Tank, Vol. 11, #9
230 x 300 mm, 320 pages (plus sticker sheet)
London, UK
Quarterly
Published since 1998
Editor-in-chief: Masoud Golsorkhi
Creative director: Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie
‘Moving. Since 1998.’
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 be the version to go for. Tank has taken many forms and continues to carve a distinctive niche in a crowded genre, with its selective themes and intelligent writing. Typically sticker-friendly, recent issues have been uncharacteristically unstickered (not including the logo, which has indeed been manually stuck on) but with a sheet of stickers ready to be applied.
This latest edition of the self-proclaimed ‘heavy-duty culture’ magazine opens with a pensive editorial from Masoud Golsorkhi, remarking on contemporary political movements that ‘simulate the appearance of change’, and the undertones of director Christopher Nolan’s oeuvre that convey a frustration with the ‘philosophical, moral and political dead end’ Western civilisation has halted at. Hence the contrasting theme of this edition: ‘Movement’. Furnished with features including a deep dive into the cosmic plane with philosopher Thomas Nail, a reflection on the crisis facing Palestinian prisoners in Israel by Basil Farraj, and an interview with economist and former Labour Party advisor James Meadway.
On the Journal:
At Work With Masoud Golsorkhi: ‘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.’
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