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The education of Jeremy Corbyn
Ruinart give Carte Blanche to Eva Jospin
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TANKtv Season 9: Conception
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TANKtv highlights

THE EDUCATION OF JEREMY CORBYN
a three-part series on school, protest, and hopes for the National Education Service
LOST FOREVER - TONY NJOKU
pensive piano work from the avant-pop artist
HUSBAND
directors’ commentary with Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum
FELINE UNDER THE WEATHER:
Artangel presents four new short films from artist Abi Palmer
SHUANG LI - DEJA VU
the artist is not present
MEET ME IN LOUISVILLE:
Kinza Shenn samples the best bourbon in a trip to the Bluegrass State
NEWS OF THE WORLD:
Faisal Devji answers your burning questions
THE INFINITE CONVERSATION:
creative coder Giacomo Miceli gets Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek talking
WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT FOOTBALL?:
a conversation on the beautiful game
NATURAL SENSATION:
champagne and chalk with Jeppe Hein and Ruinart
AN APPETITE FOR ECONOMICS:
an interview with Ha-Joon Chang
“MY LIFE WAS MAKING ME ANXIOUS”:
Bora Chung reads from Cursed Bunny
THE ELEMENT OF DISLOCATION:
Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk talk translation
KWAME SORRELL AND NABIL HIMICH:
getting to know the desert and making art as a caravan
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION?:
Jennifer Venditti on the art and alchemy of casting
CHINATOWN:
Tice Cin interviews Thuận on her spellbinding new book
CLAIRE DE ROUEN TALK SHOP:
directors of the legendary bookshop discuss art books
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SLIME:
slime, thrash metal, and the Cold War
CONSTELLATIONS:
the cellular meets the celestial
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Writers reading

PUNK ORIENTALISM:
Sara Raza on punk movements, the history of orientalism, and revolutionary practices in contemporary art
SO IT HAPPENED:
an extract from Modun Er Soǧotox
INFOTAINMENT:
AI avatars bring new life to Oliver Salway's examination of the newsroom in the time of VR
WHICH AS YOU KNOW MEANS VIOLENCE:
Philippa Snow on pain, injury, and sadomasochism
EDIBLE ECONOMICS:
Ha-Joon Chang reads from his digestible alternative to neoliberalism
NOTHING NEW:
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld reads from his original flash fiction
CONSUMED:
Arifa Akbar reads from her portrait of sisterhood, grief and art
THE LAST DAYS OF ROGER FEDERER:
Geoff Dyer reads from his long meditation on endings and exits
COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW:
travel back in time to Hong Kong with Jessica Au
CHINATOWN:
Thuận and Trà My Hickin read from the novel in Vietnamese and English
AWAKE: Harald Voetmann gives voice to a corpulent Pliny the Elder
GIRL ONLINE:
Joanna Walsh goes down the online rabbit hole
STALIN'S ARCHITECT: Deyan Sudjic on the life and work of Boris Iofan
DARK NEIGHBOURHOOD:
Vanessa Onwuemezi's hot and heady short story, “Cuba”
REPLACE ME:
Amber Husain on late capitalist fear
WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES:
Fintan O’Toole reads from his first-person history of Ireland in the second half of the 20th century
MANASCHI:
Uzbek author Hamid Ismailov reads from the third novel in his central Asian trilogy
KEEPING THE HOUSE:
Tice Cin reads from her novel of legacy, lineage and identity among North London’s clandestine heroin trade
AMNION:
Stephanie Sy-Quia reads from her excavating book-length poem
SEVASTOPOL:
Brazillian author Emilio Fraia reads from his collection of three highly atmospheric and super-saturated stories
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Afterthoughts

DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES: Nathalie Olah and Rachael Allen sing from the same hymn sheet
NAKED: Megan Nolan and K Biswas strip it back
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Wendy Erskine and Susannah Dickey feel the sway
RASHOMON: Josh Cohen and Rye Dag Holmboe split the difference
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Caroline Issa and Ali Golsorkhi apprehend the brute
EARLY SUMMER: Leo Robson and Joanna Biggs take flight
RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX: Lamorna Ash and Georgie Carr decode the puzzle
CARAVAGGIO: Barry Pierce and Eliza Clark paint with light and dark
FITZCARRALDO: Rebecca Tamás and Rebecca May Johnson ascend new heights
THE BELLY OF AN ARCHITECT: Matteo Pericoli and David Annand uncover new designs
SUMMER WITH MONIKA: Maddie Mortimer and Saskia Dixie catch some rays
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Art and artistry

