THE-ICONOMIST© is a post-digital artist’s magazine and research project. Founded in 2021.

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Memoryscape, a speculative short story by THE-ICONOMIST, investigates the collapse between memory, technology, and subjectivity. A narrator navigates feeds, notifications, algorithms, and system failures in search of himself, finding only residues: echoes, noises, and fragments of a life mediated by devices. Between archived dreams, captcha identities, and emotions translated into data, the book constructs a 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

F IS FOR FRAGILITY (OF DIGITAL IMAGES). When data is corrupted, the image also takes on a new life. They have lost their original functions, their sharpness, and often any possibility of literal reading. What remains are fragments, noises, spectra. In December 2024, one of our hard drives containing thousands of reference images and project ti_zine_fragility

28 July 2025, 11:20 AM [PROSE] A DRESS GREW ITSELF894 WORDS, READING TIME: 4m58s [read]

[INPUT] I TOOK A PHOTO AND I FORGOT TO FEEL.pdf2025, research for upcoming project, 35p., 1080×1920 each [view]