Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo…

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

Becoming the translator rather than the careless exploiter of nature might be the ad­venture of humankind in the years
to come.