Lampoon 33 MECCANO Xiao Yang

Size : 242 × 322 mm

hardcover, 424 pages

color, black and white

2026

The latest issue of Lampoon, a culture magazine from Milan. Lampoon Issue 33 "MECCANO"** is a print publication. This issue is structured around conceptual themes such as systems, machines, and human cognition under the pressure of technology. Furthermore, this issue explores the relationship between artificial intelligence, labor, and cultural production, positioning "thought itself" as an act of resistance in an environment of increasing optimization and simplification of attention. The editorial framework is composed of contributions that span architecture, art, theory, and performance. Key topics include the algorithmic influence on information, diagrammatic thinking as a political and visual tool, and the transformation of authorship in machine-assisted creation. Multi-layered references unfold, from theoretical perspectives to practical design, photography, and physical expression. Contributors include Romain Laprade, who deals with post-brutalist architecture in Uzbekistan, OMA/AMO, who deals with diagrammatic structures, Goshka Macuga, who explores systemic processes, Clara Hastrup, who focuses on illusion and construction, Mat Maitland, who deals with AI-generated images, and Yuko Mohri, who deals with the interaction between mechanical systems and the environment. 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. Ohad Naharin also presents a movement perspective that views the body as a nonlinear system through the GAGA method. 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." This book is structured as a complex composition where text, images, and diagrams function in parallel, each being independent yet mutually complementary means of expression.