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Fräulein Issue 30

Digital culture, the climate crisis and the Corona pandemic have changed the way we live as well as the way we perceive each other as individuals and as a community. How will we travel, love, eat, learn, raise the next generation, prepare for the future, let alone communicate with each other? How can there be progress when everything seems to be standing still?

Sometimes, the future can’t be imagined in the present. We have to look at the past, refresh our take on it, our perception, find the new in the old, and then, from there, take a leap of faith forward.

This issue of Fräulein wants to explore what kind of past ways of living and thinking have re-emerged in our times. We want to understand if there is a revolutionary potential that comes from tradition, long-gone culture and practice in art, music, fashion, economy or society.

Is the urban allotment garden, now in the hands of ex-pats, hipsters and young families,  the communal fantasy of tomorrow? Will we find a way of teaching our kids in a more informal and open-minded way by looking at utopian schools like the Bauhaus and its predecessors? Is the family, however it may be understood, the only functioning social system that will care for our old in a rapidly aging society? Do we need to tell each other stories again to overcome individualistic isolation and create a new narrative for a collective way of life? Is the latter, the collective vs. the individual, the only mode to address the complexity of our times?

Unsilencing: The Colonialism Issue

Issue #9

How does colonialism still affect Europe, and the world, today?

From tumbling statues in India and Britain, via Greenland's history as a Danish colony, to changing lenses in the way we look at Iraqi marshes—this magazine is different. We’re facilitating an inclusive conversation about a difficult subject.

Buy the issue and dive deep into the multiplicity of histories that got us here.

Global challenge #8: Conflict

War Games

War has always been an essential tool of statecraft and empire building — a necessary means to acquire natural and human resources and expand territory. As a result, humanity is extremely adept at making excuses for it, using simple and effective narratives as an incitement to take up arms and lay down lives. But what use are these old tricks in a progressively globalised world, in which trade, travel and technology connect us more than ever before? War, what is it good for?

Dummy N° 69

Vergangenheit

Dieses DUMMY will kein DUMMY Epoche sein, historische Geschichten publizieren wir ja auch sonst ganz gern. Diesmal wollten wir Reportagen aus dem Hier und Jetzt sammeln, in denen die Geschichte eine große Rolle spielt. Denn das Wissen, wie wir zu dem wurden, was wir sind, ist unabdingbar für die Zukunft einer Gesellschaft. Und übrigens kommen wir um den Blick auf das Gewesene schon physikalisch nicht umhin. Weil das Licht, das die Bilder in unsere Linse transportiert, ein wenig Zeit braucht, schauen wir permanent in die Vergangenheit. Nutzen wir das doch.

Issue 03 - Resilience

In the new issue of Point.51, we bring together stories of untold courage and endurance from across Europe. Printed over 136 pages with 102 images, we follow the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances: stories of adversity and hardship in challenging times, but ultimately of strength, survival, and hope.

“Perfect reading for right now” – Magalleria

• Rafael Bastido de los Santos has a master’s degree and speaks excellent English, but he couldn’t find one stable job – so he worked three part-time. Like many young Spaniards, he faces a choice between life at home and more attractive career opportunities abroad.

• Emma Ringqvist sailed the Atlantic Ocean alone for nine months, including sixty-seven days where she was completely out of reach of both land and people. It was the purest experience of loneliness.

• Irish millennial writers are a hot literary trend. But Lucy Sweeney Byrne – who doesn’t read reviews – is different, transcending the line between fact and fiction as she records the highs and lows of young women travelling a pre-corona world, in search of self.

• There are 800,000 informal and unpaid caregivers in Portugal, but their work is largely hidden and their stories untold. Photographer Teresa Nunes’ mother is one of them.

• When Monique Jackson was told she “almost certainly” had COVID-19, she expected to be sick for a couple of weeks. Now “long-haulers” – and a growing body of research – are beginning to reveal an unexplained part of the pandemic.

• In the mountains of northern Albania, the “shepherd’s life” is little-known – and a long way from the romanticised ideal.

• Kristina Sergeeva visits the formerly “closed” and classified secret Russian city her grandparents were recruited to, where residents once found solace and security in luxurious isolation from the outside world.

• For school leavers in England, “lockdown” cut short one of the most formative experiences of their lives. Serena Brown meets five young women from West London who talk about the challenges of their final year.
  
  
  
• German veterans of Kosovo and Afghanistan who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder often feel isolated from a society where the experience of war is considered a “taboo” subject. 

212 Magazine - Issue 10

Future Shock, Autumn/Winter 2020

We’re delighted to present our TENTH issue, ‘Future Shock’, for Autumn/Winter 2020. We borrowed the theme for our tenth issue from the title of the book penned by futurist writer Alvin Toffler in 1970, in which he claims that ‘the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order’. Summing up the term ‘Future Shock’ in a 1973 Alex Grasshoff documentary of the same name, narrator Orson Welles explains:

‘Future Shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time; a feeling that nothing is permanent anymore; it’s the reaction to changes that happen so fast that we can’t absorb them, it’s the premature arrival of the future. For those who are unprepared its effects can be pretty devastating.’

