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Perennially popular at the magCulture shop, this ingeniously formatted magazine concerns architecture (and life) in its broadest sense: ‘What it means to live today’. This issue of Real Review is dedicated to ‘the Extinction Burst,’ with Nishant Choksi’s signature cover design, depicting a melting face, reinforcing the message that Western modernity has now reached a point of no return: ‘An extinction burst occurs when bad behaviour intensifies before stopping... Extinction bursts are forms of active denial; refusals to accept the past as gone, and desperate attempts to preserve the potential of an impossible reality. Today, modernity’s worst tendencies return intensified: patriarchy, racism, plutocracy, colonialism, exploitation, rentierism, genocide. Even attempts at redemption, restoration and stasis accelerate the decline.’ On the Journal:Founder Jack Self shares the strategy behind the magazine’s cover designs. READ MORE. real-review.org
