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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • The Groove Is Not Trivial

    Midlife crisis or late vocation? Alasdair Fraser, a successful industrial engineer, changes course and chooses the violin. From California, he starts
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  • The Night in All Things

    The light bulb had already confused our biorhythms. Surrounded by luminous screens even in the bedroom, the threshold between night and day, dream and
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  • The Cognitive Era

    Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how. Screens
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  • August at Akiko’s

    The musician Alex Zhang Hungtai returns to Hawaii. He’s been away for a long time and is completely uprooted. The older woman Akiko takes him…
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  • How They Got Over

    Rock ‘n’ roll’s roots aren’t just rhythm and blues, but go much further back to 1930s gospel quartet music. A surfeit of musical
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  • The Shape of Water

    Guillermo del Toro’s latest magic-realist balancing act won the Golden Lion in Venice. This utterly romantic, Cold War monster film combines acut
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  • Nematodes

    Peter Burr is fascinated by endlessly mutating labyrinths. For this digital animation about the networked life of worms he collaborated with a parasit
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  • Rose Gold

    Richly layered, Rose Gold focuses on Apple’s Rose Gold iPhone, tracking how the phone acts as a talisman of desire for objects, people, power, and…
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  • Milford Graves Full Mantis

    A poetic visual essay on renowned American free-jazz drummer Milford Graves. Propelled by Graves’ voice and beats, we are introduced to his life, way
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  • An Infinite Loop for Resistance ft. Aldo Tambellini

    This is a media-fashioned attack aimed at the disturbing omnipotence of hyperrealism and fascist banality – best symbolised by Donald Trump’s burning
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