Lampoon 33 MECCANO Romain Laprade

Size : 242 × 322 mm

hardcover, 424 pages

color, black and white

2026

The latest issue of Milan-based culture magazine Lampoon. Lampoon Issue 33 "MECCANO" is a print publication centered on conceptual themes such as systems, machines, and human cognition under technological pressure. The issue explores the relationship between artificial intelligence, labor, and cultural production, positioning "thinking itself" as an act of resistance in an environment of optimized and simplified attention. The editorial framework is composed of contributions across architecture, art, 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 creation. It presents multi-layered references from theoretical perspectives to practical design, photography, and physical expression. Contributors include Romain Laprade, who examines post-Brutalist architecture in Uzbekistan; OMA/AMO, who explore diagrammatic structures; Goshka Macuga, who investigates systemic processes; Clara Hastrup, whose work focuses on illusion and construction; Mat Maitland, who deals with AI-generated images; and Yuko Mohri, who explores the interaction between mechanical systems and the environment. A special feature on the body and prosthetics includes Xiao Yang, who explores posthuman body images; Hugh Herr, who researches biomechatronics; and Andrea Lanfri and Corrado Polzoni, who treat bionic structures as material systems. Ohad Naharin also presents a movement perspective through the GAGA method, viewing the body as a nonlinear system. In his preface, editor-in-chief Carlo Mazzoni quotes Umberto Eco and Miuccia Prada, positioning cultural production as a process rooted in "learning, analysis, and critical observation." The book is structured as a complex composition where text, images, and diagrams function in parallel, each being an independent yet complementary means of expression.