2023 / Uk

Real Review is “what it means to live today”. Real Review assesses contemporary culture. Real Review looks backwards to look forwards. Real Review appears timely and timeless. Real Review interrogates the current mood. Real Review deconstructs everyday norms. Real Review reviews reality.

Issue 15—PHANTOM OF LIBERTY

It isn’t the representation of violence in the Gaza Strip that is so disturbing; it is the absence of representation. The grief and despair of a child is penetratingly real. The extreme realism of these events has now driven a wedge between our realities, material and social. The scale and speed of this suffering has destroyed our ability to sustain any belief in the symbolic values of “the international community” and “human rights”. We can no longer even pretend these ideas correlate to any form of reality. This issue of Real Review is dedicated to the current mood, the Phantom of Liberty.

English, published quarterly
104 pages, 6/12 x 16 cm, Softback