A Specter Hangs Over the Hamptons Couch
Inside the Outsider Art fair
On perusing the obscene spectacle of the Outsider Art Fair, a communist declares: abolish the art market!
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Earth Ring
San Francisco, CA | USA
Since Jon stopped answering his door I’m digging to his house. I...
Faultlines
Johannesburg | South Africa
Dineo’s last image of the German was of him, wide-eyed and shouting, pulling the door of the van closed on a whole group of people.
Retro Shock
When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?
80s cyberpunk predicted the future. But today, can it escape its own past?
The Absence of the Future
At the Venice Biennale, architecture has no vision of the future but gadgets, gimmicks, and climate doom
The Venice Bienale this year was a vortex of oligarch-funded tech boosterism and empty spectacle. Kate Wagner breaks it down.
Atlas Dabbed
New York, NY | USA
Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.
From Issue 3
In the Domain of the Unknown
From death mask to CPR manikin, L'Inconnue de la Seine is a mythic symbol of our attempts to grapple with death - or reverse it.
A drowned Victorian teen, her medical manikin doppelganger, and their enduring entanglement with the question: “Can death be undone?”
Genesis
A short story
“But you’re still alive ain’t ya?” A story of North Carolina.
Great minds are not like ordinary people; theydo not wash socks or remember birthdays.They see clear through one aspect of the world, socks and all. The aspect furls and stretches like a catbaked in sunlight. Or molten glasspulled like hot caramel in cool stone hands. I have known three Great...
