READ Making the mundane must-have – Prada and the art of the fashion meme in THE GUARDIAN: “Key to a designer’s success in the social media age is finding that sweet spot between being lightly ridiculed online and adored by the fashion crowd” 🐊🔮
Teeth, Manure, All That Shit: ISAMAYA FFRENCH’s Anti-Beauty Makeup
“You know you take your jade egg, roll it in a little acid, and you shove it up your —,” Waldman said, making a swift upward motion with her hand as everyone around the table laughed. “Absorb it through your mucous membranes and it gives you a kind of extraordinary experience.”💊💊💊
– Ayelet Waldman, in a conversation with fellow psychonauts-cum-authors Michael Pollan and T.C. Boyle, on the “GOOP-ification” of hallucinogenic drugs 🦋🦋🦄🦄
READ MORE in “The Highs and Lows of LSD Literature” at The New York Times
BUY 032C ISSUE #36 to read our extended conversation with Pollan on his latest book, How to Change Your Mind 🐣🐣
032c WHAT WE BELIEVE IS IN THE HISTORY BOOKS 📚
On the occasion of Pitti Uomo n.96, taking place in Florence now through June 14, the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery presents ROMANZO BREVE DI MODA MASCHILE (A SHORT NOVEL ON MEN’S FASHION), an exhibition showcasing thirty years of menswear from 1989 to the present. Curated by OLIVIER SAILLARD and on view in the halls of the Palazzo Pitti Museo della Moda e del Costume, the presentation recounts the history and evolution of menswear in storybook-style vignettes. A look from our first-ever menswear collection, 032c WHAT WE BELIEVE, launched at Pitti Uomo in 2018, is featured alongside work by more than 100 designers who contributed to this narrative of fashion. ⚜️
SEE MORE at Pitti Immagine Uomo
🗓 WHEN ARE WE? 🗓
This week a panel of geologists formally accepted that we have entered a NEW EPOCH of PLANETARY HISTORY: the ANTHROPOCENE 👣 🌍
READ MORE at NATURE.COM 🌱
“We want things to be seen differently”: Camilla and Giulia Venturini’s MEDEA
“The most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination. It is as if humanity has been afflicted by a psychological complex, in which we believe the present world is stronger than our capacity to remake it — as if it were not our ancestors who created what stands before us now. As if the very essence of humanity, if there is such a thing, is not to constantly build new worlds.
If we can move beyond such a failure, we will be able to see something wonderful. The plummeting cost of information and advances in technology are providing the ground for a collective future of freedom and luxury for all.”
– AARON BASTANI markets “Fully Automated Luxury Communism,” subject of his new book released today, in an op-ed for The New York Times.
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Opening Today: Crack Up – Crack Down 💥⚖️🛰🐉
The Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts 2019 in Slovenia is curated by Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars – an investigation of “the graphic” under authoritarian rule as it manifests in comedy, criticism, and protest as satire.
From the curators: “Often lauded for its ability to speak truth to power, satire has proven itself to be perhaps the original petri dish in a world of post-truth bacteria. A many-headed creature, satire has been considered by turns a form of popular philosophy, biting critique, and a conservative genre given its moralising inclinations. It thrives in periods of authoritarian rule: from the rich tradition of Communist humour in Central and Eastern Europe, to the many examples from the Middle East. Today, the return of strong-man rule in the West has witnessed a boom in comedy and satire.”
Open until September 29, 2019. More info: http://bienale.si/en/ 📲📲
Above: Dozie Kanu, Chair [xiii] (Stand Up) (Ja Rule), 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
RICH THINGS: How Tourism, Sneakers, and Museums Make the Economy of Enrichment
“The music I want to drop now, I want it to be appreciated for a long time. I put my all into this shit, and I want it to be a timeless piece. If I could, I would drop music all day, but I can’t. And if you’re a real Carti fan, you know that.”
