Real Review #11
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- Category: Magazine
- Topic: Culture, Literature
- Publisher: Real Review
- Country: UK
- Language: English
- Release: 2021
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Stapling
- Size: 11.5 x 26 cm
WHAT TO BELIEVE
The collective trauma of the pandemic has become an excuse for global capital to accelerate the total commodification of everyday life. Everything is for sale. There is more merchandise than love, more sponsored content than truth. No society in human history has demanded so many people be such active participants in producing the contemporary. No contemporary has ever been so aggressively monetised. Many amongst us have decided to check out from reality altogether; preferring to inhabit tailor-made fantasies and simulations. But only children believe that closing their eyes renders them invisible to monsters.
What to believe? We interview physicist CARLO ROVELLI on the modern concept of time. Philosopher TIMOTHY MORTON pens a love song to non-human life. Artist HELEN MARTEN contributes a multiple in the form of a scratch card. YUK HUI reviews Chinese technics, while KELLER EASTERLING reviews designing reality. Economist CHIARA DI LEONE reviews negative interest rates. An anonymous writer from domyessayright.com reviews DAVID GRAEBER'S book Bullshit Jobs. MAISA IMAMOVIC reviews product styling, with photography by CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS. GABRIELLE de la PUENTE reviews Long Covid, plus much more.
WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE TODAY
Real Review is a contemporary culture magazine based in London and is "what it means to live today".
Each issue tracks our ever-changing zeitgeist through a "current mood". Using the review format, Real Review explores power relations through a close analysis of the material world. Real Review is a perpetual attempt at describing reality as it might actually exist, and reality as we experience it.
