Real Review 18 is dedicated to the current mood of 'Pretending the World'—the idea that to pretend is to lay claim to a reality before it exists, and that performative gestures, so often dismissed as posturing, are how new societies come into being.
About This Book
Edited by Jack Self, the London-based magazine uses the review format to examine power through close attention to the material world. This issue considers conviction, performance and make-believe as political forces: in technology and labour, in energy futures and off-grid fantasies, in empire and in the economics of fire. Nishant Choksi's cover—a slipping mask—sets the tone for an issue in which political authority and mass mobilisation are shown to be bound up with performance. Real Review carries no advertising and is funded by sales and its members.
Key Features
- Interview with Meredith Whittaker
- Sumayya Vally in conversation with Shumon Basar on the spaces of other worlds
- Photo essay and interview with Alvaro Fernandez-Pulpeiro on petro futures
- Further contributions from James Bridle, Günseli Yalçinkaya, Ana Nicolaescu, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Kwan Queeni Li, Jessica Burbank, Tyler Mitchell and Jack Self
What You'll Discover
- James Bridle on why there is no such thing as going off grid
- Reality shifting, retrocausality and larping an empire as ways of thinking about how futures are made
- Ana Nicolaescu on slopwork, and Ruth Schwartz Cowan revisiting domestic labour
- Weeds, fire and syndicates of capital as lenses on contemporary power
About the Author
Jack Self is the founder and editor-in-chief of Real Review, and an architect and writer based in London.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover magazine
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838493462
- Publisher: Real Review
Perfect For: Architects, designers and critical readers following how power, technology and performance shape the conditions of everyday life.