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Matthew Metzger. The magazine strives to create a platform that remains thematically relevant to contemporary issues while remaining malleable and responsive in its form and activities. The magazine represents a diversity of positions and backgrounds in its contributors and aims to illuminate and broaden understanding of the intersections between contemporary artistic, political and philosophical issues.

Originally conceived by Premnath as an online magazine in order to create an inter-continential “commons,” Shifter introduced its first print version with issue 10 (Issues 1-9 are also available in print now). Issues 11-16 were each co-edited by colleagues and collaborators including Abhishek Hazra