Colin McDowell casts a historical eye on the vagaries and caprices of fashion FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES: an effervescent industry, predicated on impermanence.WESTMINSTER BUBBLE: the UK Parliament’s vote on Syria is only the latest example of its reality-distorting provincialism.TOIL AND TROUBLE: how art can create alternative spaces of resistance within the market logic of the globalised world.WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS: economist Mariana Mazzucato on the “creative destruction” initiated by technological innovation and the brazen “destructive creation” of speculative finance.Yet as Peter Lang argues, these transparent experiments can be as claustrophobic as they are progressive THE BIG BUBBLY: inflatable architecture seems to speak of optimism.SPHERES OF DESTINY: bubbles are the key to understanding how life on this planet evolved.With collapsing trust in global governance, zones and enclaves have come to embody utopian aspirations for the future of statehood. BUBBLE MENTALITY: the intrigue of political experiments.Kai Friese makes his way into the German philosopher’s globalised glasshouse DOUBLE BUBBLE: reading Sloterdijk in New Delhi.PETER SLOTERDIJK: A very brief introduction to the prolific philosopher of spheres.« Back to the latest issue The Bubbles Issue, Spring 2016 | Issue 66
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