Issue 18
Improbable
Issue 18
Unlikely futures envisioned in the past that never became a present. Improbable situations that, beating the odds, became the most tangible reality. Ambitious, grandiose and experimental, all these dreams and schemes radically challenged their present and envisioned a new future. They outlined principles for collective ambitions, defining new physical, political, economic and social organizations. Whether realized or not, these proposals hold valuable lessons for our present and future.
This issue explores the desires, ambitions and consequences of these unrealized futures, as well as the factors that drove the success or realization of unlikely proposals.
Issue statement by Iker Gil and Paul Mougey, editor in chief and editor of MAS Context respectively
Text and chronology by Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik
Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl, Elina Karanastasi, and Nikos Skoutelis based on a text by Nikos Skoutelis
Short Essay by Tom James with photography by Theo Simpson
Text and images by Luís Santiago Baptista
Text and photographs by Lisa Hirmer
You are One Lucky Son of a Bitch
Short Essay by Sparkle Hayter
Essay by Evangelina Guerra Luján
Netopias: Premonitions of Past Futures
Essay by Eva Papamargariti and Vassiliki-Maria Plavou
Exit Strategy: From Improbable to Impossible
Essay by David Karle
Beyond Index and Over the Limit: Gasping for Air in the Megacities of Asia
Essay by Martin Abbott
Short Essay by Mike Peart
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Project by Jordan Geiger
Hallucinatory joyrides through one hundred and twenty-five asynchronous Chicagos envisioned by Alexander Trevi