The Daily Dispatch includes reviews and critical readings of books, exhibitions, photography projects, architecture, independent publications and cultural initiatives. Each contribution connects individual work to a wider system of production, politics, technology and material culture.
Updated with new content every day, The Daily Dispatch extends Lampoon’s editorial research beyond the rhythm of the print edition. It is a continuous journal of contemporary culture — grounded in evidence, direct observation and an interest in how things are made.
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Who said carbon is a market? When offsetting becomes upsetting
“Outsourcing the consequences of your own bad decisions is not the path.” The illusion of carbon neutrality: why climate change can’t be solved by buying carbon offsets and outsourcing responsibility.
Gucci’s path toward sustainable circularity
Reforestation through One Tree Planted and resale on The RealReal, Gucci's ongoing commitment to social and environmental responsibility
What does it mean to be Magnifico? a shooting by Nick Knight from Lampoon Archive
No one ever loved a man sitting on his throne, detached from the earth, soaked in his clouds – Nick Knight defining Magnifico mastering his art and photography
Transitioning – When tigers used to smoke even monkeys used to fall
«Will the mask have a conventional role or can it be a revealer?» -Louis Canadas considers a mask as a processor for a new personality
Who’s afraid of the father? Camille Lévêque rewrites paternal mythologies
Through collage, family archives, advertising images, and political propaganda, photographer Camille Lévêque dismantles the traditional father figure, exposing patriarchal myths in À la recherche du père
Setchu: Satoshi Kuwata on Japanese principles and the leather supply chain
“I traveled to Zimbabwe, met the people, saw the process. I didn’t want an abstract version of sustainability.” An interview with Setchu’s Satoshi Kuwata on materials and transparent sourcing
Sex and politics make us dirty: Peter Cameron
Writing without filters, dirty minds, clean pages: conversation with American writer Peter Cameron about sex, shame, and the stories we hide
What Braids Mean Across Time? Heritage, Resistance, and Reinvention
From ancestral codes to fashion runways, braids stand as cultural language and visual archive, linking heritage with reinvention
Post-plastic imaginaries: Sarah Schönfeld and the ecological politics of cleansing rituals
Ideas of cleanliness frequently conceal underlying cultural fears: anxieties about control, the illusion of purity, and the unsettling reality of the body as an open, porous system. Schönfeld responds to...
Stockholm’s all-wood district: building with wood reduces carbon emissions and stores it
A city of wood: though there has been recent interest in Biophilic Urbanism and the existence of wooden structures, no project of this size has been created out of this...
Marie Davidson and the not sustainable logistics of the entertainment industry
In City of Clowns, Marie Davidson dismantles the pressure to always be visible: flights, luggage, check-in, endless lines, delays, cancellations
Marcell Dettmann on the cost of integrity: artistic credibility still matters in electronic music
In an industry where hype often overshadows substance, artistic integrity remains a radical act. Marcell Dettmann on rejecting major deals to embracing imperfection
Armani’s story is an explanation of work ethic
Giorgio Armani, the fashion paradox and the fight against consumerism: we don't need to produce in a continuous flow, we have to teach our customers to buy less
Rebekah Campbell, Colliding with the Walls
New York City, USA. Photography Rebekah Campbell, Styling Cece Liu
Durk Dehner – Sex between men is just plain manly, no matter what position one takes
Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation dissects one of the many elements that define the queer as a community and a tribe, the roots of the sexual attraction the...
Linder Sterling: the ultimate recycler of pornographic imagery
An interview with artist Linder Sterling – armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, she cuts away at imagery from magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism
What does “editorial” mean? Redefining an overused word
A publisher is someone who guarantees the context and the trust that this context promises: the publisher allows creative talent to freely express themselves always within a shared message
A Sixties villa show the rough character of Atlantic France
Far from the clichés of the Côte d’Azur, a house becomes a stage for reinvention. In the windswept Basque town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Marie Schuller captures her mother in her house
Pol Anglada on Tom of Finland, Anonymous Johns, and Queer Eroticism
From Tumblr awakenings to Tom of Finland’s ghosts, Pol Anglada’s drawings spit in the face of sanitized queerness and dare to stay raw—hair, sweat, rough bodies and fragile intimacies sketched...
Beyond the Individual: Gabriele Rosati, between flesh and screen
From body to surface: a visual investigation by Gabriele Rosati into the transformation of identity and energy through technology, digital presence, and human contact
On resisting digital noise: Torus is building an underground sound
From refusing OpenAI's Super Bowl ad to building underground sound installations and surviving bureaucratic shutdowns—Torus on rejecting algorithmic culture and improvising through failure
New York City civic power and urban planning: neighborhoods contested
From Elizabeth Street Garden to Willets Point, and through East Harlem, Port Morris, and East New York: urban transformations in New York's neighborhoods
Clara 3000: the music industry’s demand for branding is unsustainable
For DJ Clara 3000, the dancefloor is a space for political resistance — a radical alternative to a music industry increasingly driven by branding, repetition, and the erosion of artistic...
