THE MATRIX:
N.H Pritchard’s “sound poems” bypass discursive meaning in pursuit of the “transreal”
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front
- HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO by Masoud Golsorkhi
- SPRING/SUMMER 2021 by Caroline Issa
- BOUNCE INTO SPRING: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- GRIFF: photography by Ulrike Rindermann, text and styling by Caroline Issa
- SET, GO: photography by Guen Fiore, styling by Riccarado Linarello
- TIME AND EMOTION: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
features
- EDITORIAL: the Pressure issue
- FLASH FICTION by Max Porter
- TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: the binding fictions of deadlines are pacts against the splintering of reality, which might explain why we seem to keep missing them of late. By Lauren Oyler
- MINDS RISING, SPIRITS TUNING: at the outset of a new age of cognitive capitalism, the 13th edition of the Gwangju Biennale moves beyond the false universalisms of Western modernity to ask after the true nature of intelligence
- SELF-ASSEMBLY: un-discovering the individual. By Daisy Hildyard
- EXFLORA: photography by Jean-Vincent Simonet, Styling by Salomé Poloudenny
- JILL MAGID in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
- OUT OF SYNC, IN THEIR OWN TIME: text by Caroline Issa, photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
- UK76: Victor Burgin’s seminal investigation of image and text
- DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE: by accident or design, neoliberalism has throttled the arts without needing to resort to outright censorship. By Juliet Jacques
- ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PRESENT: photography by Jules Moskovtchenko, styling by Hamish Wirgman
- DOOMSDAY'S DAYBREAK: as our understanding of our place within the cosmos has expanded, so too have the ethical demands placed upon us. By Thomas Moynihan
- EVERYDAY ROMANCE: photography by Chus & Greg, styling by Patricia Villirillo
- THE OTHER MOTHER: the idealised fiction of the hard-working immigrant. By Xiaowei Wang
- TIDE SALON traces our contemporary vocablurary of migration and belonging to histories of travel, trade, and colonialism in the early modern world
- STUDIO CIAO: photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Elisa Voto
- THE END OF LIBERALISM: the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences. By Byung-Chul Han
- INFLATIONARY PRESSURES: photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Liu Xiao
- BINAURAL BEATBOX: digital drugs and the strange history of binaural beats. Text by Guy Mackinnon-Little, illustration by Benjamin Filby
talk
- CARLO ROVELLI: “I think that the idea of certainty is one of the most devastating and useless ideas ever produced in the history of culture”
- GEORGE SAUNDERS: “The story is anything that keeps you reading”
- KATHERINE ANGEL: “Everyone is the victim of a world where sex is a resource that some people have to give and that some people have to extract”
- ADANIA SHIBLI: “I think of language not as a medium, but as an entity, an existence – and a witch”
- SALIM AZZAM: “We have this energy as Lebanese people; we’re survivors”
- EMILY SEGAL: “How do you ever account for the differential of the time to write versus the life that’s being written about?”
- MATT KENNARD: “Balance of forces-wise, the left is nowhere”
- FERNANDA MELCHOR: “That’s how misogyny works – by making women believe in it, too”
- DEFNE AYAS AND NATASHA GINWALA: “There’s a lot to think about in terms of the great disembodiment of our times”
- NATASHA LENNARD: “The determinations of racial capitalism have left little ambiguity as to who gets forced to work in perilous proximity and left without care to die”