MEME CLASS WORLDWIDE
A meme-led education
AKONI IN AID OF EDUCATION
Elogio teaches generational lessons
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
two days of world-bending theory at the Science Gallery with Ignota Books
ASSEM A HENDAWI, EVERYTHING UNDER HEAVEN:
The economy of sand
THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF GESTURE:
Eva Jospin is Ruinart’s new Carte Blanche artist at Reims
MITICO VR:
art in the Italian landscape with Belmond
L'IDIOT UTILE:
join us at TANK GPS for the launch of issue one of Hubert Crabières' new journal
ES DEVLIN X CARTIER:
take me to church
ELISA SHUA DUSAPIN:
the novelist on plastic surgery and linguistic distance
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH:
daily walks with Alexander Coggin and Alice Ray
BAD NEW DAYS:
critic Hal Foster on art and emergency
LUNCH BREAK:
artist Rose Wylie at home in her studio
ONE FILM, TWO LIVES:
tradition, transformation and the singular presence of Googoosh in Parviz Sayyad’s Along the Night
VINCULUM:
photographer Sally Mann discusses her singular approach to image-making
AFTER THOUGHTS: John Berger as secular saint in The Seasons of Quincy
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TANK music

ABADIR
gqom giddiness from the Cairo-born DJ
BITZER MALONEY B2B SCHUTTLE
sonorous deep house rhythms from Salford
FELICIA ATKINSON
disquieting intimacy and naturalistic textures
CAJM
controlled cacophony and embroidery rhythms from the London producer
KINLAW & FRANCO FRANCO
metalloid trap nightmares from duo Kinlaw and Franco Franco
WATERBABY:
surreal, hypermodern electronica, syrupy choral pieces and brushes with 80s pop
YIKII:
the Changchun-based producer presents a “gibberish dream” of classical influences
GABBER MODUS OPERANDI:
a new mix and and interview from the Indonesian duo upending globalisation’s flattening effects
HIMERA:
rising producer and arpeggio angel Himera delivers an exclusive-heavy “tribute to MIDI” in their TANK mix
BOD [包家巷]:
a mix and a conversation on mania, ritual and world-building form the Berlin-based musician
ABYSS X:
an interview and dizzying mix from the Cretan musician
OTIS:
a club-ready mix for clubless times from the Slagwerk founder
RUI HO:
30 minutes of giddy euphoria from the Berlin-via-Shanghai producer
OXHY:
listen to a fragmented archive from the London-based producer
MALIBU:
widescreen emotion and black-heart emojis courtesy of the French ambient producer in this week’s TANK mix
JAY MITTA:
in the latest instalment of the TANK mix series, Jay Mitta brings you accelerated dance music from the streets of Dar es Salaam
ESTOC:
dizzying multi-track edits and anti-fascist hardstyle from the Philadelphia-based producer
FIRAASBEATS:
the latest instalment in the TANK mix series comes courtesy of the producer Firaasbeats
PELADA:
jagged hardware techno by way of hardcore punk from the Montreal-based duo
WRACK:
effervescent synth melodies and propulsive dembow drum tracks from Tokyo-based producer WRACK
DINAMARCA:
the Stockholm-based producer delivers a TANK mix full of unreleased instrumentals and hazy but occasionally euphoric hooks
KAMIXLO:
pneumatic reggaeton from the South London producer and Bala Club co-founder
BABY BLUE:
an exclusive mix and Q&A with Vancouver-based producer and it-girl Baby Blue
UMRU:
search-engine-optimised chaos from the PC Music producer
ZIUR:
an exclusive mix and Q&A with the Berlin-based producer with an affinity for the unexpected
DASYCHIRA:
this instalment of the TANK mix series features the NYC-based producer Dasychira and comes paired with a Q&A and exclusive video-premiere
SWAN MEAT:
this instalment of the TANK mix series comes courtesy of Swan Meat, offering a unique blend of baroque club music
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Podcast

