The art of cruising in the post-digital age
From screens to streets: Drew Zeiba outlines the resurgence of anonymous sex in the city
Living at Xanadu: Ten writers muse on Joan Didion’s literary legacy
Cynthia Zarin, Ira Silverberg, Fariha Róisín, and others reflect on the reach of the iconic American voice
A war vocabulary: Displaced Ukrainians share fragmented stories of loss, trauma, and absurdity
“In a time of war, beauty becomes dangerous. Beautiful things, people, relationships—nowadays they don’t exist to inspire. They exist to be annihilated.”
Mapping a modern trans bohemia in the borough of the flesh
From Greenpoint to Flatbush, McKenzie Wark outlines community on the margins of straight life
Slab City, California: The artistic outpost where outsiders find home
Photographer Laurence Ellis captures creative community on the fringes for Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue
Eric N. Mack reconsiders the dimensions of visual art
For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the artist speaks on how he’s translating his South Bronx informed textile practice to the context of the Italian...
New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us?
Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large
The alienation and fantasy of modern femininity
Safy-Hallan Farah examines the performance of womanhood in the attention economy, with the Real Housewives as case study
The myth of the lone creative genius
From Steve Jobs to Albert Einstein, it’s an appealing notion that brilliant individuals are behind the world’s most significant creative breakthroughs. But is it true?
From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature
In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future
Dispatches from a nonbeliever
Larissa Pham details her quest for the divine
Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures
Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui
Adriana Cuenca’s new film is a rich, diaristic journey through Myanmar
As we travel through the nation’s expansive landscape, we are given a glimpse into the daily life of its people
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyberpunk magazine that gave us a glimpse of the utopian future that never was
The magazine's founder R.U. Sirius talks with Claire L. Evans about internet culture's psychedelic early days and its clusterfuck present
Dior fine jewelry designer Victoire de Castellane takes us inside her technicolor dreamworld
The former 'bourgeois punk' on how she incorporated tie-dye in her latest collection
The politics of pleasure: Is there a place for partying in the revolution?
In pursuit of this question, Michelle Lhooq takes Document inside Seattle’s autonomous zone and through the history of protest
The battle over the visual language of counterculture, from Dada to the digital age
Transgressive design has been defined by the provocative, cut-and-paste aesthetics of punk. Now, a new face of counterculture has emerged.
Saved by the rave: British youth are reclaiming public land to party, even during a pandemic
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the outdoor free parties where communitarian spirit rages on
Fish, Pole: on crises, change, and the American condition
On the eve of the 2020 Presidential Election, writer Brian Blanchfield considers change in the absence of divine intervention
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar god who boosted hard rock into a neon future
The late rock legend is best remembered for his searing guitar solos—but Eddie Van Halen's most genius creative moment was one that horrified fans, rock...
Andrew Yang joins Document to discuss political polarization, universal basic income, and America’s future
The former presidential hopeful on lessons learned from the campaign trail
In the Australian outback, a vision of our uncertain future
Anangu have lived in the Australian deserts for millennia, but rising temperatures threaten to make the region inhospitable to humans
Vietnam’s “plastic village” is the tale of Western excess
For Document's Spring/Summer 2020 issue, photographer Laurence Ellis traveled to Australia, Zambia, and Vietnam to investigate what might become of the planet
A new law seeks to expose the NYPD’s secret surveillance technology
A closer look at New York City's landmark POST Act—a law the NYPD and Bill de Blasio spent three years trying to quash
From virtual Lolitas to extreme sex, deepfake porn is blurring the lines of consent and reality
Exploring the dark, liberating, and potentially catastrophic future of technology's freakiest frontier
Is lab-grown the new grass-fed? A glimpse into the ethical future of meat
From climate change to public health, synthetic meat is going to change our world
How do we memorialize America’s gun violence epidemic if we can’t yet see its end?
“The question of how to memorialize an ongoing epidemic is a fraught one, particularly at a time when mass shootings have become such a common...
