Purple Magazine Issue 40: The Revolutions Issue

Fall/Winter 2023, the Revolutions issue, with twenty-one covers and Cindy Sherman on the first of them.

Alain Badiou writes on art and the possibility of the impossible, Paul B. Preciado on electronic heroin, Byung-Chul Han on the idiots' revolution, Val Plumwood on angels in the ecosystem, Bayo Akomolafe on what climate collapse asks of us, and The Invisible Committee on finding each other. Aleph Molinari interviews Merlin Sheldrake, Daniel Pinchbeck talks to Douglas Rushkoff and Bernardo Kastrup, and Olivier Zahm with Molinari to Neville Wakefield and Cyrill Gutsch. Steven Klein photographs Hari Nef, Juergen Teller shoots Balenciaga, Richard Kern shoots Guess USA, Cameron McCool shoots Milla Jovovich in Gucci, Kira Bunse shoots Caroline Polachek in Givenchy and Takashi Homma shoots Louis Vuitton.

John Giorno, Dash Snow, Charles Ray, Anthea Hamilton, Mariko Mori and De Wain Valentine round out an issue that puts ecological argument and fashion photography on facing pages.