“Our vision is continually active, continually holding things in a circle around itself.” Photographer Emily Lipson and fashion editor Delphine Danhier collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
From sacred hot springs to the Esalen Institute, where does the ‘mystical-type experience’ emerge in Big Sur? For Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, Angie Sijun Lou reflects on how self-optimization and psychedelic liberation are shaping life in Northern California
Music YATTA premieres ‘MTV,’ their music-video remix of suburbia For Document, the musician and artist gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview on the multivalent universe of faith, pop, and experimentation contained within their newest record,...
Art Mike Kelley’s final paintings are character studies of the lost self In this portfolio of never-before-exhibited images from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, the late artist reveals fractured lines of humor, submission, and solitude
At Large When post-irony renders real and fake indistinguishable, irreverence becomes a political weapon Tracing the line from Ancient Greece to David Foster Wallace to the bullet through Trump’s ear, this essay for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 asks if... by Maya Kotomori At Large Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content This essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue traverses arthouse cinema, Shein, and streaming to explore how the ‘technical image’ is changing the nature of meaning-making by Caroline Busta At Large Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us Inside the cult of TESCREALism and the dangerous fantasies of Silicon Valley’s self-appointed demigods, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Camille Sojit Pejcha At Large Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’ Document asked 15 critics to turn philosopher Roland Barthes’s 1950s magazine column on its head for its Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Document Journal At Large Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections Inside the multiplayer virtual world of furries, glitchy landscapes, and digital slumlords, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Alice Bucknell At Large The sincere glamor of Candy Darling For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist and trans starlet’s divahood is reconsidered five decades after her passing by Grace Byron At Large Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California For Document’s Fall/Winter 23, writer Daniel Gumbiner explores life, death, and industry in the state’s largest necropolis by Daniel Gumbiner At Large Resisting simulations of the self For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels by McKenzie Wark At Large B-girls shoulder the history of breaking Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue profiles the women at the forefront of breakdancing as it makes its way to the Olympic floor by Ann Binlot At Large Constance Debré on dirty freedoms For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the novelist muses on love and power across the prison window’s glass by Constance Debré At Large The sacrament of the secondhand Amid the crowds of the kilo sale, Shahidha Bari bears witness to the perennial art of passing down and picking up by Shahidha Bari At Large Chasing the mirage of the “future city” From Futurama to The Line, Mohamed Elshahed points to the failed promise of the smart metropolis, where yesterday’s dreams make up tomorrow’s nightmares by Mohamed Elshahed At Large The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality Untethered from drugs, apps, and shoes, Christina Catherine Martinez charts a journey of physical and psychological undress to Mexico’s only nude beach by Christina Catherine Martinez At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Oliver Brown dissects how physical reality defines social interaction, from escalators to web browsers and the metaverse by Oliver Bown At Large Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off by Rachel Rabbit White At Large Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist by Drew Zeiba At Large Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of... by Joshua Citarella At Large New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it by Rahel Aima At Large 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 by Morgan Becker At Large 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 by McKenzie Wark
At Large When post-irony renders real and fake indistinguishable, irreverence becomes a political weapon Tracing the line from Ancient Greece to David Foster Wallace to the bullet through Trump’s ear, this essay for Document Journal’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 asks if... by Maya Kotomori
At Large Hallucinating sense in the era of infinity-content This essay for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue traverses arthouse cinema, Shein, and streaming to explore how the ‘technical image’ is changing the nature of meaning-making by Caroline Busta
At Large Techno-futurists are selling an interplanetary paradise for the posthuman generation—they just forgot about the rest of us Inside the cult of TESCREALism and the dangerous fantasies of Silicon Valley’s self-appointed demigods, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Camille Sojit Pejcha
At Large Confronting emerging mythologies from the striptease to gang wars to ‘The Sims’ Document asked 15 critics to turn philosopher Roland Barthes’s 1950s magazine column on its head for its Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Document Journal
At Large Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections Inside the multiplayer virtual world of furries, glitchy landscapes, and digital slumlords, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue by Alice Bucknell
At Large The sincere glamor of Candy Darling For Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue, the artist and trans starlet’s divahood is reconsidered five decades after her passing by Grace Byron
At Large Living among the City of the Dead in Colma, California For Document’s Fall/Winter 23, writer Daniel Gumbiner explores life, death, and industry in the state’s largest necropolis by Daniel Gumbiner
At Large Resisting simulations of the self For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, McKenzie Wark grapples with society’s love for identity-making, imagining a future free from flags or labels by McKenzie Wark
At Large B-girls shoulder the history of breaking Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue profiles the women at the forefront of breakdancing as it makes its way to the Olympic floor by Ann Binlot
At Large Constance Debré on dirty freedoms For Document’s Fall/Winter 2023 issue, the novelist muses on love and power across the prison window’s glass by Constance Debré
At Large The sacrament of the secondhand Amid the crowds of the kilo sale, Shahidha Bari bears witness to the perennial art of passing down and picking up by Shahidha Bari
At Large Chasing the mirage of the “future city” From Futurama to The Line, Mohamed Elshahed points to the failed promise of the smart metropolis, where yesterday’s dreams make up tomorrow’s nightmares by Mohamed Elshahed
At Large The thrills and perils of raw-dogging reality Untethered from drugs, apps, and shoes, Christina Catherine Martinez charts a journey of physical and psychological undress to Mexico’s only nude beach by Christina Catherine Martinez
At Large The seductive promise of finding home on the homepage For Document’s Spring/Summer 2023 issue, Oliver Brown dissects how physical reality defines social interaction, from escalators to web browsers and the metaverse by Oliver Bown
At Large Between illusion and the studied art of the tease, strip clubs are the last bastion of the American Dream Rachel Rabbit White explores the strip club's enduring fantasy of social and sexual upward mobility, both on-stage and off by Rachel Rabbit White
At Large Behind crumbling highways and ghost towns lies the mythological freedom of the American road Is the walkability-car divide another front in the so-called ‘culture wars’? Drew Zeiba explores the online proliferation of the new urbanist by Drew Zeiba
At Large Raw eggs, pink pills, and embodied identity: Online communities create their own proof in a vacuum of truth Radical Liberal Online Activists and Right Wing Bodybuilders represent two poles of the political spectrum—but they are are each a product of the waning of... by Joshua Citarella
At Large New York was killing me: Seeking community in the city of cultural saturation For Document’s tenth anniversary, Rahel Aima reflects on what New York gave to her, and why she left it by Rahel Aima
At Large 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 by Morgan Becker
At Large 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 by McKenzie Wark