Caesura takes its name from the Latin caesūra, a cutting; in poetry, it names a pause within a line of verse. I interpret it as a way of thinking about change without treating it as disappearance, a little like the Japanese kire-tsuzuki, cut-continuity: a second anatomy that carries what came before instead of replacing it. This project is inspired by how lives, ideas, places, and relationships go on becoming themselves in that unsettled middle, and by the possibility that growth does its most interesting work there.
I'm Arun Nagore Jayaraman Shyam, an ALM candidate in International Relations at Harvard. I founded Caesura as a personal project for independent inquiry into politics, culture, and history, with a particular interest in what artificial intelligence may mean for all three.