Simulacrum Vol. 32, #4
125 x 280 mm, 84 pages
Amsterdam, Netherlands (Dutch and English-language)
Quarterly
Editors: Anna Odink, Merthe Voorhoeve and Naomi van Kleef
Netherlands-based arts and culture publication Simulacrum explores a different theme with every issue. Platforming topics from both historical and contemporary perspectives, their features are written by both established experts and up-and-coming writers (student writers are welcome here).
Formerly petite, recent issues have seen the magazine reshaped into a new tall and slim format, held together with a pleasingly-thick rubber band. This time, that tall, slim body is a gentle pink. On the theme, TOUCH, the team write:
‘Our entire lives are mediated by touch, led by a haptic sensibility. But once you try to capture it in words, it disappears. Is touch tangible? Is it really there? Touch implies reaching out, often ending up as an incomplete gesture. As philosopher Erin Manning argues: "to reach toward an other is never more (or less) than the act of reaching, for an other cannot be discovered as such.’