ELECTRA Magazine Issue 17 (Football)

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. This sport has strong ties to the world of politics and is the crystallisation of extreme disparities in economic and media power. It is to this sprawling world, marked by heroes and hero worship, that we dedicate issue 17 of Electra with texts by Bernardo Futscher Pereira, João Sedas Nunes, José Florenzano, José Neves, Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, Marc Perelman, Marcos Cardão e António Guerreiro.

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ELECTRA Magazine is an international publication on contemporary culture that reflects on our world and our time, often looking at what is hidden or implied in them. It relies on collaborations from the most renowned authors based in various parts of the world, who bring their diverse experiences and cultural fields to each of the topics covered in the magazine with critical and creative insight. This magazine is meant to be read and seen, because it is as discerning with its images as it is with its words.

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Also in the spotlight in this issue are the interview and portfolio sections featuring renowned American painter Alex Katz. In his 95th year, as important retrospectives of his work are being organised at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid, Katz speaks to Juan Manuel Bonet, former director of the Reina Sofia Museum, about painting and painters, colour and light, life and its places.

James Wood, considered by many to be the most acclaimed, dominant and feared literary critic of recent decades, is interviewed in the “First Person” section. In conversation with Afonso Dias Ramos, Wood reflects on his life and work as a reader, critic, teacher and writer.

In this year that marks the centenary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Summer 2022 edition of Electra features an evocation of this major figure of 20th century Italy by Vinícius Nicastro Honesko, Bruno Moroncini and Carla Benedetti, all noted authors of essays and studies on this iconic contemporary filmmaker, writer, essayist and intellectual.

Youssef Rakha is a writer, journalist and literary critic whose work has been widely recognised and awarded. Photographers and editors André Príncipe and José Pedro Cortes met Rakha in Cairo, the city where he was born and lives, and spoke of politics, religion, art, travel and life in a feature in the “Planisphere” section in which words and images feed off each other.

The title of one of Vermeer’s most famous works is also the name of a section in this magazine: “View of Delft”. Here, José Manuel dos Santos writes about the work View of Delft, the city that is represented in it, Delft, and the city where it can be seen, The Hague.

For the “Book of Hours” section of Electra 17, Pedro Neves Marques, Portugal’s representative at this year’s Venice Biennale with his Vampires in Space project, builds from this narrative installation a diary consisting of evocations and meditations, addressing issues of gender identity, sexuality and queer reproduction.

Also in this issue, Italian sociologist Paolo Perulli presents a genealogy and history of the concept of “creatives”; on the occasion of Gustave Flaubert’s bicentenary, Ana Rocha analyses a key episode from the novel Madame Bovary; poet and teacher Golgona Anghel interprets a quote by the writer Emil Cioran; Afonso Dias Ramos writes about one of the most anticipated books of the last decade The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow; and Régis Salado comments on the word “Narrative”.

Details: ELECTRA Magazine Issue 17 (Football)

256 pages, 27 x 20 cm