Florence: from cultural heritage to an open-air stage of fakes
Photographer Louis De Belle investigates how mass tourism, obsessive visual reproduction, and urban trompe-l’œil strategies have contributed to a distorted identity of Florence
Glyptic: an ancient craft saved from oblivion by one Maître d’Art, Philippe Nicolas
A jewel depends on the level of exhaustion of its creator. Métiers d’art: the art of carving stones and gems in high jewelry – calling it ‘glyptic’ may be reductive,...
Fire Island: America’s gay community utopia has changed
New York’s gay mecca used to be only for the community – now straight families are undermining the dream. An interview with Slava Mogutin and Gio Black Peter
Isabelle Wenzel, art and clay: a legacy of feminist and ecological practices
Transforming blocks of dry clay into performative terrain: physical improvisation, self-timer photography, and material friction shape Isabelle Wenzel’s creative process
Daniel King’s road trip from New Jersey to Upstate New York: his images endure
Late photographer Daniel King’s work stands as a document of his approach: quiet, exact, wide open. The road trip wasn’t about reaching a destination
Alex Huanfa Cheng and the green regeneration in Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt as a case study for urban rewilding in Europe, where past industrial landscapes are giving way to green regeneration, spontaneous vegetation, and unplanned ecosystems reclaiming built environments
The Tunisian Shepherd – learning to dismiss the luxury of waste
Photographer Akila Berjaoui and Clément LaGuardia uncovered the quiet resilience of Tunisia’s shepherds — revealing a raw portrait of ancestral living, slow fashion
Lorenzo Zandri discloses the Vegetal Resistance of the streets of London
Lorenzo Zandri captures the spontaneous vegetation growing across London’s built environment—plants that resist control
Is preservation without use is another form of decay?
Photographer Allegra Martin explores the contradictions of modern architecture—not as static monuments to an ideal past, but as evolving, inhabited structures shaped by time, use and political change
Daniel Roché: sex work and political performance
How the realities of sex work, political performance, digital self-surveillance and aesthetic anxiety expose the contradictions at the heart of contemporary identity
Bobby Beethoven: Music is the One Spell Humanity Hasn’t Totally Ruined Yet
I’m not living an environmentally conscious life. I eat factory-farmed animals. I’ve flown to the other side of the planet to DJ one event, not even slept and flown directly...
Angelo Moratti calls for a more human Capitalism: purpose is the new power
One year after leaving his family’s oil business, Angelo Moratti delivers a speech in Milan on how fame, ego, and tech hubris are eroding capitalism—an interview
Alpine resilience through grounded design
Courmayeur Climate Hub: where the landscape thinks and architecture listens
Who are the Boomers? The ones who dismiss the word “sustainability”
Sustainability is an overused word, dangerously close to losing its meaning — and Boomers are quick to dismiss it, even though it remains the only reliable code of critical thinking
Terraformae and the raw vitality of terracotta: design must get its hands dirty
Terraformae explores terracotta’s circular potential—recyclable, binder-free, and with up to 70% lower CO₂ emissions than cement—through design-led experimentation and process optimization
Alex Black and the Performance of Beauty in an Age of Visual Saturation
Through staged photography and AI-generated symbols, Canadian director Alex Black reimagines identity and desire—while exposing the unsustainable systems behind how beauty is made and sold.
Under Suspended Rupture: Community and Isolation Beneath LaGuardia
David Rothenberg’s long-term visual study of Landing Lights Park exposes how the proximity of landing planes shapes the lived experience of East Elmhurst—where infrastructure divides bodies and communities
Why is linen a noble fiber? A short or global supply chain: from Normandy to Italy
From the Terre de Lin cooperative to the manufacturing of the Albini Group: European linen and its traceability, between crop rotation, varietal selection and industrial weaving
Maria Luisa Frisa and the political value of fashion
Fashion needs a political message: activism, disruption, obsession – fashion is no longer just a creative matter. The responses of Maria Luisa Frisa
There’s no room for maximalist lines in studioutte’s work
Patrizio Gola and Guglielmo Giagnotti reject sustainability as a trend: it should be inherent to design. Archetypes, simple forms, and a refusal of decor
Indigo Identity: Stacey Gillian Abe’s Exploration of Memory
Through materials and autobiographical themes, Stacey Gillian Abe creates works that examine Black identity and reconstruct historical narratives
Home Fetish: a Visual Exploration of Obsession, Comfort, and Domestic Rituals
Through the lens of Lorenzo Venturini: Home Fetish unveils the ambiguous relationship between the self and domestic space, where comfort becomes obsession and everyday objects turn into fetishes
Fashion Weeks must be about rules and regulations – not about parties and glam
The more fashion capitals jump on the so-called sustainability requirements, rules and regulations, the more critics begin to wonder if a sustainable fashion week can ever exist
