Tank, Vol. 10, #19
230 x 300 mm, 306 pages
London, UK
Published since 1988
Editor-in-chief: Masoud Golsorkhi
Creative director: Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
Editor: Thomas Roueché
'Just the ticket. Since 1988'
As Wikipedia dutifully points out, this publication is ‘not to be confused with Tank, the magazine of the Royal Tank Regiment.’ If it's contemporary culture, fashion, art, architecture, technology and politics you're looking for, this would certainly be the version to go for.
Tank has taken many forms and continues to carve a distinctive niche in a crowded genre. Of late, issues have arrived hand-covered in stickers (with more to be found inside).
This issue, for Spring 2024, is 'informed and inspired by Immediacy, or The Style of Too-Late Capitalism (2024), a dazzling new book by the American academic Anna Kornbluh. Short in pagination and vertiginous in intellectual reach, Kornbluh’s analysis of our current cultural condition as dominated by speed of circulation and absence of mediation, is at once devastating and empowering.'
To read editor-in-chief Masoud Golsorkhi's full length editor's letter from the issue, including another heartfelt ode to Palestine, click here.
On the Journal:
‘I am not sure if we are academically rigorous. We don’t aim to be academic, we mean to approach fashion as a serious topic in and amongst other serious and interesting ideas. I guess the form of address implies a reader of a certain discernment, education and intellectual aspiration.’ – Masoud Golsorkhi Read more