BIG CITY DREAMING:
Nicholas Chevaldave undercuts the cruel optimism of the housing market
The Bubbles Issue, Spring 2016 | Issue 66
fronting
features
- PETER SLOTERDIJK: A very brief introduction to the prolific philosopher of spheres
- DOUBLE BUBBLE: reading Sloterdijk in New Delhi. Kai Friese makes his way into the German philosopher’s globalised glasshouse
- BUBBLE MENTALITY: the intrigue of political experiments. With collapsing trust in global governance, zones and enclaves have come to embody utopian aspirations for the future of statehood. By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- SPHERES OF DESTINY: bubbles are the key to understanding how life on this planet evolved. By Martha Henriques
- THE BIG BUBBLY: inflatable architecture seems to speak of optimism. Yet as Peter Lang argues, these transparent experiments can be as claustrophobic as they are progressive
- WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS: economist Mariana Mazzucato on the “creative destruction” initiated by technological innovation and the brazen “destructive creation” of speculative finance
- TOIL AND TROUBLE: how art can create alternative spaces of resistance within the market logic of the globalised world. By Timotheus Vermeulen
- WESTMINSTER BUBBLE: the UK Parliament’s vote on Syria is only the latest example of its reality-distorting provincialism. By Nesrine Malik
- FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES: an effervescent industry, predicated on impermanence. Colin McDowell casts a historical eye on the vagaries and caprices of fashion
- BEHEADED BY IOS: filter bubbles and the feminine touch in the photography of Josephine Pryde. By Lili Owen Rowlands
- FROM MILLAIS TO WELLS: a history of science and the business of bubbles, an interview with Simon J. Schaffer
- ART POP: delicate, thin, transparent and boundaried arrangements, ready to burst at any time. By Ajay R.S. Hothi and Christabel Stewart
- A STITCH IN TIME: the hectic pace of fashion is being slowed down by a hands-on revolution. Tank meets the designers putting craft at the cutting edge
- NEO-BAROQUE:
- LIGHT BY DESIGN: photography by Osma Harvilahti, styling by Bobby Hook
- IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS: photography by Lena C. Emery, styling by Sara Gilmour
- DOUBLE TAKE: photography by Joanna Piotrowska, fashion by Caroline Issa and Nobuko Tannawa
- MIRROR MIRROR: Masahisa Fukase
- CHIMERA:
- HEAVENLY BODIES:
- Tods
talk
- HAL FOSTER: “I think art remains a site of such discontent, of such pushback, or, perhaps better, a place of hiding in plain sight”
- SARA HOSSAIN: “Yes, discrimination is embedded in a lot of the colonial legislation that remains”
- LYNNE TILLMAN: “I have a little English person inside of me and inside that, a little German man, or an enigma inside a riddle”
- ERIK DAVIS: “The whole domain of fandom has become interpolated, monitored, micromanaged and engineered by cultural industries”
- DOUGLAS MURPHY: “In the world we have now, the future is happening but your life won’t change at all, you’ll just have a cooler gadget”
- MATT GIBBERD & ALBERT HILL: “We don’t sell units of square footage, we sell a drama of volume and space”
- SYLVIE TISSOT: “I think racism keeps changing in France. It keeps incorporating new arguments”
- PETER COOK:“I love moving things up a diagonal”
- JOANNA WALSH: “I’m interested in the gaps, the nuances of meaning I seem to pick up between French and English”
- JOHN FOOT: “They didn’t want auntie back from the loony bin to live with them”
- FRÉDÉRIC PANAÏOTIS: “Serving champagne in plastic cups is not the French art de vivre!”
