

LYNNE TILLMAN: “I have a little English person inside of me and inside that, a little German man, or an enigma inside a riddle”.SARA HOSSAIN: “Yes, discrimination is embedded in a lot of the colonial legislation that remains”.HAL FOSTER: “I think art remains a site of such discontent, of such pushback, or, perhaps better, a place of hiding in plain sight”.DOUBLE TAKE: photography by Joanna Piotrowska, fashion by Caroline Issa and Nobuko Tannawa.IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS: photography by Lena C.LIGHT BY DESIGN: photography by Osma Harvilahti, styling by Bobby Hook.Tank meets the designers putting craft at the cutting edge A STITCH IN TIME: the hectic pace of fashion is being slowed down by a hands-on revolution.ART POP: delicate, thin, transparent and boundaried arrangements, ready to burst at any time.FROM MILLAIS TO WELLS: a history of science and the business of bubbles, an interview with Simon J.BEHEADED BY IOS: filter bubbles and the feminine touch in the photography of Josephine Pryde.Colin McDowell casts a historical eye on the vagaries and caprices of fashion FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES: an effervescent industry, predicated on impermanence.WESTMINSTER BUBBLE: the UK Parliament’s vote on Syria is only the latest example of its reality-distorting provincialism.TOIL AND TROUBLE: how art can create alternative spaces of resistance within the market logic of the globalised world.WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS: economist Mariana Mazzucato on the “creative destruction” initiated by technological innovation and the brazen “destructive creation” of speculative finance.Yet as Peter Lang argues, these transparent experiments can be as claustrophobic as they are progressive THE BIG BUBBLY: inflatable architecture seems to speak of optimism.SPHERES OF DESTINY: bubbles are the key to understanding how life on this planet evolved.With collapsing trust in global governance, zones and enclaves have come to embody utopian aspirations for the future of statehood. BUBBLE MENTALITY: the intrigue of political experiments.Kai Friese makes his way into the German philosopher’s globalised glasshouse DOUBLE BUBBLE: reading Sloterdijk in New Delhi.PETER SLOTERDIJK: A very brief introduction to the prolific philosopher of spheres.« Back to the latest issue The Bubbles Issue, Spring 2016 | Issue 66
