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Auflage: 500 Expl.
Umfang: 132 Seiten
Format: 282 x 375 mm
Druck: Offset 4/4-farbig Skala
Umschlag: LuxoArt Silk, weiss, halbmattgestrichen, 400 g/m2
Inhalt: Werkdruck 1.8, weiss, 80 g/m2

The Sports Issue | #10

What can sports tell us about who we are? This magazine is for sports fans and sceptics alike!

Sports are the stuff of nation-building, symbolism, anthems and collective pride. But also of exclusion, violence and collective hysteria. They inspire us to push the limits of human endurance, to seek glory and to suffer losses, but also to express ourselves and get to know our bodies better.

Featured stories

• How capoeira helped my sister find—and keep—her footing in Europe

• Meet the Snagglerats, Scotland’s girl skateboarders

• Line dancing and nostalgia in eastern Germany

• Building a global warming-proof ski resort in Italy

• How many Neymars? An infographic about big money in the sports industry

AB 153: The New Left

Let’s get into something personal right off the hop. Let's talk about resistance.

Resistance is what people feel when they just can’t face what needs to be done. Something important is right in front of them, but it’s so hairy, so scary in its implications on their life, their cozy way of keeping on keeping on, that they can’t deal with it.

Resistance grips us when our very soul recognizes just how much is on the line. Like right now.

Caught in an existential crisis with no obvious way out, we begin to question the hidden coordinates of our reality and start thinking about a new operating system for Planet Earth. We hatch a new grand narrative, a set of ideas so fundamental, so systemic, so profound that a sane sustainable future is unthinkable without them.

And then we deploy them.

In this 200-page mindbomb, we unleash a movement that operates completely outside of geographic borders and political structures — the Third Force — to revitalize the forces of resistance and point the way to a future that computes.

Dummy N° 70

Vertrauen

Zunächst einmal scheint eine gesunde Portion Misstrauen nicht falsch. Andererseits darf das Zweifeln nicht einfache Antworten und Wahrheiten implizieren. Da wird von den Eliten und dem „Volk“ geredet, die Meinungspluralität und der Segen gesellschaftlich-kultureller Vielfalt infrage gestellt. Und obwohl die Kriminalität in unserem Land zahlenmäßig zurückgeht, steigt die Angst vor Einbrüchen, Diebstählen, Überfällen. Das ist nur ein Bereich, in dem sich zeigt, dass die allgemeine Stimmung zunehmend wichtiger ist als überprüfbare Daten und Fakten. Zeit, sich das Vertrauen mal genauer anzusehen.

132 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English

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?

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.

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.

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.