"In issue N.37 Transfiguration, we confront a challenging truth: belief is not a path to transcendence, but a process of transfiguration—how matter and meaning are reshaped under economic, emotional, and historical pressures.

As summer 2025—amid war, political violence, and social fractures—we ask: what does our thirst for miracles reveal about the flames surrounding us? Stuck in the grip of capitalist scarcity and guilt, belief often becomes less a force for change and more a fragile survival mechanism.

This issue moves beyond ideology to explore shifts in consciousness and endurance. Our contributors' inquiries on how transformation emerges through persistence and refusal, and how community, memory, and survival can serve, not spectacle, as true forms of endurance. We consider how belief can become a practice of possibility and a tool for changing the world.

Read with us: what if belief, unbound from loyalty to power, can open cracks where something new arises?

With contributions by Octavia Abril, Sarnath Banerjee, Verónica Brands, Clara Brinkmann, Mya Berger, Julieta Colantonio and Mila Tirini, Clemente Ciarrocca and Yanne Horas, Annalee Davis & Spore Initiative, Barbara Debeuckleare and Mothers of Hebron, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Tracy Fuad, Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin, Rindon Johnson, Samuel Jay Sangjani Wills, Dalia Maini, Alessandro Y. Longo, Jota Mombaça, Ruth Patir, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Duygu Örs & Jas Wenzel, Lilo Ruminawi, Madlyn Sauer, Charles Sobbs, Eric Golo Stone, Meii Soh, Raqs Media Collective, Zoncy Heavenly, Claire Tancons, Cosima von Bonin, and Lea Kristin Würtenberger.