features

• EDITORIAL: the Pressure issue
• FLASH FICTION by Max Porter
• TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT: the binding fictions of deadlines are pacts against the splintering of reality, which might explain why we seem to keep missing them of late. By Lauren Oyler
• MINDS RISING, SPIRITS TUNING: at the outset of a new age of cognitive capitalism, the 13th edition of the Gwangju Biennale moves beyond the false universalisms of Western modernity to ask after the true nature of intelligence
• SELF-ASSEMBLY: un-discovering the individual. By Daisy Hildyard
• EXFLORA: photography by Jean-Vincent Simonet, Styling by Salomé Poloudenny
• JILL MAGID in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
• OUT OF SYNC, IN THEIR OWN TIME: text by Caroline Issa, photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
• UK76: Victor Burgin’s seminal investigation of image and text
• DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE: by accident or design, neoliberalism has throttled the arts without needing to resort to outright censorship. By Juliet Jacques
• ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PRESENT: photography by Jules Moskovtchenko, styling by Hamish Wirgman
• 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
• EVERYDAY ROMANCE: photography by Chus & Greg, styling by Patricia Villirillo
• THE OTHER MOTHER: the idealised fiction of the hard-working immigrant. By Xiaowei Wang
• TIDE SALON traces our contemporary vocablurary of migration and belonging to histories of travel, trade, and colonialism in the early modern world
• STUDIO CIAO: photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Elisa Voto
• THE END OF LIBERALISM: the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences. By Byung-Chul Han
• INFLATIONARY PRESSURES: photography by Xiaopeng Yuan, styling by Liu Xiao
• BINAURAL BEATBOX: digital drugs and the strange history of binaural beats. Text by Guy Mackinnon-Little, illustration by Benjamin Filby