We were never going to be prepared, but it seems as though, as of 2020, we’re embarking on our journey into the future defeated. We devoted this issue to understanding, seeing and discussing the effects, triggers and aftermath of this shock. Without giving up on our dreams, we set our sights on topics we can’t ignore. On the cover: The Screen Door, by Cig Harvey

ISSUE X INCLUDES;

INTERVIEWS with

SIMON STÅLENHAG and  HUSSEIN CHALAYAN,

FASHION STORIES by  GWEN TRANNOY and  MARC HIBBERT,

PHOTO ESSAYS  by

CLEMENS ASCHER, MANDY BARKER, VINCENT FOURNIER,
CIG HARVEY, KAI LÖFFELBEIN,

and

ARTIST PORTFOLIO  of  EMMA LARSSON,

SHORT STORY  by  TOMRIS UYAR – ‘THE FUTURE IS A MAYBE’,

A PROSE  by  SELİN GÜREL  – UNSUBTITLED 2020,

AN ESSAY  by  MARCOS LUTYENS – WORLD IN FLUX.

The Climate Issue

Issue #8

There is no magic cure to the climate crisis. But there are some pretty good ideas out there. In our 8th issue, storytellers from all over Europe give their take on the issues at hand, and their ideas to solve this thing.

We visit a sinking village, find out more about the carbon footprint of the Internet, and make a case for wonky veggies. We tackle the fast in fast fashion and find out how to save a buck by buying green energy on the live market.

Real Review 10 – NEW RENAISSANCE

Pope Francis
Ekow Eshun
Aria Dean
Stephen Shore
Issy Wood
Huw Lemmey
Traum Inc.
Anna Blessmann
Rebecca Sharp
Brady Ng
Hera Chan
Pekeri Ruska
Peer Illner
A & R. bin Shabib
Adjustments Agency
Ben Cullen Williams
Charlie Robin Jones
Jack Self
Michel de Montaigne
WEB Bois

We can't go back, but we don't want to. Nor can we go on like this much longer. What will emerge from such a transitional phase, when the civic body is so lacking in health (physical, moral, political and economic)?

The Renaissance was not an end in itself, but a bridge between two paradigms (feudalism and modernity). It was a cultural movement that diverted history by rediscovering lost pasts. Today, we do not need newness to cut short capitalist realism, to restore a degraded nature, to achieve greater equality. We have everything necessary for change. We only need the will.

INSIDE REAL REVIEW 10

What is a renaissance? We interview His Holiness Pope Francis on the commodification of our souls. Writer EKOW ESHUN reviews WEB BOIS' double consciousness. Curator ARIA DEAN reviews FUTURE's Mask Off and Black excellence. Photographer STEPHEN SHORE, in conversation with JACK SELF, reviews pictures of the present. Artist ISSY WOOD reviews Diet Coke. Editor and NHS worker REBECCA SHARP reviews the SOCIALIST PATIENTS COLLECTIVE, while BRADY NG and HERA CHAN review Hong Kong protest strategies.

Also in the issue: HUW LEMMEY reviews PIETRO ARETINO, the Renaissance master of pornographic literature and blackmail. TRAUM INC. with REAL REVIEW present a Renaissance collaboration inspired by MARCUS AURELIUS and GIOTTO. Artist ANNA BLESSMANN reviews absent artefacts and Indigenous activist PEKERI RUSKA reviews the Aboriginal concept of country. PEER ILLNER reviews WhatsApp and surveillance capitalism, while ADJUSTMENTS AGENCY reviews groundbreaking ceremonies. AHMED and RASHID BIN SHABIB review pigeon architecture and artist BEN CULLEN WILLIAMS reviews Antarctica (through the lens of AI neural networks). CHARLIE ROBIN JONES reviews horoscopes, MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE reviews solitude and JACK SELF reviews the internet.

The Silve Lining

Our latest issue, The Silver Lining, reports on solutions to the pandemic in Europe. The virus doesn’t stop at borders. Neither does solidarity.

From hotlines and a simple “hello”, to contact-tracing technologies and football supporters building field hospitals, discover the people, places and politics making sure this cloud will have a silver lining.

Real Review is a quarterly contemporary culture magazine with the strapline “what it means to live today”. Our agenda focuses on the politics of space, and how everyday conditions enforce and reinforce power relations.

