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“With the decline of industry from 1970 to 1980, young people who came from the bourgeoisie and whose parents were engineers or doctors, began to work within this new domain – in museums, fashion or the luxury sector. This became the core of a new economy. Today, we exist in this model of ‘creativity’ and everyone, whether they are a hairdresser or a chef, wants to be a ‘creative’.”
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– French sociologists LUC BOLTANSKI and ARNAUD ESQUERRE, featured in 032c Issue #35, in an interview with Pablo Larios for the September “food” themed issue of FRIEZE
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FURTHER READING! Boltanski and Esquerre speak to Victoria Camblin in RICH THINGS: How Tourism, Sneakers, and Museums Make the Economy of Enrichment!
Supermodel and 032c Issue #34 cover heroine MARIACARLA BOSCONO stars in “I do it exceptionally well, I do it so it feels like hell,” shot by THOMAS LOHR.
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READ: Thomas Lohr’s Technosexual Fashion Photography
“There was something odd about [the Aufstehen party’s] would-be grassroots mobilization. Social movements are not typically planned from above with a readymade hashtag, logo, and a date marked on the calendar.”
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Read more on POP-UP POPULISM: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany in DISSENT.
“I mostly just like to hang out and eat Taco Bell on the houseboat I have in Key Largo.”
We couldn’t help but notice – thanks, Instagram – that a lot of you are still bumming around the beach. Here’s our interview with artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine (sort of) on the topic.
Model, actor, singer, designer, and 032c Issue #35 cover heroine KIKO MIZUHARA is a sensual transhumanist inside a skeletronic robot for an editorial shot in Tokyo by THOMAS LOHR.
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READ: Thomas Lohr’s Technosexual Fashion Photography
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BE WATER – What to bring to the Hong Kong protests:
⛱ Umbrella ✅
🏂Surf board ✅
🔦Lazer pointer ✅
👚Spare T shirt ✅
See more in the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.
“The curious thing about Woodstock was that everyone who went there thought it was their own idea. They appeared there, and nobody knew that there were that many people coming.” – KEVIN KELLY 🍄
“I would never loosely use the word love, but I’m very happy saying it this way: we should allow love some space. Obviously, that’s what Woodstock was about.” – OLAFUR ELIASSON 🌻
READ THE FULL CONVERSATION HERE
Maus creator ART SPIEGELMAN on comic books:
“Today, Captain America’s most nefarious villain, the Red Skull, is alive on screen and an Orange Skull haunts America.” Read “Golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism” in THE GUARDIAN>>
THE POWER OF THREE: THOMAS LOHR’S TECHNOSEXUAL FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
“Violent games don’t appear to predict anything useful about violent thoughts or acts—not physical aggression, social aggression, or even cyberbullying.” So why are games still blamed for massacres like El Paso? Game designer and theorist IAN BOGOST in The Atlantic:
“Video-Game Violence Is Now a Partisan Issue.”
👾 GAMIFYING RESISTANCE 👾
In the mobile game GIGCO: Escape the Gig Economy! you play an Amazon worker, delivering boxes between two points in a warehouse with the tap of a finger on a phone screen.
READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH GAME DESIGNERS SPEKWORK
“We don’t believe the system is broken, so we don’t want it fixed. We want it abolished.”
Read how prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance acquired a former baby store in Oakland, CA.
Issue #36 – Summer 2019: WORKING OUT LOUD
ADIDAS CLIMBING WALLS x NIKE ACTIVISM x KFC POTHOLES x PEPSI ASTEROIDS 👟☄️