A place for the inner life and the world around it

Ways of seeing,
ways of becoming.

Essays, notes and letters on identity, choice, objects, places, culture—and the quiet structures that shape a life.

关于自我、选择、物件、地方与生活如何逐渐成形。

What remains
when a life changes?

当生活改变以后,什么会留下?

Not every beginning announces itself. Sometimes it is simply the moment we notice that our old arrangements no longer hold us.

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01 / A note from the editor

“I is both a person and a place: a way of returning to the self, and a point from which to meet the world.”

This editorial begins with questions rather than answers. It will grow through observation, conversation and the things we choose to make visible.

这里从问题开始,而不是答案。内容将在观察、对话,以及那些值得被看见的事物中慢慢生长。

02

The selves we choose to keep

我们选择留下的那些自我

03

A room changes when you begin to call it yours

当一个空间开始属于你

04

On beginning before everything is certain

在一切尚未确定以前开始

02 / Forms of attention

Notes

Brief observations, fragments and things worth returning to.

轻盈、即时、未必完整
Essays

Longer inquiries into the forces that shape a self and a life.

深入、展开、持续思考
Letters

Occasional dispatches, written closer and sent directly.

更近的声音,抵达你的收件箱

The I Index · Subscriber edition / 订阅者版本

A considered guide to what is shaping the world.

一份理解世界正在如何变化的跨领域编辑索引。

One cross-disciplinary briefing each week. One deeper dossier each month. Selected, read and connected for people who want to understand beyond a single field.

每周一期跨领域简报,每月一份深度专题。为希望超越单一领域理解世界的人,完成筛选、阅读与连接。

Weekly Index / 每周索引Monthly Dossiers / 月度专题Complete Archive / 完整档案
Explore The I Index / 了解订阅

Letters from I · Complimentary

A slower kind
of correspondence.

Receive new writing and occasional notes from the editorial. Sent only when there is something worth opening.

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