Culture

How we live together while old certainties take a break.

Sascha Schulz: Portrait in a patterned shirt
  • Screenprint collage: a café table with two chairs and two cups, speech shapes merging above

    Thinking Is a Public Act

    Trust is falling and news avoidance is settling in. The remedy is not more information but more company: thinking out loud, in rooms with other people in them.

  • Screenprint collage: a gift box whose ribbon unrolls into a long receipt, a gold star on top

    Gifts We Cannot Afford

    Christmas generosity has quietly acquired a credit line. The pressure behind it is not greed but belonging, and it is paid for, increasingly, later.