10/04/2026
We rarely share anything that is not strictly connected to our books and workshops. We have always believed that doing the work matters more than talking about it or displaying it. Today, however, marks an exception because it is necessary to restate the centrality of cultural work.
We want to express our gratitude to the bookshop that has, more than any other, approached our work with rare respect: Bungee Space in New York.
Shisi and her colleagues embody a diasporic commitment to culture at a moment when cultural life—across the United States and in many other regimes, whether openly declared or discreetly maintained—is being flattened or erased by censorship. In such a climate, the simple act of sustaining a space for knowledge becomes a form of rebellion. Not a loud or riotous rebellion, but a quiet insistence for something: for the possibility of independent thought, for the right to form one’s own judgement, for the slow and demanding work of becoming an individual.
In a city as unruly as New York—where culture is tolerated only when it can be monetised—Bungee Space stands out as a counter‑current. It is not simply a shop; it is a portrait of an inner world, a place where books, objects, and conversations remind us that knowledge, in all the forms it can take, is what allows a person to think independently and critically about reality. In times of deep cultural flatness, this is perhaps the only rebellion left.
Visit Bungee on the Bowery, purchase from their website, and support the local bookstores that keep cultural life alive.
For the love of books,
Shibboleth
