{"title":"Real Review","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith every issue of Real Review, they ask, \"What does it mean to live today?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"card-desc\"\u003eReal Review is a contemporary culture magazine. Each issue tracks our ever-changing zeitgeist through a \"current mood\". Using the review format, Real Review explores power relations through a close analysis of the material world. Real Review is a perpetual attempt at describing reality as it might actually exist, and reality as we experience it.\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"real-review-15-phantom-of-liberty","title":"Real Review, #15 PHANTOM OF LIBERTY","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism of these events has now driven a wedge between our realities, material and social. The scale and speed of this suffering has destroyed our ability to sustain any belief in the symbolic values of “the international community” and “human rights”. We can no longer even pretend these ideas correlate to any form of reality. This issue of Real Review is dedicated to the current mood, the Phantom of Liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow long has the emperor been naked? We interview cultural theorist SHUMON BASAR on the unwinding of colonial modernity. ELIZABETH II contributes a 1p UK stamp. POSTPOSTPOST asks if jokes can bring down governments. SHAM JAFF reviews the news, while ELIAS TAMER reviews the passport. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL reviews the occupation of water. PIET OUDOLF talks to JACK SELF about being in the garden. CAN SUN presents the perfect lover. DECENTRALIZED AGENCY review public relations, while DEEP reviews the Amazon, and LEA MOREAU reviews the Id. MADDY WEAVERS reviews snooker, AMBER HUSAIN reviews meat, and THEA MCLACHLAN reviews girlfriends. Plus much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Periodically.LA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43229293576328,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0668\/4793\/2552\/files\/Screenshot2025-01-15at8.22.48PM_44d916dd-11dc-447d-845c-a401afdf0cfc.png?v=1737001984"},{"product_id":"real-review-17-extinction-burst","title":"Real Review, #17 EXTINCTION BURST","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn extinction burst occurs when bad behaviour intensifies before stopping. Undesirable qualities can become entrenched through positive reinforcement. But if the world changes and no longer provides us with the same feedback, we lose our minds: to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. Extinction bursts are forms of active denial; refusals to accept the past as gone, and desperate attempts to preserve the potential of an impossible reality. Today, modernity’s worst tendencies return intensified: patriarchy, racism, plutocracy, colonialism, exploitation, rentierism, genocide. Even attempts at redemption, restoration and stasis accelerate the decline.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIs the decline of the West irreversible? We interview YANCEY STRICKLER on creating alternative realities. RICHARD WENTWORTH walks and sends postcards. WENDY BROWN prefaces a new translation of Marx’s Capital. NOAM CHOMSKY is in conversation with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is in conversation with JACK SELF, who reviews Bin Laden and the creative millennial. MADDY WEAVERS cancels out noise. OLUWATOBILOBA AJAYI reviews black satire, while NEO-METABOLISM reviews The Limits to Growth. NOAH GOTLIB watches the American dream crumble. MAX CREASY documents the last disposable vape, while TANJA ENGLEBERTS captures oil at sea. SARAH OWEN and ROSE THEODORA read the stars. STEPHANIE SHERMAN, LUKÁŠ LIKAVČAN and RACHEL PEARL don spacesuits on Earth, while the OFFICE OF APPLIED STRATEGY wears corporate merch. SOPHIA SHEPPARD frees herself as an adult, plus much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Periodically.LA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44584153874568,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0668\/4793\/2552\/files\/Screenshot2025-12-17at6.17.50PM.png?v=1766024324"},{"product_id":"real-review-16-regime-shift","title":"Real Review, #16 REGIME SHIFT","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no snow on Mount Fuji. Any hack will tell you the phase change is here, the restructuring of the world is underway. That would be a relief, like a broken fever. But they are wrong. We are still waiting. This period is merely the static on the skin, the rising pressure and building tension before the impending climax of a deluge. We live under a lavender sky, silver and green; this is the time of unsettled air, heavy with that metallic smell of the earth. Soon the wind will awake, driving the rain forward like a cloud of smoke. The tremendous powers by which our lives are encompassed are stirring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can we prepare for this transformation? We interview professor JONATHAN WHITE on the future as a political idea. Artist DOZIE KANU presents a flyer for higher education, while OPIOID CRISIS LOOKBOOK speculates on semiotics. PETER SAVILLE reviews the mood with JACK SELF, who reviews voice notes, moral killing, and the Star Trek universe. ISABELLE BUCKLOW binge-watches tech demos. SATOSHI FUJIWARA captures law enforcement hardware. 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