Lampoon 33 MECCANO Chanel SS26

Size : 242 × 322 mm

hardcover, 424 pages

color, black and white

2026

The latest issue of the Milan-based culture magazine Lampoon. Lampoon Issue 33 "MECCANO"** is a print publication. This issue is organized around conceptual themes such as systems, machinery, and human cognition under the pressure of technology. Furthermore, this issue examines the relationship between artificial intelligence, labor, and cultural production, positioning "thought itself" as an act of resistance in an environment where attention is increasingly optimized and simplified. The editorial framework is composed of contributions that cross domains such as architecture, art, and theory and performance. Key topics include the algorithmic impact on information, diagrammatic thinking as a political and visual tool, and the transformation of authorship in machine-assisted production. A multi-layered set of references is presented, ranging from theoretical perspectives to practical design, photography, and physical expression. Contributors include Romain Laprade, who addresses post-Brutalist architecture in Uzbekistan, OMA/AMO, who addresses diagrammatic structures, Goshka Macuga, who explores systemic processes, Clara Hastrup, who addresses illusion and construction, Mat Maitland, who addresses AI-generated images, and Yuko Mohri, who addresses the interaction between mechanical systems and the environment. In addition, a special feature on the body and prosthetics includes Xiao Yang, who explores post-human body images, Hugh Herr, who researches biomechatronics, and Andrea Lanfri and Corrado Polzoni, who treat bionic structures as material systems. Furthermore, Ohad Naharin presents a perspective on movement that views the body as a non-linear system through the GAGA method. In his introduction, Editor-in-Chief Carlo Mazzoni quotes Umberto Eco and Miuccia Prada, positioning cultural production as a process rooted in "learning, analysis, and critical observation." This book is structured as a complex composition in which text, images, and diagrams function in parallel, each serving as an independent yet mutually complementary means of expression.