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Issue 13 — Contemporary Mythologies

 

Men have always needed to believe in something. It is what gives an order to the chaos of existence. Having outgrown traditional religions, in favour of increasingly widespread atheism, new forms of belief are emerging, that similarly dominate our lives. That’s what we mean by contemporary mythologies. Some are positive reference points that guide our lives, while others become real cages. At a time when there seems to be nothing left to believe in, what are the myths we still cling to?

 

Contributors: Giada Biaggi, Leone Balduzzi, Claudio Biazzetti, Luca A. Caizzi, Tommaso Caldera, Kennedi Carter, Piergiorgio Caserini, Chat GPT, DALL•E 2, Eimear Lynch, Nicolas Haeni, Naomi Kelechi Di Meo, Luca Massaro, Maria Livia Pappagallo, Marco Piccardi, Ana Santl Andersen, Robin Sara Stauder.

 

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C 41 Magazine is a Milan-based magazine of contemporary visual art from all over the world. We’re interested in lifestyle, fashion, design, outdoors, and creative communities. Through our viewers’ lenses, we tell the stories. C-41 is a chromogenic colour print film developing process. Also well-known as CN-16 by Fuji, CNK-4 by Konica, and AP-70 by AGFA, it’s the most popular film process in use, with the most photofinishing labs devoting at least one machine to this development process.