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Gboyega Odubanjo
Urban fabric
Faisal Devji on mercenaries
As Above, So Below
A pearl of wisdom
Chance encounters
In your eyeline
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Summer Issue

GRACE AND ANNIHILATION: László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Claudia Steinberg
STROKE OF THE CANE: Gucci Bamboo hangs in the balance
STEVEN PHILLIPS-HORST AND LILY MAROTTA: “On the podcast, we see the world as a place imbued with performance”
IS THE NOVEL A BOURGEOIS FORM?: semiotics studio Axis Mundi break down the new publishing paradigm
UNCANNY VALLEY: Hollywood is calling. Photography by Pietro Cocco, styling by Tea Barbagallo
LA SALADE NIÇOISE: delicious nails by Chanel
WHAT'S GOING ON IN LITERARY PUBLISHING?: fiction editors weigh in
CATHERINE OPIE: “Photography as a medium makes it difficult not to create constant clichés”
HORIBIL CREATCHERS: living on the edgelands. Photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, art direction and styling by Alice Ray
ROSANNA MCLAUGHLIN: “These days we live under the tyranny of relatable first-person writing”
MANIFESTO: how does the stylist create meaning?
MICHAEL BRACEWELL: “I don’t know if there’s any point trying to write a literary work unless you actually need to do it”
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TANKtv highlights

GBOYEGA ODUBANJO:
the Barbican Young Poet reads from his upcoming collection
EATING YOUR WORDS
Caroline Issa reads from the editor's letter
DARK AND DEEP
Sir Mark Rylance on the politics of place
TOUCHING GLASS:
a new season of artists’s films, only on TANKtv
HERMENEUTICAL MISCHIEF:
Johanna Hedva and Harry Dodge discuss Hedva's new novel
THE EDUCATION OF JEREMY CORBYN
a three-part series on school, protest, and hopes for the National Education Service
HUSBAND
directors’ commentary with Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum
FELINE UNDER THE WEATHER:
Artangel presents four new short films from artist Abi Palmer
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
AN APPETITE FOR ECONOMICS:
an interview with Ha-Joon Chang
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Writers reading

DISPATCHES FROM THE DIASPORA
Gary Younge reads from his essay collection on race and resistance
CRAFT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Joanna Walsh on the digital world of craftwork
THE FANTASTIC REAL
Olivia Erlanger takes us on a fantastic artistic spaceflight
NOTHING SPECIAL:
Nicole Flattery reads from her novel about a teenage typist in Andy Warhol’s New York
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
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As Above, So Below

RAIN WU:
mapping the material world
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW:
Rain Wu, Mariana Sanchez Salvador and Kyriaki Goni screen their films on TANKtv
GAIA TODAY:
Gary Zhexi Zhang, Sougwen Chung and Asad Raza discuss cybernetics and cyanobacteria
THE STORY OF GAIA:
Gaia Vince, Merlin Sheldrake, Edna Bonhomme and Daisy Hildyard on interconnectivity
GARY ZHEXI ZHANG:
flirting with disaster
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW:
two days of world-bending theory at the Science Gallery with Ignota Books
LUCIA PIETROIUSTI:
the world is our oyster
ERIN ROBINSONG:
a planet in hot water
GAIA VINCE:
radical solutions from the environmental journalist
SOUGWEN CHUNG:
the man machine
ASAD RAZA:
the politics and personability of soil
KYRIAKI GONI:
on talking to plants
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Art and artistry

QUALEASHA WOOD: TL;DR
The pixelated tapestries of Qualeasha Wood
GROUP PSYCHOSIS:
an interview with artist Silvia Kolbowski
COMPOST-MODERNISM:
Jack Tennant’s too mulch to handle
LINK IN THE CHAIN
Alighieri’s new collection tells family stories through photographs
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
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TANK music

L'RAIN
an interview with the New York composer on dead dogs and contrition
BUNNY HOOVA
beguiling electroacoustic environments and vocoder kitsch
NIKKI NAIR
sizzling electronica and a party-for-everybody ethos
MODEL/ACTRIZ
Carly Rae Jepsen edits and rubbery techno from New York noise-rockers
KAI CAMPOS/MOUNT KIMBIE:
a mix and an interview from the Mount Kimbie member
ZULI
martial percussion and corrosive breakcore workouts
LUCA CARLUCCIO:
blissed-out Balearic from the Berlin label head
MAZE:
an infectiously silly whirlwind of house and pop
SUEUGA:
piledriving, scorched earth techno
SARAHSSON:
harsh noise grotesquerie meets celestial ambience
TARA CLERKIN TRIO:
free association from the Bristolian noisemakers
SAFETY TRANCE:
dancefloor assaults from the Arca collaborator
DOGHEADSURIGERI
gabber grandeur from the Oramics collective member
HEITH:
exploratory electro-acoustic environments from the Milanese artist
KAT DUMA:
deceptively mellow magic from the Toronto-based experimentalist
XIN:
primordial neurofunk and swampy hardcore
KUSH ARORA/ONLY NOW:
blistering bashment from the Bay Area producer
TONY NJOKU:
piano magic over the past century
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

GBOYEGA ODUBANJO
three poems on civic identity, gentrification and diasporic masculinities
GAIA TODAY
Sougwen Chung, Asad Raza and Gary Zhexi Zhang on Lynn Margulis' legacy
THE STORY OF GAIA:
Gaia Vince, Edna Bonhomme, Daisy Hildyard and Merlin Sheldrake on Gaia theory
PODCAST | HIRED HELP
Faisal Devji considers the use of mercenaries
PODCAST | GRASS ROOTS
Mark Rylance on the in-between
PODCAST | LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Caroline Issa reads the Summer editor's letter
PODCAST | NECK OF THE WOODS
Fridtjof Ryder talks his debut film Inland
PODCAST | GARY YOUNGE
the broadcaster on identity politics and the media establishment
PODCAST | INTRODUCING THE SUMMER READER
Tina reads about our revamp
PODCAST | ON THE FENCE
Faisal Devji on neutrality and the new global order
PODCAST | DIVIDE AND CONQUER
Faisal Devji on civil wars and the illusion of peace
PODCAST | WON'T GO PRIVATELY
a discussion with Paul Turner of Integrate Private Schools
PODCAST | REBEL REBEL
Sammy Wright on the bad kids of Sunderland
PODCAST | CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH
Joanna Walsh on the digital world of craftwork
PODCAST | WELCOME OUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORD:
machine learning with ChatGPT
PODCAST | SPACED OUT:
Olivia Erlanger imagines new worlds
PODCAST | SEX IN THE CITY:
Charlotte Shane has mixed emotions at the strip club
PODCAST | MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO:
12 Monkeys and time warps with Paul Franz
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

THE TRUMP DOCTRINE:
TANK’s editor-in-chief, Masoud Golsorkhi, on the American president’s new and crude credo that is redefining the nation
SAVAGE MESSIAH:
a collection of anti-gentrification zines from Laura Grace Ford
UNDOING IMPUNITY by V. Geetha
NO WOMAN IS AN ISLAND: in fecund French Polynesia Lili Owen Rowlands is cast adrift among the omnipresent honeymooners and the colony’s torrid history
WILLIAM BASINKSI remembers a poignant backdrop to 9/11
SUN KING: Christian Lacroix’s incredible visions transcend into the fashion industry’s pragmatic mood
JESMYN WARD: “Every time something happened, the larger culture dominated the narrative about that person’s death”
THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ABDULLAH OCALAN by Abdullah Öcalan
WAYS OF SEEING: pictures of pictures of pictures
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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