The Realism Issue, Summer 2015 | Issue 64
fronting
features
- Featuring: COLIN MACCABE finds fractious definitions for a slippery word
- JEDEDIAH PURDY goes back to reality
- PAOLO BARBI photographs the superior reality of ordinary things
- DEYAN SUDJIC goes inside the archive of Herzog & de Meuron
- WILL WILES on the utopians desperate to break out of the reality of the nation state
- Esoteric chemistry: ZAHEER KAZMI on an alchemical approach to our understanding of Islam
- THE WELLCOME COLLECTION'S Emily Sargent traces the boundaries of the body, technology and consciousness
- A life on the surface: How to give an account of ISIS? FAISAL DEVJI argues that it is through the movement’s superficiality, rather than any hidden depth, that it can be best understood
- Text embodied: ANNE JAMISON on the uses of rhetoric in fanfiction communities
- Paranoids on Android: BENJAMIN BRATTON in the strange world of pattern recognition
- Keeping up with the real: AJAY RS HOTHI AND CHRISTABEL STEWART present five contemporary artists preoccupied with the return of realness
- Scratching the surface: BRYANBOY reports from the front line of the super bloggers’ war with reality
- The complexities of life: star designer PRABAL GURUNG has both feet firmly on the ground
- A feminine mystique: the talented GUILLAUME HENRY has put aside girlish things and embarked on a quest for the complete Nina Ricci woman
- COME AS YOU ARE: Photography by Estelle Hanania, styling by Benoît Bèthume
- FRAUGHT WITH DRASTIC BEAUTY: Photography by Michael Hemy, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Nina Walbecq
- CELLULOID AND MARBLE: Photography by Emanuele Fontanesi, styling by Anna Schiffel
- YOU'RE MY FAVOURITE WORK OF ART: Photography by Lena C. Emery, styling by Sara Gilmour
- THE MOST RADICAL GESTURE:
