Real Review #18

"What it means to live today" Real Review delivers sharp cultural commentary, investigating the politics of space and power relations through thoughtful, unexpected pieces. 

"To pretend means to "lay claim" – to stretch forward and take hold of what we want, as if it already existed, or were already ours. To pretend is thus to call forth another reality and create truth through the power of conviction alone. It is fashionable to ridicule performative gestures as ineffective posturing. Yet this is literally the only way that new societies come into being." 

Issue #18 features Günseli Yalcinkaya on Reality Shifting, Jack Self on Retrocausality, Ana Nicolaescu on Slopwork or the Work of Slop, Ivan Self on Larping an Empire, Pierce Myers on Mesoeconomy of Fire, Kwan Queeni Li on Weeds, Jenny Barcelos on Careless Whisper, 1999, James Bridle on There Is No Off Grid, and much more. Plus! Interviews with Meredith Whittaker and Álvaro F. Pulpeiro.