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 Freud and 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 — as … 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
Faceless Things (2005)Kyung-mook Kim (b. 1985) David Bordwell wrote:Warnings about gay sadomasochism to the contrary, this doesn’t offer much you can’t see in Warhol or Waters. What it does provide is three shots. The first, nearly 45 minutes long, provides virtually a one-act play about a motel tryst between a businessman and his teenage lover. The … Kyung-mook Kim, <em>Faceless Things (2005)</em>
Memoryscape, a speculative tale by THE-ICONOMIST, is a plunge into the collapse between memory and technology. A narrator drifts through feeds, notifications, algorithms, and system glitches in search of himself, but finds only echoes, noise, and screenshots of a life mediated by devices. Between buffered dreams, captcha identities, and emotions translated into data, the book … memoryscape_2025
“We always think of the imagination as the faculty that forms images. On the contrary, it deforms what we perceive; it is, above all, the faculty that frees us from immediate images and changes them. … Imagination is essentially open and elusive. We could say that a stable and completely realized image clips the wings … gaston-bachelard_imagination