INSIDE REAL REVIEW 9

Aren't these strange times? We interview RYUICHI SAKAMOTO on the meaning of good timing. OLAFUR ELIASSON presents a special artwork to help us feel more together, while WILL SELF reviews deep adaptation and the ellipsis. Curator SARAH MCCRORY reviews the work of feminist artist ALEXIS HUNTER, who in turn reviews why the wives of Marxists still do the housework. EXTINCTION REBELLION publish a manifesto and call to arms, while CRESSIDA BROTHERSTONE and HARLEY WEIR review art therapy and neurodiversity. HITO STEYERL reviews the algorithms designed to distinguish faces from butts. GIORGIO AGAMBEN reviews the contemporary.

Also in the issue: AMY ROMER reviews modern-day slavery, while JACK SELF reviews the invention of the Japanese housewife and how edging reframes being. ELISABETH KENDALL reviews Jihadi poetry, TAMAR SHAFRIR reviews Vitruvius, RAVEN SMITH reviews the endless cycle of fashion and ZOË RITTS reviews the pop-up.

Die Epilog ist eine Zeitschrift für Fragen, Antworten, Pointen und überraschende Wendungen zur Gegenwartskultur.

Gegründet 2012 in Weimar, blickt sie von Berlin aus einmal jährlich mit Optimismus und kulturtheoretischer Brille auf Phänomene, die Menschen in Bewegung beschäftigen. Mit Texten zwischen Essay, Reportage, Lyrik und die Denkräume erweiternden Bildstrecken ist jede Ausgabe von Die Epilog ein sorgfältig kuratiertes und effektvoll gestaltetes Ausloten eines immer wieder neuen Themenfeldes.

Ausgabe 9

Das Leben ist hart — Thema: Zärtlichkeit

Wie steht es um deine Soft Skills, Darling? Während sich die Fronten gesellschaftlicher und politischer Realitäten verhärten, schaut die Epilog Nr. 9 auf die soften Nischen der Gegenwart und entdeckt Zärtlichkeit nicht als Rückzug, sondern als politische Strategie. Wir umarmen die ganze Welt und rufen die Metazärtlichkeit aus, die Normie-Romantik und unpolitischen Hippie-Shit transzendiert, und finden Liebe an hoffnungslosen Orten. Die neue Softness sprengt alle Kategorien und transformiert die Grenzen unseres Denkens, unserer Körper, unseres Wir. Kommt meta-kuscheln! Und friemelt mit uns die Fusseln aus dem Flokati unseres Herzens. Mit Sicherheitsabstand, versteht sich.
Erschienen im Mai 2020.

Losing our Religion

What happens when we lose our religion and God is declared Dead? How do young people find meaning and spiritual fulfilment? And are we really as secular as we think? Discover the stories of believers and non-believers from all over the continent.

The First Nations Issue

Guest edited by Bridget Caldwell-Bright and Maddee Clark.

Featuring words by: 
Andrew Farrell 
Indiah Money 
Kai Clancy 
Laniyuk 
Rose Chalks 
SJ Norman 
Timmah Ball 
Tré Turner 
William Cooper

Featuring images by: 
Moorina Bonini 
William Cooper 
Ebony Daniels 
Edwina Green 
Morgan Hickinbotham 
Jacinta Keefe 
Ricardo Martinez-Roa 
Daniel McDonald 
Hailey Harper Moroney 
SJ Norman 
Bodie Strain 
Pierra Van Sparkes 
Toz Withall

In Deutschland beenden jedes Jahr ungefähr Zehntausend Menschen ihr Leben – das entspricht der Bevölkerungszahl einer deutschen Großstadt. In den Monaten März und Mai sind die Suizide am häufigsten. Es ist wichtig, über Suizide zu berichten und vor allem über das, was Betroffene durchmachen. Das neue Heft liegt uns wirklich am Herzen.

The Boundaries Issue

The third issue of Anxy looks at the ways our inner worlds define the lines we draw and the space we create. Our signature mix of personal stories, reporting and photo essays features perspectives from Open Mike Eagle, Samantha Irby, and Alana Hope Levinson; plus artwork and photography by Kendrick Brinson, Merijn Hos, Aundre Larrow and more.

IN THIS ISSUE

A journey into the biodiverse Amazon Basin with Thomas Lovejoy, researcher and founder of the renowned Forest Fragments project — Aaron Bastani’s opinion on the current economic system’s role in the climate crisis — Feature with Danish artist group SUPERFLEX on what it takes to face cultural challenges — A deep dive into the most natural and unnatural tendencies of the colour green — Utilising art to think ecologically with curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries, Lucia Pietroiusti — Original fiction shorts  — Photo series examining the ebb and flow of our relationship to the sea  — the Mayday Index and much more.

Awakening is the theme of our seventh issue. Awakening is a state of inner attainment. In choosing this fresh and rejuvenating theme which is inclined to induce an array of different connotations for the Spring-Summer season, we tried to focus on where we feel this effect at its fullest.