This notion of the Internet absolutely pervading our physical, lived experience is, of course, terrifying—unless you’ve always dreamed of the Singularity. But it's also an opportunity. Where we used to think about intersections between the Web and real life, and so online and offline activities, we can now, rather, just think of the world. While we used to invoke the slogan Slow down the Internet, now we’re moving on to the more apt, if more comical, Slow down the world.

Mariam Ghani on the politics and poetics of International Art English. "If someone is unable or unwilling to explain an artwork in IAE, does that make the work illegible to the power structures of the art world, and therefore render it invisible to greater or lesser degree? Or is the real condition of legibility that the artwork must be explained in English, no matter what kind of English it is?"

Triple Canopy is pleased to announce the recipients of our fourth annual round of commissions, initiated with an open call for proposals on December 11, 2012, with a record number of over 400 submissions: Rosa Aiello, Shane Anderson, Bloopers, Anna Della Subin, Alan Greenspan, Irene Lusztig, Dan Phiffer, Matt Sheridan Smith, and Ada Smailbegovic.

We're pleased to announce the publication of our eighteenth issue, Active Rot, which includes Sara Greenberger Rafferty's meditation on televisual drama; Jibz Cameron and Hedia Maron's epic tale of dreams dashed by the Cartoon Network; B. Wurtz's invigoration of everyday objects; Martin Beck's study of American communes and their language; Peter Fend's plan for a global methane-powered economy; Boru O'Brien O'Connell's cannibalization of Gregory Bateson's metalogues.

For the past year, Triple Canopy's editors and designers have been planning an ambitious new online publishing platform. TC 3.0, as we're calling it, will not only revolutionize Triple Canopy’s work on the Web but forge meaningful connections between print publications and live programming, and so illuminate the entire sphere of Triple Canopy’s activities.

Foundational correspondence concerning Triple Canopy's maturation and grudging institutionalization. Excerpted from Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 2, designed by Project Projects and co-published by Sternberg Press, and available now at our online store.