ELECTRA Magazine Issue 18 (City, Countryside) is out now. The subject “City, Countryside” is key to understanding our times, a theme which touches all areas of political, economic, social and cultural life.
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ELECTRA Magazine Issue 17 (Football) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Football has grown into an unavoidable social fact, a powerful industrial complex that has expanded beyond stadiums and championships to invade our daily lives.
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ELECTRA Magazine Issue 16 (Identity(ies)) is out now. Identity(ies) is one of the great political questions of our time and the central theme of the 16th issue of Electra, marking the fourth year of this project.
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ELECTRA Magazine Issue 15 (The Numbers) is here. In a numerical and digital age in which quantification has become the main instrument of governance, alongside generalised evaluation as a means of managing material and human resources, Electra dedicates the dossier of issue 15 to Numbers.
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ELECTRA Magazine Issue 14 (Contemporary Art) is here. “Cultural and economic changes have transformed art itself, which has become an integral part of economic, tourism, cultural and social activities, to which it transmits its own value.” writes Yves Michaud in “On Contemporary Art”, the dossier of Electra 14. From a perspective of art criticism and the sociology and economics of art, this dossier considers aesthetic questions and artistic forms, but also the functioning of this system and its determinations.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 13 (Food) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. The dossier in issue 13 of ELECTRA is dedicated to Food, at a time when food has become a worldwide trend, culture and cult.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 11 (Fame) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. What does fame mean in our time? And who are these famous men and women who now want to impose their image, set trends, be models? Fame is the topic of the dossier in issue 11 of Electra.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 10 (Work) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Work, and the future of work, are the topics covered in the dossier of the tenth issue of Electra magazine. This dossier approaches the subject through very diverse perspectives, and includes contributions by André Barata, Yann Moulier-Boutang, António Guerreiro, Helen Hester, José Nuno Matos, Jason Read and Nick Srnicek.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 9 (Speed) is here. Issue 9 marks the second anniversary of Electra magazine. “Speed has changed and determined everything: politics and communication, the economy and society, science and cybernetics, art and love, food and sleep, sickness and health, life and death”, one may read in the magazine’s editorial.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 8 (Memory and Forgetting) is here. “Today, memory and forgetting have gained the sounds and silences that make up the voice of our time,” one can read in the editorial of Electra’s eighth issue, announcing the theme of this edition’s dossier: Memory and Forgetting.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 7 (Animals) is out now. This edition’s press file focuses on the topic of “Animals” – which rights, limits and duties do we owe them? The “animal issue” has emerged as one of the great banners of contemporary society.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 6 (Money) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. This edition presents a portfolio by artist and writer Edmund de Waal, who also designed the cover for this issue, with images and texts about his exhibition held at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale, and an unpublished notebook by architect Siza Vieira.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 5 (Youth) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Youth – both in its eternal and ephemeral forms – is the central theme to the fifth issue of Electra magazine.
ELECTRA Magazine Issue 2 (Stupidity) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Stupidity is the central theme in the second edition of Electra magazine. Social and political, collective and individual stupidity. The stupidity of the times, because – and quoting Flaubert – “there is stupidity in every era, but each era has its own kind of stupidity”.