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BOOKS
Shine Between Being and Seeming

Costume Jewelry as Cultural Dynamism and a Coded Image of Modernity
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Cover of the TASCHEN book Costume Jewelry, featuring colorful vintage brooches including a jeweled octopus, a parrot with a green stone, cherries, a fish, and a hand-shaped pendant.

With remarkable visual force, “Costume Jewelry” stages the history of American costume jewelry. At the same time, ideas of freedom, style, and social ascent become visible. What is most compelling is...

BOOKS
Machine and Myth

How TASCHEN Creates a Monument to Speed with Ferrari
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Ferrari XL book by Pino Allievi published by TASCHEN

A book like an engine block: cool, gleaming, precise. “Ferrari XL” does not only want to tell a story but to embody one. It is less a declaration of love than a monument – a testament to the idea of...

Commentary
The Pose of Enlightenment

How Moral Awareness Became Aesthetics — and Why Wokeness Lost Its Depth
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Minimalist photograph of bright blue water with a single yellow rubber duck floating near the lower right — a calm yet ironic reflection on surface and meaning.

Wokeness was once an awakening; today it serves as a backdrop. The line between moral gesture and aesthetic reflex, between attitude and staging, has almost vanished. What remains when awareness...

Commentary
When greatness turns into weakness

Why Adobe risks suffocating in its own power
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Abstract blurred grid of colorful squares symbolizing the fading era of creative software.

For a long time, Adobe was synonymous with creative software. But now progress is turning against its creator: while generative AI democratizes the means of production, the company is struggling with...

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