PLAYBOI CARTI: A House That Makes Rap Music
📸 Renell Medrano and Zoe Costello ✍️ Thom Bettridge
032c Issue 36 – Summer 2019
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In the new issue of 032c, This Young Monster author Charlie Fox writes a suicide note to bury among the curios and austere obsessions at the home of Austrian literary firebrand Thomas Bernhard. Meanwhile in London, the essayist and now curator Fox has fathered twin exhibitions, “Dracula’s Wedding” at the Rodeo Gallery and “My Head is a Haunted House” at Sadie Coles HQ, featuring contributions from artists including Ed Atkins, Alex Da Corte, Mary Ellen Mark, John Waters, and Lonnie Holley. Both shows run until early August. Photo: Alex Bad, “Twelve Spells (Aries)”, courtesy Rodeo Gallery
032c Issue 36 – Summer 2019, which includes “Thomas Bernhard: Possessions,” is available now at our online store.
“In its metaphysical proclamation that ‘all of us know what is and is not appropriate for the workplace,’ the memo bespeaks a Babylonian code of unspoken rules. It says that professional conduct is identical to ruling-class savoir-faire, and its manners are too circumspect to say much else. ‘This memo should be taught in business schools,’ Matt Levine, a former Goldman employee, wrote, in a Bloomberg opinion column. ‘Goldman’s dress code is that you should dress the way you’re supposed to dress at Goldman. If you have to ask, etc. The difference between a middling banker and a great one is this sort of tacit knowledge.’ This is the essence of Manhattan business-casual, less a style of dress than an enigmatic language of power. It’s not necessarily exclusive in terms of price, but it’s exclusionary in terms of intent.”
– Troy Patterson on a “Firmwide Dress Code” memo sent to Goldman Sachs Group employees. Read more on Patagonia and the mysteries of “business casual” at The New Yorker 👕👟🎒🕶
Issue #36 – Summer 2019: WORKING OUT LOUD
We salute French philosopher MICHEL SERRES (1930-2019) theorist of communication, science, culture, and the “noise” that lingers in the background of life and thought.
From Issue #25 – Winter 2013/14: Are new technologies giving birth to a new human being? 📡📟⌚️📲
That’s right. Already at the time that printing was invented Michel de Montaigne wrote in his Essays (1580), “I would rather a well-made than a well-filled head.” He had noticed this peculiar thing, which was that the head – as a thinking subject – was changing. The feeling at the time of the printing revolution was that a new way of thinking was emerging, and proof of this is that mathematical physics came about around this time. Today, too, a new way of thinking – and quite simply, a new head – is emerging. You can see it in the computer: It holds your memory and a lot of your operating system. As a result, there are many old brain functions that are being replaced by the computer, and thus the head is changing. That’s the new human being.
Read the full interview with 032c contributing editor Hans Ulrich Obrist: https://032c.com/michel-serres/
“One of The Satanic Temple’s fundamental tenets is the inviolability of one’s body. Members of The Satanic Temple believe that non-viable fetal tissue is part of the woman who carries it, and as such, state impositions of ceremonial requirements dictating its disposal, barring any plausible medical or sanitary concerns, is a violation of TST’s Free Exercise allowing Satanists to contextualize the termination of a pregnancy on their own terms, with deference to their own religious beliefs. … It’s time that petty sanctimonious panderers like Vice President Pence … come to realize that religious liberty means freedom from unreasonable government imposition upon religious opinion and practice — not his own ‘freedom’ to impose a particular religiously-dictated practice upon the electorate whom he serves.”
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– Lucien Greaves, spokesperson and co-founder of The Satanic Temple, in a statement responding to recent US court rulings placing obstacles on people seeking or providing abortions.
Read more over at THE HILL 🏛🇺🇸
👀👀 OUT SOON 👀👀
032c Issue #36
SUMMER 2019
Featuring cover model Małgosia Bela in THE RETINA NOT THE PEARL
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