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ISSUE Nº 10To happen/To unhappen Following Reality Check, an exploration of expectation, belief, and the fragmentation of reality into multiple, often conflicting perspectives, System of Situations takes the images from the previous issue as its starting point and throws them into a new set of circumstances. Through collage, these images collide with a myriad of … the-iconomist_10_system_of_situations
ISSUE Nº 9To believe/To discredit The ninth issue of THE-ICONOMIST, titled Reality-Check, explores the fragmentation of shared reality in an era of continuous image circulation. Moving from a relatively common visual culture toward a polyculture of personalized information, the issue reflects on how images no longer simply represent the world, but increasingly anticipate, organize, and … the_iconomist_9_reality_check
This zine brings together images captured by Google Street View along the entire route of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school parade during the 2015 Carnival in Marquês de Sapucaí, Rio de Janeiro. That year’s theme, Um encontro marcado no tempo (A rendezvous marked in time), paid tribute to carnival designer Clóvis Bornay. Here, however, … zine_carnival_capture
RE:1999 presents a series of rephotographs taken from a Brazilian weekly magazine published in November 1999, on the threshold of the new millennium. The title works as a prefix: re, as in remake, resee, remember, rephotograph. As if each image carried its own attempt to return in time, to reproduce the instant and observe what … zine_1999
1×1 is a meeting place for images. Every moment, two appear—one on the left, one on the right—and form a momentary relationship before disappearing. Nothing repeats itself. The work moves on its own, even without the visitor’s gesture, as if it were breathing. The images cannot be saved, only seen: they remain in the time … play_1x1
Nº 8 — AFTER-IMAGE. The eighth issue of THE-ICONOMIST, titled To propose / To recreate, takes as its point of departure Édouard Glissant’s notion of the aprèzan: the present as a living interval between destruction and regeneration. From this idea unfolds a reflection on what it means to create in an era where images multiply … the_iconomist_issue_8_to_propose
WHY WAR? starts from the question posed in the letter Why War?, exchanged between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in 1932: why does war persist, even in the face of all the rationality we have supposedly achieved? The images gathered here do not aim to illustrate the history of conflicts, but to reveal their permanence … whywar_2025
This zine gathers images of waiting rooms, those quiet, interchangeable spaces where time folds in on itself. Each chair, each fluorescent light, each artificial plant performs the same choreography of stillness. Nothing happens, and yet everything is about to. The people who pass through leave no trace except the faint echo of anticipation, the weight … zine_inthewaitingroom
XXXSpace shares with Thomas Pynchon’s novel the intuition that military technology is never limited to its military function. In the universe of the book, the V-2 missile is both an object of mathematical precision and an erotic and mystical fetish, an “arc” that crosses the sky as a symbol of desire and death. The zine … zine_xxxspace
News from Switzerland: THE.ICONOMIST #issue7 and the zine F is for FRAGILITY were shortlisted for the Rosmarie Tissi Award in graphic design in the MA-g (Museum of Avant-garde) Awards. These publications will now become part of the institution’s contemporary collection.