“Everything has to be reconstructed every day, every hour, every moment in my own brain and in the brain of the other.” “Metaphors for the mind”
THE-ICONOMIST©
Friday, 4 July 2025, 01:17:12
“Everything has to be reconstructed every day, every hour, every moment in my own brain and in the brain of the other.” “Metaphors for the mind”
THE-ICONOMIST is a third generation research project, an artist’s magazine and observatory founded in 2021.
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Nº 6 — To consume/To wasteNº 5 — To watch/To speculateNº 4 — To ask/To answerNº 3 — To catalogueNº 2 — To wearNº 1 — To collect
“Taking its name from economist Gilson Schwartz’s 2006 neologism ‘Iconomy’ while also nodding to longstanding news weekly The Economist, THE-ICONOMIST questions our relationship with images in this era of image saturation with each issue using verbs as its themes.” — MAGCULTURE
“THE-ICONOMIST’s latest issue is hectic and “suffocating” in its use of online image banks. The magazine has never really operated within the requirements of a conventional magazine. This isn’t just because the issues don’t have any advertisements or an ISBN number, or even that it doesn’t have a website that can be indexed by Google. … its-nice-that-quote
GEN3_”In the contemporary context, where we live under the dominance of an incessant, global flow of digital images, THE-ICONOMIST© appropriates, reconfigures, and presents this visual universe, creating a space for pause, reflection, and critique.”
B IS BATHROOM_This zine is a continuation of our series started with the publication “Kitchen 9×9” and presents a narrative of images related to the most intimate place in a house and all its peculiarities.
POINT OF NO RETURN_”Every-little-thing that brought us here. At first glance, nothing makes sense. A whirlwind of shapes, materials, and disconnected functions. It’s necessary to stop. Look. Listen. It’s necessary to see with attention. Is this everything we’ve produced so far?”