Purple Magazine Issue 37: The Future Issue
Spring/Summer 2022, the Future issue, opening with Jean-Luc Nancy's "The Fragile Skin of the World" and running to nineteen covers.
Carlo Rovelli writes on the sources of time, Mark Fisher on acid communism, Jean Baudrillard on tetanized inertia, Hakim Bey on the will to power as disappearance, Marc Augé on individual and collective futures, Adam Greenfield on artificial intelligence, and The Invisible Committee on the world to come. Vivienne Westwood closes the issue. Olivier Zahm interviews Paul B. Preciado, Demna, Eliza Douglas, Tobias Spichtig and George Rouy; Jérôme Sans and Zahm talk to Pierre Huyghe; Aleph Molinari interviews Jon Rafman, Makoto Azuma, Julia Watson and T.J. Demos. Harmony Korine shoots Saint Laurent, Juergen Teller shoots Balenciaga, Takashi Homma shoots Comme des Garçons and Henrik Purienne shoots Courrèges.
Ram Han's digital painting supplies the first cover, and a set of VanMoof bikes customised by Mathias Kiss, Nina Kraviz, André Saraiva and Mei supplies another.