POSTCAPITALIST DESIRE:
the late Mark Fisher’s vision of “acid communism”, as sketched in his final lectures
Ruritania issue, 2019 | Issue 78 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- SPRING/SUMMER 2019 by Caroline Issa
- RIGHT TO ROAM: getting lost in the green belt. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- RICH PICKINGS: the magic of jewellery
- DESIGNER OF DREAMS: the enduring genius of Christian Dior
- NEW LOOK BURBERRY: get your teeth in! Photography by Annie Lai, fashion by Caroline Issa
- NEW WORK, OLD MASTER: Dries Van Noten excites and delights. Photography by Devin Blair, styling by Grace Joel
- BLIND DATES: all dressed up with nowhere to go. Photography by Annie Lai, styling by Grace Alexander
- ALL MADE UP: a vision of beauty by Chanel. Photography by Jesse Laitinen, make-up by Ninni Numela
- OUT OF THE BAG: the handbag goes hands-free. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- MATERIAL WORDS: the language of fashion. By Thea Bichard
- NEW DIRECTIONS: a new generation rips up the rule book. Photography by Jules Moskovtchenko, styling by Brydie Perkins
features
- EDITORIAL: the Ruritania issue
- IMAGINING THE COUNTRY: nationalism’s phantasmal landscapes. By Alistair Ian Blyth
- HOUSE ARREST: longing after live in the city. Photography by Alexander Coggin, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- GREEN AND UNPLEASANT LAND: has the left abandoned the English countryside to the forces of reaction? By Joe Kennedy
- BON VOYAGE: non-player characters on an island escape. Photography by JP Bonino, art direction and styling by Alice Ray
- ESCAPE FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE: the fantasy of the countryside as a liberating paradise holds an increasing allure for the precarious generations. By Lamorna Ash, photography by Robin Friend
- THE RETURN: village chic in Sheshanzhen. Photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Macci Leung
- ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT PEOPLE: the buildings where we keep the world. By Liam Young
- BIG SCHOOL: self-reliant servicemen and Maoist propaganda. By Guy Mackinnon-Little
- RADIO TANK: country music sells it’s soul. By Chris Reitz, illustration by Benjamin Filby
- FORTITUDE RANCH: survival capabilities and recreation opportunities. Photography by Torso Solutions, styling by Hamish Wirgman
- THE REPUBLIC: Mitchell Anderson presents the value of houses owned by the families of his artistic peers
- GREEN LABOUR: Labour’s recent electoral success is rooted in its visionary redistributive politics, but what do they offer to slow the impending climate crisis? By Kia Golsorkhi-Ainslie
- EXECUTIVE REALNESS: dressed for the role. Photography by Anthony Seklaoui, styling by Bobby Hook
- TEMPLE OF THE SCAPEGOAT: film-maker and philosopher Alexander Kluge in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
- COOL FACTOR: take the heat off. Photography by Chus Antón, styling by Alicia Padrón
- IN OLYMPOS: in the ruins of an ancient city, reclaimed by nature. By Kinza Shenn, photography by Alice Zoo
- BACK TO FRONT: don’t look at the camera. Photography by Sigurd Grünberger, styling by Simon Winkelmüller
- THE ROARING INSIDE HER: femininity, nature and horror. By Phillipa Snow
- DECOUPE: Eva Stenram interprets Anthony Vaccarello’s radical new cut at Saint Laurent
- MIRROR MIRROR by Christabel Stewart
talks
- OWEN HATHERLEY: “By contemporary standards, the housing programme under Brezhnev seems like an achievement.”
- NATASHA STAGG: “But then again, all fiction is autofiction, to some extent.”
- LARRY ACHIAMPONG: “I’m not saying one type of work is more important than the other, it’s just different ways of having a conversation.”
- JENNY MCHPHEE: “Ginzburg was never comfortable with the label of ‘feminist’, as I think she probably found it too limiting in scope.”
- ANDRE ACIMAN: “I started writing as a very clumsy poet, very committed to poetry.”
- JENNA SUTELA: “A lot of my recent work has been interfering with language.”
- SAMER SALAMEH: “I couldn’t make a traditional documentary to explain the situation.”
- JUNO MAC AND MOLLY SMITH: “The price of drugs under criminalisation is a factor in some people’s entry into sex work.”
- NICHOLAS DALY: “For me, Ruritania is really a distorted mirror image of Britain itself.”
