Document Journal Spring/Summer 2024: New Mythologies

For our 24th issue, we ask, what are the new mythologies that develop when we begin to challenge the status quo? How do myths in the past and present illuminate the meaning of the world around us? In an age of unparalleled access to information, technology has the ability to bestow unlimited access to knowledge and culture at our fingertips and artistic forms are mutating in unexpected ways.

With Isabelle Huppert, Erykah Badu, Michèle Lamy, Viggo Mortensen, Tyler Mitchell, Maya Hawke, Colin Dodgson, Robbie Spencer, Kelela, Bill T. Jones, Jean Paul Gaultier, Simone Rocha, Alice Godard, Paul Kooiker, Clarissa Dalrymple, David Velasco, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Jacques Vallée, Mia Khalifa, Daniel Roseberry, Hank Willis Thomas, Bruce LaBruce, Jeffrey J. Kripal, Kim Gordon, Collier Schorr, Suffo Moncloa, Melanie + Ramon, Markn, Nikolai von Bismarck, Mark Steinmetz, Marcus Schaefer, Xavier Scott Marshall, Luca Khouri, Davit Giorgadze, Théo de Gueltzl, Sam Penn, Charlotte Stouvenot, and Joshua Woods.

And featuring Roland Barthes’s “Mythologies” revisited with 15 critics including Chris Kraus, Natasha Stagg, and Trevor Paglen; Candy Darling 50 years after her passing; the mythmaking of Silicon Valley; exoplanetary Prada artifacts; hallucinating meaning in the era of technical images with Caroline Busta; the hidden archive of George Platt Lynes; and more across over 600 pages.