The blurred faces—and ethics—of protest photography
Amid revelations of the NYPD’s biometric surveillance programs, photojournalists are forced to reconsider photography in public space.
Re-centering the Black experience in the horror genre, from ‘Beloved’ to ‘Get Out’
“Black history is black horror”: scholars and creators Tananarive Due, John Jennings, and Robin R. Means Coleman probe the future of horror—with an eye to...
Portrait of Warren, Ohio—a microcosm of the Rust Belt struggle
Trumbull County was a Democratic stronghold before it flipped for Trump in 2016
frog design’s Moon scooters are one giant ‘LEAP’ for transportation
For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, the worldwide design firm imagines three products for life on the Moon.
No need for mooncakes on the Moon
For Document's Fall/Winter 2019 lunar portfolio, Shanghai-based architecture duo Neri&Hu offer a meditation on humanity's need for nostalgia.
Why the Moon should operate on a ‘Hotel California’ principle
‘You can check out but you can't leave.’ Critic and sociologist Steve Fuller makes the case in this installment of Document's imagining of lunar life...
What will we drive on the moon? Lexus shows Document the future
For Document Fall/Winter 2019, we called upon culture's brightest minds to envision lunar life. Here are Lexus's seven proposals for luxury space travel.
10 extraordinary creators imagine life on the Moon in Document’s ‘Lunar Portfolio’
Lexus, Nike, OMA, DJ Honey Dijon, and more share their visions for what our future among the stars might hold in this portfolio for Document's...
Their lands, our future: photographing the resiliency and innovation in the Zambian floodplains
Laurence Ellis documents the Barotseland region for Document's Fall/Winter 2019 issue.
The hysteria-inducing, swashbuckling adventurers behind Louis Vuitton’s most well-traveled trunks
From Douglas Fairbanks, the eccentric, old Hollywood celebrity to Casanova orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, discover whirlwind lives of the original Louis Vuitton carriers.
Dive into the waters of ‘Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing’
We revisit the oddball ’70s magazine, which counted Debbie Harry and Mick Jagger among its cover stars, for Document Fall/Winter 2019
Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later
Peaches, Liz Johnson Artur, the infamous Berghain bouncer Sven Marquardt, and others share their memories of an international turning point in Document's F/W 2019 issue.
What it’s like to earn a Master’s degree in the basement of an Amsterdam nightclub
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun's University of the Underground offers a Master's in the Design of Experiences. After the program's first two chaotic years, Ben Hayoun...
Their lands, our future: the indigenous frontline defenders of the Amazon
Photographer Laurence Ellis documents the Loreto region of the Amazon rainforest for Document Fall/Winter 2019.
The new Space Race, and the desperately outdated laws that govern it
With talk of Space Force and Moon colonization, Becky Ferreira explains why it might be time to update our 50 year old space treaty in...
‘The Village Voice’ nurtured New York’s preeminent thinkers—here are their untold stories
Writer Bob Morris reflects on the alternative weekly golden era with Hilton Als, Lynn Yaeger, Michael Musto, and Vince Aletti.
Document spotlights 5 extraordinary people whose work is transporting us from untenable presents to unimagined futures
We hear from Jose Antonio Vargas on immigration, Marion Nestle on food, Damian Woetzel on the arts, Sarah Lewis on images, and Irin Carmon on...
Peter Saville’s fashion apocalypse now
The graphic artist discusses his relationships with Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas and why it’s time to ask the hard questions about the fashion industry.
Andre Walker’s uniquely candid approach to aesthetics basics
Hilton Als captures Andre Walker's ingenious, sensual world in a cross-cultural stream of consciousness.
Fashion’s “new” problem? Moving the needle forward in the age of infinite reference
Is fashion suffering a crisis of originality? We can’t seem to stop talking about who’s stealing from whom but appropriation is a thoroughly old-fashioned practice—the...
Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography
Lynne Tillman and other contributors to Suck magazine look back and analyze the legacy that the transgressive magazine left behind.
