TANK MAGAZINE | Future Perfect, Spring 2018 | Issue 74 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
- FAANG DOWN by Masoud Golsorkhi
- EDITORIAL by Caroline Issa
- FASHION FORESIGHT: spring/summer 2018 foretold. Styling by Caroline Issa, photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
- AN ETERNAL BLOOM: the delicate iconoclasm of Gucci’s newest scent
- EXECUTIVE JOY: objects of use, reimagined by Hermès
- MATERIAL WORLD: the future of fabric. Photography by Paolo Barbi, styling by Luca Balzarini and Andrea Volonté
- HIGH FIDELITY: his master’s choice. Photography by Paolo Barbi, styling by Luca Balzarini and Andrea Volonté
- CLEAR CHOICES: clarity of vision. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, set design and styling by Alice Ray
features
- EDITORIAL: Future Perfect
- FLASH FICTION by Nadifa Mohamed
- WHY COSMISM? WHY NOW? by Justin E.H. Smith
- BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER by Rose George
- REPTOID HYPHOTHESIS photography by Boris Camaca, styling by Hamish Wirgman
- THE BEAUTIFUL WALL by Douglas Murphy
- NEOM: tomorrow's dystopia by Nesrine Malik
- A SHORT HISTORY OF POPPY MUSIC by Dean Kissick, illustration by Jiye Kim
- FEAR OF A STARBUCKS PLANET by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- MEN ARE OVER by Malu Halasa
- HELLO, VITALIK BUTERIN interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, introduction by Jehan Chu
- THE LACUSTRINE by Laura McLean-Ferris
- PATTERN, COLOUR, PROCESS: a vision of MIU MIU by Paul Rousteau and Benoît Bèthume
- ANGLE OF APPROACH photography by Thomas Cooksey, styling by Bobby Hook
- OMENS by Peter Lyle
- EVENT HORIZON by Quentin Lacombe
- Masoud Golsorkhi on THOM BROWNE, photography by Jody Rogac, styling by Jessica Willis
- THE ASCETIC PILGRIMAGE OF AXEL VERVOORDT by Nick Seaton
- YUK HUI: A THOUSAND COSMOTECHNICS interview by Giovanni Menegalle, photography by Hudson Hayden
- WARM BODY photography by Gabby Laurent, styling by Hamish Wirgman
- INVENTING TOMORROW: THE RISE OF THE TECH CONFERENCE by Jan-Peter Westad
- CONNECTING PEOPLE photography by Rosie Marks, styling by Laura Vartiainen
- DEEP FUTURES by Uzma Z. Rizvi
- THE AVATAR SYNDROME photography by Thomas McCarty, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- WEDDING ALBUM OF MARTIN KIPPENBERGER AND ELFIE SEMOTAN by Carl Williams
- JAPANESE MONKEYS FUCKING JAPANESE DEER by Tod Wodicka
- STREET FIGHTER photography by David Luraschi, styling by Dogukan Nesanir
talks
- AIHWA ONG: “Asia is home to vast pools of heterogeneous life forms yet to be fully understood or appropriated by science”
- EDWIN KEH: “The average American fashion brand or large company is run by a white male in his fifties; he doesn't have to think about 2030”
- LIZZIE BORDEN: “I intended Born in Flames as agitprop”
- MARLIES WIRTH: “Immortality is not free, neither is participation or equal opportunity”
- TRISHA GREGORY: “When we built our bot, we joked that it's almost like 1950s-couture meets modern-day-technology”
- SHU LEA CHEANG: “We can't go online without being tracked, stalked and bombed”
- MARC WARNER: “Machine learning is now above human performance in image and speech recognition”
- PETER FRASE: “I wanted to do something speculative and imaginative, a utopian thought experiment”
- ELYSIA CRAMPTON: “Historically linear models conceal long and ancient channels of resistance”
- ANTON VIDOKLE: “I think the biopolitics of rejuvenation, death and immortality will be very urgent issues in the next decades”
- MIRROR MIRROR: Rineke Dijkstra