PODCAST | JEREMY CORBYN
the former Labour Party Leader on what he went to school for
PODCAST | THE NEW EUROPEAN RIGHT:
Faisal Devji with incisive analysis
PODCAST | THE LAST DAYS OF ROGER FEDERER:
Geoff Dyer disintegrates
PODCAST | WELCOME TO SILLYVISATION:
how entertainment merged with news to make it it silly season all year round
PODCAST | TRANSLATE TO THE PARTY:
part two of Anton and Bryan’s conversation
PODCAST | LOST IN TRANSLATION:
Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk leap between languages
PODCAST | LANGUAGE GAMES:
Thuận and Trà My Hickin read in Vietnamese and English
PODCAST | TICE CIN INTERVIEWS THUAN:
dreaming in Chinatown
PODCAST | PANKAJ MISHRA READS:
selling samosas along the train tracks
PODCAST | FERNANDA MELCHOR AND SOPHIE HUGHES READ:
blistering prose from Mexico
PODCAST | BARBARA EPLER ON GENIUS:
the summer's hottest titles
PODCAST | TINA SPEAKS TO HONFORD STAR:
Anthony and Taylor of Honford Star talk books
PODCAST | HARALD VOETMANN READS FROM AWAKE:
Pliny the Elder remembers his childhood
PODCAST | TINA READS TOM MORTON:
on the grubbiness of our literary roots
PODCAST | PATRICK GALBRAITH READS FROM ONE LAST SONG:
on an encounter in Orkney
PODCAST | TINA READS MASOUD GOLSORKHI:
on the degraded language of the image
PODCAST | TINA SPEAKS TO TIKTOK'S JESSIE
a conversation between two womenbots
PODCAST | TINA READS TIMOTHY MORTON:
on the other side of the consumer tunnel
PODCAST | TINA READS EMILY SEGAL:
astrology on the Upper East Side
PODCAST | TINA READS JOE KENNEDY:
on how the left might recapture the rural
PODCAST | TINA READS SOFIA SAMATAR:
on opacity, or connection that depends on a lack of understanding
PODCAST | TAO LIN:
a discussion about the pathologies of dominator culture, and prehistoric and extra-terrestrial sources of inspiration
PODCAST | THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR EXTREME WEALTH:
the market for contemporary art has expanded exponentially beyond what anyone could have imagined, but what is it expanding into?
PODCAST | HATTY NESTOR:
the complex role of portraiture within the invisible cruelties of the criminal justice system
PODCAST | DUBRAVKA UGRESIC:
the shape-shifting author speaks with with Lisa Appignanesi about truth-telling in fiction, edenic stories and pursuits of home in literature
PODCAST | EMILY SEGAL:
the writer and trend forecaster on cons, atemporal culture and her first novel Mercury Retrograde
PODCAST | KELLER EASTERLING:
the architect and author of Medium Design on thinking beyond the fatal flaws of technosolutionism
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From the archive

WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS: “Within the aesthetic space, elegance and kitsch are furthest apart, and precisely these two categories are represented practically unchanged in about 60 different languages”
DOOMSDAY'S DAYBREAK: as our understanding of our place within the cosmos has expanded, so too have the ethical demands placed upon us. By Thomas Moynihan
HAMJA AHSAN: “I think everyone involved in activism in Britain has to go to the Quaker houses”
ALTERLAA HOUSING COMPLEX: Alterlaa’s network of special interest clubs sits at the intersection of design and collective play. Photography by Zara Pfeifer
SUSPENDED SENTENCE: the implications of the pandemic on the relationship between state and citizen. By Faisal Devji
NICOLE FLATTERY: “I’m not particularly interested in having everything explained to me.”
A SHORT HISTORY OF POPPY MUSIC by Dean Kissick, illustration by Jiye Kim
WITCH-HUNT: gossip has always been a secret language of friendship and resistance between women. By Hannah Black
JIA ZHANGKE: “Once I’ve released my films I don’t watch them any more”
FLASH FICTION by Lynne Tillman
LAUREN BERLANT and the cruelty of optimism
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE: what became of the dream of a meal in a pill? Bee Wilson traces the strange legacies of the meal replacement, from early feminist fantasy to contemporary Silicon Valley reality
TALKS: MARGO JEFFERSON: “So much of my adult identity has been as a critic, so that means I live through texts and objects”
CURSED HARVEST: the human and ecological impact of soya-bean food production Photography by Jordi Ruiz Cirera
ALENKA ZUPANCIC: “Sexuality is constitutively out-of-its-place, fragmented and dispersed”
LINA KHAN: “Efficiency is not a good proxy for competition”
PLAYING AGAINST EXTINCTION: Lukáš Likavčan and Leonardo Dellanoce discuss planetary infrastructure in Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding
GWENDOLINE RILEY: “Sooner or later you just have to come to terms with yourself, which doesn’t mean smiling on all your misdeeds, but rather not being a hostage to them”
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