032c #19

"I have become a mere recording angel," states WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN in this issue's 40-page dossier on the American author's pursuit to understand the tyrannical world; meanwhile, Pierre Alexandre de Looz activates the secret Vogue history of CY TWOMBLY photographed by Horst P. Horst; publisher LORD GEORGE WEIDENFELD divulges the historical foundation of the global networking imperative; architect ARNO BRANDLHUBER asks how we can build architecture in the form of a discussion; artist MATTHEW BARNEY previews the Detroit chapter of his opera Ancient Evenings; designer RICK OWENS talks about the discrete, the lurid, and the total aesthetic; director Paul Schrader and king of disco Giorgio Moroder crystallize 30 years of AMERICAN GIGOLO; artist ANDRO WEKUA stares us down with a 21st-century scenography; ALASDAIR MCLELLAN showcases LARA, DIANA, COCO, SIGRID, CAMERON, ISABELI, LILY, AGYNESS, and DREE; DANIEL SANNWALD captures a postdigital surrealism in "Aftershock Pompeii"; DANKO STEINER stages a transatlantic cabaret with ANJA, CARMEN, HANNELORE, MISSY, NATASA, and PATRICIA; the new 032c SELECT presents the best of this season's books, products, and ideas; and so much more on 284 pages...