Journal of Dreams 6: Shopping

Announcing the launch of Shopping, the sixth issue of the Journal of Dreams. This issue investigates Shopping as an important frontier for dreaming today, as it increasingly blends physical and virtual sensations and experiences, folds desire within commodity, personal expression within mass market trends.

Walking into a department store today almost feels nostalgic, as if visiting confused and disheveled remnants of spaces whose golden age is long past, vessels for dreams of a bygone era. Taking its place, online shopping is further removing the dream from objects and experiences, abstracting them as interfaces and cutouts devoid of context, shadow or materiality. Furthermore, the permeance of advertising and race for global marketshare, profitability per square foot, and followers on social media has made the shopping experience loud, homogeneous and meaningless.

Featuring dreamy contributions by Monica Belevan, Roland Caracostea, Annette Condello, Fulvio Ferrari, Kirby Fowle, Nicholas Gervasi, Kemper Hyers, Flavia Masson, Phillip Nelson, Rodica Prato, Yehuda Safran, Heber Sanchez, and Katie Vitale.

56 pages • color • includes 3D glasses • printed in NY • October 2018