Real Review #18

The latest issue of our favorite critical magazine. This issue explores our ability to imagine another world and act as if it already exists. “Pretending the World” is about the power of conviction: to create a new reality, we first have to believe it is possible. Such gestures are often dismissed as empty posturing, yet this is how social change begins.

Inside: Petro Chekal’s photograph “There Is,” an interview with Meredith Whittaker, and a photo essay and conversation with Alvaro Fernandez-Pulpeiro on the future of oil. Other topics include imagined realities, empire as roleplay, artificial intelligence and the flood of low-quality content, capital, and domestic labour. Sumayya Vally and Shumon Basar discuss the spaces of other worlds, while James Bridle asks whether living outside the system is possible.