The magazine’s heyday — its century — as the arbiter of culture is over, and so it is time to pay tribute to its voice, aesthetic, influence, frequent tackiness, and monumental ego as an object of envy.
Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and the place it holds in our shared cultural history.
A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.
Former restaurant critic Brian Duff examines the restaurant at a critical moment and argues that engaging and creating shared meaning with others across the table offers a path toward the renewal of waning social and democratic capacities.
In an age where our attention is pulled in so many different directions and it feels almost impossible to properly engage with anything, how do we truly notice what we need to?
Renowned philosopher Roger Scruton draws on his own experience as a counter-culture presence in public life to explain conservatism in a sceptical age.
In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays,Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress in order to fight for something authentically better.
This second book in Žižek’s Essays sees Slavoj Žižek utilise Lenin's 'zero point' formula as model for responding to the antagonisms of the global order.
