Stefan Kafidov

Emissaries

The integrity and strengths of an online movement are celebrated when someone represents and embodies the movement as a speaker, only then giving it a temporary physical form, and to be such an emissary is the greatest honor one can be granted. [...] The authority of a digital cult truly lacks centralized carriers and thus guards itself against dissolution through constant information flows, abandoning the stillborn father figure in favor of the ever-potential emissary.

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Stefan Kafidov

Stefan Kafidov was born in Moscow in 2002 and moved to Slovenia in 2016. They have been interested in science fiction ever since gaining sentience. Their work has been published in the journals Razpotja and Borec. They briefly worked for Radio Študent and the Faust collective, and remain active in Kult.co, a cultural studies student association.