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