Issue 71 · 2026
orbitaljournal
Essays on space, mind, science, and the future. Bilingual.
- 01 When Consciousness Loses Its Function Sunlight filters through the wooden window frame, illuminating dust motes to create a steady strip of light falling on the bed.
- 02 When the Algorithm Breaks Its Own Laws In the ancient silence of stones, a wave rises from the depths of the human mind. The millennia-old dance of black and white on the Go board no longer springs…
- 03 The Last Human Watches the Planetary Construction A blue blanket lies silently over the red desert, each wave breaking on the shore with the same calm, the sand retaining its warmth as if in a machine's dream.…
- 04 Is Chasing Pleasure a Good Life? Sunday evening. You've turned off the lights and are sitting in the living room. Your face glows under the phone screen's tomb-like illumination.
- 05 Remembering as We Return to Earth: The Necropolitics of the Final Gaze The light seeping through the gap in the curtains, once just a stain on the hospital room floor, has now become the line of time counting down.
- 06 The Thing That Tears the Silence: Body and Mourning in the Evolution of Music When midnight descends with its full weight upon us, a mother’s lullaby, sung while cradling her child, pierces the silence.
- 07 The Unidentifiable Sky: A Moment at the Edge of Perception Beneath the sun shimmering on gentle waves, the sky stands before us as an enigma. A tremor on the radar screen, the trace it leaves behind—a perfect instance…
- 08 What Does the Light of the First Stars Say to the Present? When we gaze at the sky, we are caught in a delusion that fades into the echo of a deep silence. The light our eyes perceive arrives from the depths of a past…
- 09 How Does a Civilization Reclaim Its Own Artifact? Think of a child launching a handmade boat into the water. At first, they believe they can call it back, but as the current carries it away, that possibility…
- 10 Lost Attention in the Digital Age The subway car is in motion. A dark tunnel rushes by the window. A man sits with an open book in his right hand and his left hand in his pocket.
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