UGLY PLYMOUTHS:
the utopian incoherence of Martine Syms
Cosy issue, 2020 | Issue 82 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
- ZEN AND THE ART OF FORGETTING by Masoud Golsorkhi
- SPRING/SUMMER 2020 by Caroline Issa
- FASHION MEDITATION 2020: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- ON BEAUTY: photography by Neven Allgeier, styling by Carmen Bellot
- TOY STORY: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, art direction by Alice Ray
- TO THE MAX: photography by Paolo Barbi, styling by Roberta Pinna
- SPOTLIGHT: fresh faces at M Missoni, Frankie Morello, Rentrayage, Arturo Obegero and Erika Cavallini
- TOWEL DOWN: photography by Alexander Coggin, styling by Jack Collins
- HANDLE WITH CARE: photography by Sarah Blais, styling by Natacha Voranger
features
- EDITORIAL: the Cosy issue
- BLANKET DISSENT: the box-set politics of the UK. By Joe Kennedy
- CLIPPING: Tyler Thacker, City Birds (For KJ)
- BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: photography by Pietro Cocco, art direction by Alice Ray, styling by Riccardo Linarello
- FIND YOUR COZY: Venkatesh Rao briefs Guy Mackinnon-Little on the “domestic cozy”
- TERMINAL COMFORT: photography by Joe Lai, styling by Jack Collins
- EXPERIENCE TINGLES AND TECHNO-THERAPY: monetised affection, digital intimacy and a new emotional economy of care. By Huw Lemmey
- CLIPPING: Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, Crotchet Coral Reef
- GROUNDED: photography by Toki, styling by Shotaro Yamaguchi
- DISCOVER HAPPINESS INSIDE YOUR GLOOMTH: comfort is at its greatest against a backdrop of hostility. By Will Wiles
- JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: photography by Lucy Alex Mac, styling by Alice Ray
- RELAX, ENJOY THE HEAT, AUTOMATE YOUR COMFORT by Nicole Starosielski
- CLIPPING: Laurie Simmons, First Bathroom/Woman Kneeling
- REAL EXISTING SOFTNESS: Eleni Poulou at the ICA. By Christabel Stewart
- CLIPPING: Dhaka Literary Festival
- RADIO TANK: cocktails and spreadsheets. By Guy Mackinnon-Little, illustration by Benjamin Filby
- TUNE IN TO AWKWARDNESS, ROMANCE AND SELF-ACTUALISATION: the uncanny comforts of Terrace House. by Kyle Chayka
- CLIPPING: Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled
- LOUNGE LIZARDS: photography by Nagib Chtaib, styling by Thomas Davis
- PLAYTIME!: the wry satire of Jacques Tati. By Tom Ridgway
- THE POWER OF NONE: unfathomable complexity and new mediums of the divine. By Diana Pasulka
- BRICOLAGE: photography by Boris Camaca, styling by Hamish Wirgman
- TAKE SOME TIME TO LOVE THE UNCUTE ANIMAL by Rachael Allen
- CLIPPING: Art Deco by the Sea
- ENTERED A SNAKE: photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Audrey Hu
talks
- PAUL B. PRECIADO: “There is an infinite multiplicity of living bodies whose existence has to be recognised beyond the binary”
- GLENN LOWRY: “It is a combination of art and public that makes the Museum, because in all of those earlier versions of museums, it was about the objects only”
- RANA FOROOHAR: “If you think capital can move across borders, just think about what data can do”
- CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS: “It’s a mistake to think that bans are an effective strategy for combating the far right; they might even backfire and make it worse”
- AGNIESZKA KURANT: “The more sophisticated technologies we develop to compute and predict the future, the more serious uncomputables we create”
- LAURA HUERTAS MILLAN: “Fiction is an intrinsic layer of reality. It comes naturally into everything”
- ALENKA ZUPANCIC: “Sexuality is constitutively out-of-its-place, fragmented and dispersed”
- ALEXANDER ZEVIN: “There is a necessary relationship between the expansion of capitalism, markets, investment opportunities and war”
- TAI SHANI: “The medieval conception of history and myth is very blurred; there’s no real distinction between the two”
- CARROLL BAKER: “I like to study people; it is very close to acting. You need to know people to bring a character to life”
- MIRROR, MIRROR: Memory Lost, Nan Goldin
