Lampoon 25
The Transparency Issue

The Transparency Issue, Lampoon 25 – against cancel culture towards honesty and freedom of speech

/ Lampoon 25, The Transparency Issue: ‘Cancel Me’
Cancel Culture is the market force’s latest attempt to annihilate the masses: a battle that has been going on since the Middle Ages. When Transparency is called for, we seem to assume a lack of Honesty. It should be taken for granted – as long as it refers to practices of common sense and fairness. What we are demanding is transparency in messaging, in stories and narratives, in intentions, in advantages and benefits. Everything can and should be revealed; there is nothing that is hidden that will remain so.

/ Featured Talents
Visual contributions: Daniel Roché and Niki Pauls’ watching Lolita waiting for a war scene; Isabelle Wenzel’s investigations of abstract forms of the body and mimesis; Marie Tomanova’s cumming, not coming: a tribute to womanhood, comradery, and soulmates; Florence Mann’s pure shores: an ode to the dark romance of the pre-Raphaelites; Ruggiero Cafagna’s humanist realism that exhibits our fragilities and sensuality; Menelik Puryear’s portrayal of a magical world; Spyros Rennt and Roberto Patella’s playful nudity; Alex Black’s collection of Montrealer creativity; and tales of Honesty and Transparency by Rasmus Weng Karlsen; Javier Ruiz; Jack Johnstone and Armando Bruno; Pascale Arnaud; Louis de Roffignac.

Dialogues in Lampoon 25 – The Transparency Issue: Design studio Formafantasma; British architect Joseph Grima; founder and creative director of EcoAge Livia Firth; labor rights expert Auret van Heerden; Bangladeshi labor leader Nazma Akter; British writer, journalist, broadcaster, and curator Ekow Eshun; activist and anti-racist feminist scholar Dr. Noémi Michel; associate professor of Architectural History Lucy Maulsby; David Spriggs; Regina Schuman; Andrea Baronchelli; Mauro Martino; Robert Norton; Emanuele Dascanio; Lisa White; Jenna Gribbon.

/ Lampoon Magazine: available worldwide in selected stores
Lampoon Magazine is concerned with chronicles and reportages in the cultural field: fashion, design, crafting, and creativity are some examples of Lampoon’s core interests. Available exclusively and worldwide in target concept stores, newsstands, and bookshops.

Lampoon #25, The Transparency Issue
/ 3 cover versions
/ 432 pages
/ softcover
/ 2,2 kg
/ 24×32 cm
/ english

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