We publish visual art and writing that bend time and genre and perspective, blur waking and dreaming life, find sublimity and absurdity in the everyday, magnify the senses, multiply and distort the possibilities of narrative, and interrogate power by breaking form.

The first psychedelic era was a time of radical artistic innovation, and yet, in the popular imagination, "psychedelia" refers to little more than Day-Glo mandalas and contorted mushrooms—a narrow corridor. Elastic is interested in taking the walls down. Or, rather, Elastic is interested in demonstrating that the walls were never really there. These pages conjure a truly expansive vision of psychedelic culture, bringing together a vast body of contemporary psychedelic work and paying tribute to an overlooked archive. 

Our first volume, the Dying Issue, is a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and a Society of Publication Designers award (Design, Independent Publishing, Entire Issue category).

Featuring: Kwaku Osei Owusu Achim, 'Pemi Aguda, Roland Ayers, Gabrielle Bates, Joanna Blémont, Alic Brock, CAConrad, Eric Timothy Carlson, Gina Chung, Mimosa Echard, Enigmatriz, Fernando A. Flores, Devra Fox, Gabriel Gabriel Garble, Sasha Gordon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Daisy Hildyard, Key Hiraga, Vivian Hu, Allegra Hyde, David Jien, Jess Johnson, Bhanu Kapil, Chantal Khoury, Haerri Kim, Akil Kumarasamy, Annie Lapin, Dorothea Lasky, Jennifer Latour, Lulu Lin, Kelly Link, Patricia Lockwood, Jesse Mockrin, Lara Mimosa Montes, Moonassi, Mooovooom, Mark Mulroney, Sawako Nakayasu, Josèfa Ntjam, Mu Pan, Kimberly King Parsons, Female Pentimento, Marigold Santos, Daylen Seu, Avigayl Sharp, Brandon Shimoda, Beppe Stasi, Barbara Takenaga, Morgan Thomas, Elissa Washuta, Colin Winnette, Qualeasha Wood, Sara Deniz Akant, Hala Alyan, Aimee Bender, Somnath Bhatt, Venita Blackburn, Melissa Broder, Rita Bullwinkel, K-Ming Chang, Judy Chicago, Anne de Marcken, Steven Dunn, Steven Duong, Edie Fake, Firpal, Sasha Fletcher, Lola Gil, Johanna Hedva, Henry Hoke, Samantha Hunt, Maren Jeleff, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Sawako Kabuki, Miki Kim, Rae Klein, Rebecca Lee, Darian Longmire, Isle McElroy, Wardell Milan, Danylo Movchan, Benoît Paillé, Matthew Palladino, Helen Phillips, Klaus Pichler, Gautam Roy, Eddie Ruscha, Daniel Saldaña París transl. by Christina MacSweeney, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Margie Sarsfield, sam sax, Devan Shimoyama, Dadu Shin, Jia Sung, Shruti Swamy, Keiichi Tanaami, Armando Veve, Nadia Waheed, Sam Weber, Daisuke Yokota