Cose Journal – Issue 02: Desk

Cose Journal is a new independent publication striving to spark reflection on everyday objects and their different uses through a variety of vehicles for creative expression.

COSE Journal II focuses on the desk, the surface on which human training and research take place. It is a personal, intimate space of solitude and study that reflects perfectly our habits, needs, and peculiarities. The analysis will focus on the space of the desk in its entirety but also on all the objects that inhabit it; pens, pencils, paper, computers, chargers, books, calculators, scotch tape, stapler, erasers, post-its, etc.

Modern objects find themselves thrown into a large, dangerously indistinct mass, linked to the subject by apparently feeble and impersonal relationships. We can react to the desemantisation of the object by continuing to exercise our capacity for affection and prioritisation.

In a society driven by overconsumption and compulsive buying, in an era where it is impossible not to notice the aftermath of our purchases, paying attention to what we buy and how we buy it has become an ethical and political statement. The only way to reassess our understanding of freedom is to cultivate a new type of bond with the things around us, whether human or non-human.

Cose Journal is edited by Gilda Bruno, an Italian-born arts and culture writer, editor and photographer currently based in London.

Contributors

VISUALS
Clover Green & Hana Al-Sayed Polly Brown Federico Torra Micah Lexier Arale Reartes Jacques Brun & Giulia Querenghi Lara Angelil & Maya Angeli Matthieu Lavanchy & Camille Tricoire & Lune Kuipers Xavier Casanueva & Sophia Crema Crista Leonard &Valerie Steenhaut & Naomi Miller Ivo Sekulovski & Sebastian Palomares & Alberto Dapporto Sophie Tajan & Nicolas Mur & Antía Bellas Pita Lauren Bradford & Sarah Pritchard & Aroa Puente Erwann Petersen Ellisse Studio & Vito Salamone

WORDS
Andres Anza Kalpana Arias Gilda Bruno Matteo & Allina Corbellini Davide Coppo Peggy Kuiper Joycelyn Longdon Sophie Mackintosh Laura Misch, Torbjørn Rødland Luis Sendino Ilaria Sponda Sophie Lou Jacobsen

2024
192 pages
23 x 30 cm

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Language: English